Gulliver's Travel Quiz Study Guide

Part 1 Analysis Chapter 1 - Gulliver describes his career as a surgeon, learns languages, tired of sea travel, takes a job of Antelope (his final voyage), as sole survivor, he wakes in the Island of Liliput - They bring him meal, tiny people marvelled by amount of meat he eats - He was given drugged drink - transport his body in a giant cart, chained to an abandoned temple (big enough to hold him) - He has no boat, he knows he can crush Lilliputians - their greater number scares him a bit but nonetheless goes with the adventure Chapter 2 - Wakes up in chain, stands up and admires the countryside, despite chaining him, they treat him with hospitality - Some guards attack him - they were given to Gulliver and do whatever with them, he scares them pretending to eat them, - He was given teachers and all - He told the emperor he wishes to be free but the emperor hesitates - 2 officers make an inventory of his pockets - they allow him to keep most of the stuff except knife, pistol and razor - He takes pains to describe desperation to relieve himself - he didn’t deal with his excrements - They clean up his mess of excrements Chapter 3 - Gullivers is shown the dancers who jump on a rope, government officials also play - Top 3 candidates are given silks and special gifts - He invented a game where they perform mock battle on a handkerchief - he finds this to be a bit too dangerous - They find his hat in the seas - He is freed under the condition that - he can’t leave the island without permission, be an ally to the Lilliputians, must help with construction projects - The means by which government jobs are assigned - by going through dangerous tricks have little to do with character or skill, governor seeks to not care about the safety of the commoners seeking employment Chapter 4 - Introduces the Capital city of Mildendo and the emperor’s palace - He is visited by Reldresal - explains the origin of the conflict - came from the way of breaking an egg - traditionally - “all true believers break eggs on their bigger ends”, but a lilliputitian emperor passed a law saying “they can only be broken on their smaller end” outraged big Indians and they have escaped to the kingdom of Blefuscu - leads to a war. - He agrees to help the emperor but finds the conflict to be a bit absurd Chapter 5 - Gulliver designs - using cables and iron bars - a fishing hook, and carries back the entire fleet of army back to Lilliput - emperor gives Gulliver title of Nardack - Emperor doesn’t agree with the idea of the emperor trying to end the entirety of the Blefesku people - Lilliput makes a peace treaty with Blefeksu - He allows Gulliver to make a visit to Blefsku but still remains cold to him - He extinguishes fire by peeing on it - this pisses off the empress- even though he saved her life, because public pee is illegal in Lilliput - she vows revenge on him - The emperor revealed his intention when he said he wanted to overthrow Blefuscu and enslave them - gulliver’s resistance represents a great betrayal Chapter 6 - Lilliputians are in good proportion with their small body - They write diagonally - from corner to corner of page- he thinks this is like ladies in England - Fraud and treason are punished severely - Rewarded for law abiding behavior - Government officials chosen on their moral not ability - Divine idea - Lilliputian idea of God - Children are sent to public nursery - parents allowed to visit 2 times a year - not allowed to show affection - Middle class kids - sent to trade school and low class don’t go to school at all - Gulliver invited to attend a dinner with the emperor and Flipnap also attends - he dislikes gulliver- he complains how feeding gulliver is bankrupting the kingdom - he says Gulliver is having a secret affair - Gulliver’s sense of honor inflinches due to the rumor and public reputation Chapter 7 - He was told that he was sentenced - Flimnap want him executed - he goes to Klefescu where he was invited - His punishment is to be starved to death, - Reldresel believes he is doing Gulliver a favor - it shows their short sightedness Chapter 8 - He spies an overturned boat and with the help of Blefuscu navy - he repairs it - Emperor wants him to stay - The two emperors find him leaving both a good idea, he takes food and tiny animals - He is reluctant to accept help from Belfescu although they offer him help, after 2 days in sea, picked up by the British in sea and returns home. - He says never more to put confidence in princes or ministries Part 2 Analysis Chapter 1 - After 2 months at home, he grows restless and goes to the sea - A massive storm strikes, he is in the island of Brobdingnagians (neighboring Flanflasnic and Lorbrulgrud) - once on land he wonders on his own - he sees the men rowing back as a giant creature chases them in the water - Gulliver flees on the other side and he sees giants, he is spotted by one of the monsters, they are giant humans - He notes the facial imperfections of the giants - he sleeps in the bed of the wife, two rats attack him, kills one and wounds another - The experience is reversed to that of the Lilliputians - he is fearful and vulnerable - He is regretting - he is stranded by his crew mates - He feels anxious, by the cat or become a plaything of the farmers son - He gone from big figure to tiny - he is subject to attention still Chapter 2 - The farmers daughter is fond of Gulliver - he calls her Glumdalclitch - Everyone wants to see him - neighbor