Description
Gullivers Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver,
a ship’s surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature;
towering over the people and their city, he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god.
However, in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation,
exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. In Laputa, a flying island,
he encounters a society of speculators and projectors who have lost all grip on everyday reality;
while they plan and calculate, their country lies in ruins.
Gulliver’s final voyage takes him to the land of the Houyhnhnms,
gentle horses whom he quickly comes to admire –
in contrast to the Yahoos, filthy bestial creatures who bear a disturbing resemblance to humans.
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