suggests that the farmer should charge people to see Gulliver - Realizing how profitable he can be - he takes him to more tours - he is taken to Lorbal glad - he makes 10 public appearances in a single day - Drive to abuse power - part of human nature - Farmer doesn’t care about the wellbeing of Gulliver but his own daughter cares about his well being despite being so young - showing that we can make the choice Chapter 3 - He performs to the point of exhaustion - he is in poor health - Farmer sells him to the queen who is impressed - Gulliver tells the king about his own land - They make him clothes, - He explains about Europe about laws, and religion - king laughs but Gulliver doesn’t see anything - The queen’s dwarf is very jealous of Gulliver getting all the attention - Although he proved he is human - they entertain him that he has his own intellect and can’t believe that he comes from civilized place Chapter 4 - Gulliver explains that Brobdingang is isolated from the rest of the continent by a mountain, the city and the palace are enormous - the country is attached to North America - and the giants have no contact, don’t travel on sea - leads to king’s limited life experience - He travels inside the box, the royal couch is approach it - he describes them as shabby, Chapter 5 - Gulliver talks about some of his almost - death incidents; the dwarf drops a barel of apples on him, he is squashed in a hailstorm, the garden’s dog puts him in his mouth, a kite almost carries him away, on top of all this - queen's maids of honor play with him as if he was a toy - they strip naked and strip him naked, he is repulsed by the sight of their giant breasts - He is taken to witness the execution of a criminal - The queen makes a special pool for him, a giant frog capsizes his boats - Gulliver was force fed by monkey - Glumdulclithc saved him - Gulliver said there are no Monkeys in England - He walks knee-deep to a cow pile, the story amuses the royal court - Favor can’t save him from the forces of nature Chapter 6 - He makes himself a comb for himself from a piece of food, and king’s struble, - He makes a purse using Queen’s hair and gives it to Glumdualclith - He plays spinnete for king - he strikes them with giant stick as he can’t play on the keys - Gulliver explains to the king about revelations, economy and politics of England - the king concludes that - the English must the most pernicious race of little odious vermin - His resourcefulness is on display, he refused to sit on the chair he made from Queen’s hair - with code of honor - King dismisses Gulliver’s value - king seems to unwillingly not recognize that the flaws of the English maybe balanced by virtue Chapter 7 - Gulliver is upset the king holds low opinion of England - despite telling the story - he things he might have represented his country unfairly - Gulliver wants to win the favour of the king and he teaches them how to use gunpowder - the king is very unpleased with something so dangerous and tells Gulliver to never talk about it again - Gulliver explained to the king that he knows very little of politics and does not respect the process and demands of dealing with other nations - he describes that they had issues with militia - Gulliver describes the education for being limited to few subjects - he feels a need to show the king about England and defend it - he comes from civilized society - The concept of voting even threatens his existence - Government is kept simple - short laws and never criticized, all learning is for only practical use, philosophical learning doesn’t exist - emphasis on practicality taken extreme Chapter 8 - After living 2 years in the Kingdom, he hopes to leave - He goes with the king and queen to a royal estate near the sea - Gulliver’s box is stolen by a bird by the shore while the maid is napping - He is dropped in the ocean - he is worried about Gludaclithc for getting punished for losing the Queen’s favorite pet - He feels a toggin on the box, and the men cut him off the box - the men are puzzled when he said just open it - He is in crew of his own size - he tells the captain the stories of Brobdignand and thinks she is crazy - He tells the captain of his swimming house - the captain asks Gulliver is he is a criminal exiled to death at sea - he shows the captain some of his items - he shows the captain a giant tooth of one of the giants - as a token for saving him. the captain encourages him to write his story - he returns home once again - He appreciate the kindness but knows it comes at the expense of humanity to be close to human who are equals - he finds the equals almost unreal - imagines himself larger than he his and other men smaller than they are Part 3 Analysis Chapter 1 - He leaves on a voyage on the east india, pirates rid the ship - He visited a number of uninhabited island, before seeing a floating island, so large it blocks the sun - Floating island - Laputa Chapter 2 - Concerned with studying mathematics and music - They wore robes with music and math figure drawn on the - They have people who slap them with flappers to show them when to speak or listen - They live in poorly constructed houses with no one right angle - Tailor takes his measures and brings him an ill fitted suit - They are afraid of earth’s destruction by a comet - They thought hum how to measure the comets - He says he doesn\t need flappers to know when to speak - Laputans are very impractical - too philosophical - complicate matters Chapter 3 - Gulliver explains Laputa is perfect circle - with complex magnets and engineering makes it flowing - on top of the island of Barnabarbie - The capital - Lagato is located on Barnabarbie- but by law king and his sons must stay on Laputa - he travels through Laputa - He can block sunlight and rain from cities who are uncooperative, repelling cities can use magnets to prevent him , king is held in check by his ministry Chapter 4 After 2 months of Laputa, he grows bored, as his knowledge of mathematics is limited, he socializes with women and servants - He befriends most ignorant and dumb person in the court - he has no head for numbers or music - he helps Gullver to arrange a visit to Barnabarbie - In barnabarbie, he befriends, another lord called Newnordi - Gulliver notices ramshackles around the building in the city - he told that some people went to Laputa and gained some knowledge - Projectors rebuilt the whole country - the projects aren't quite complete - radical changes without understanding their effects - He doesn’t feel equal actually Chapter 5 - Gulliver visits the academy, and finds them working on their experiments - The experiments are not logical - One of them was working to extract sunlight from cucumbers, another one works to reduce to human excrement to it’s original food. A blind projector and his blind projectors mix colours for paintersbased on touch and smell - When he has cough he visits a doctor who cures him by using bellows to draw gas out through the anus - killing the dog in the process - Another one has built a word projector - A math teacher feeds students papers with formulas written on them - Abstract knowledge over practical knowledge, although Gulliver is pleased but Chapter 6 - Gulliver visits Laputan school of politics - he judges the professors to be “wholly out of senses” - Proposal includes - making the public good as minister, choosing workers based on qualification, rewarding merits/values - He likes the doctor who proposes that ministers and senators be assigned physicians that there humor is balanced, same doctor proposes that inflicting minor physical injury as memory aid, he also proposes brain transplant to facilitate political argument - He wishes to return to England considering their impracticality - Gulliver is shown the plans to uncover plots - including how to read into every letter of paper and finding meaning in it - clearly not a good way to govern Chapter 7 - Gulliver arranges to leave Balnarbarbie, and sails to the neighboring island of Glubbdubdrib - the island of sorcerers and magicians - They bring back dead people from history and make them servants - he greets the Governor And tells him his account - He spends 10 days in the island - he is no longer scared of spirits - tenth day - governor calls him up to call people from history - he calls Alexander the great, bompei, Hannibal, caesar, to see the world before him - He said it is impossible to express the satisfaction in his own mind to the reader - learnt alot from the conversations with the dead Chapter 8 - His conversations continue - he calls Homer, and other philosophical people - he is surprised that HIstorians misled the world and use history for their own purposes - he says “how low of an opinion I had of human Wisdom, when I was truly informed of the springs and motives” - As he talks to people from modern history - he was very disgusted, he is surprised how much of the history he read were fabricated and lies - writers twist their observation - He sees how many powerful people ascended through power - through nefarious means - how many innocent people condemned to death or punished - This experience leaves him with low opinion of humans - All accounts of history are subjective Chapter 9 - He travels from Guldrubdrib to Lagnag - and identifies himself as a Dutch - so he can be allowed to travel to Japan - He is invited to king’s court - but he is asked to crawl on the floor and lick the dust as he approaches the crown - he must also strike his head on the floor 7 times - He must also say words he was thought to the king - translated to May your celestial majesty outlive the sun and moon - Gulliver has been honored to a clean floor as many people aren’t given clean floor - he uses translator - After ceremony is complete - the King invites him for dining - he lives in Lugnag for 3 months - The king expects absolute conformity, he abuses his power by requiring anyone who seeks audience with him to be punished by the floor which is deliberately made dirtier Chapter 10 - He finds his host - polite and honest - He decided to stay when he learn about Struldbrugs (people born with marks on their foreheads) - signifying their immortality - They observe the comets and the moon and stars - He discovers that immortality - actually age as normal humans but can’t die condemned instead to an eternity of sickness - After this revelation - he decides he wants to go home - Lagangs learn from Struldbrugs that death is an endpoint to suffering - avoidance of death is terrific Chapter 11 - He leaves Lapnag to Japan, and pretends to be Dutch as they are the only Europeans allowed in Japan - He secures passage to port town - he suspects that he might not be Dutch but still says he will pass his favor to the King of Lapnag - He joined a ship's crew bound to Amsterdam, he comes back to his home - he accessed Japan through deception - He was treated by kindness and respect by the Japanese in contrast to the Dutch who might kill him if they discover his true identity Part 4 Analysis Chapter 1 - After 5 months at home - he accept to voyage - he is the captain - Many crewmates get sick or die and they have to be replaced, his new crewmates leave him in the middle of an island - abandoned - He finds creatures who are human like - but with claws and hairy - They chase him but disperse when 2 horses arrive - they seem to reason and speak a language Gulliver doesn’t understand - He makes out the word Yahoo and Huoyhnhnms Chapter 2 - Gulliver is introduced to additional members - the master restraints 3 of the creatures who attacked him - He sees that Yahoos are used for manual labor - like pulling sledges - He fears the horses might think he is also a Yahoo and treat him like the Yahoos - they are not the dominant creatures - He is offered food - roots the Huoyhnhnms eat or rancid meat for the Yahoos, he discovers that Huoyhnhnms keep milk for cows - at dinner he makes cake out of oats he only eats this for the 3 years he lives there - His clothing and language is the only thing that keeps his - Huoyhnhnms don’t know that the clothes are not actually part of his body Chapter 3 - After few weeks of study, he learns the Houyhnhnm language - The master is eager to learn Gulliver’s history - he asks Gulliver many questions - he tells the master about his ship, and his country Huoyhnhnms master believes Gulliver is a Yahoo - but he is very perplexed with Gulliver’s ability to speak, reason and learn Gulliver reveals the secret of his clothing to the master who saw him sleeping naked His civilized life protects him - he explains to the master his origins, he explains his race of Yahoos run entire continents Gulliver’s disgust by the Yahoos shows his preference for the trappings of civilization he doesn’t fit in entirely Chapter 4 - The Houyhnhnms don’t understand the concept of doubt and disbelief - intentional deception- they think deception beats the purpose of communication - He tells them that Yahoos like himself rule in his country and Houyhnhnms are treated as horses - they are treated as well by upper class and treated low by the low class - He explains how horses are trained from birth - the master is offended by the treatment particularly by the method of castrating young male horses - The master Houyhnhnms questions how a race so inferior rule over the Houyhnhnms - Physical strength plays a role in establishing power Chapter 5 - Guliver presents the history of Europe to his master - Gulliver always ends up doing this - and inevitably lives under a leader - He says that the cause of war is usually - the differences of opinions often smaller details - wars may start because of quarrels of monarch - countries weakened by famine, draught are subject to invasions - Strong are sometimes invaded because the monarch simply wants the land even if this means betraying an ally - He describes the weaponry and the master makes him stop talking - Gulliver explains the English legal system - and talks about how laws can be used - he describes the lawyer to be lacking moral fiber and intelligence, the Houyhnhnm master is revolted by the description of the guns - they don;t understand the concept of war and don’t battle with one another - The Houyhnhnm is offended with the Europeans making war as they now appear to be no better than the Yahoos but worse since they posses reason - the Houyhnhnm master believes creatures who possess reason should not be treating each other so violently Chapter 6 - He tells the master about money - how it is used to buy goods,it benefits the wealthy - He also explains disease - Gulliver associated sickness with over consumption of food, drinks, sex,he explains how they are treated, he also amidst that living amongst Houyhnhnms never gets you sick - Finally, he explains how the English government works - ministers are chosen based on their social connections - often marriage, sometimes by betraying their predecessor, sometimes because of their support of opposition or leader - Houyhnhnms don’t have understandings of the ills of the English - lack concept of corruption - These factors make the world of Houyhnhnm - utopia - free from inequality - fully ideal society - this is why the human world is rooted din inequity and in wealth - Poor are forced to life of crime - Houyhnhnm adheres to the principle of friendship and benevolence but replaces the values of familial and romantic love Chapter 7 - He thins the human state is inferior to that of the Houyhnhnm - he vows to never return to the human world - Master asses the physical and character weakness of the human - although they dress and appear different - they are similar to Yahoos - he describes how the Yahoos fight over meat and colored stones - and Yahoos give all their physical appetites free reigns - They have a rudimentary system of governance - which the master believes to be similar to the system Gulliver has described - he condemns the lack of value and reason - he thinks Gulliver presented the accounts as much rosier than Europe truly is - Gulliver’s disillusionment of humanity has been building - he became frustrated with the deception of government - his opinion of humanity has become low Chapter 8 - Gulliver spends time among the Yahoos to learn about them - he talks about their physical similarities, he brings along one of the horse masters to protect him as they are quite hostile towards him - He learns hey are physically agile - unwillingly to learn stems from disposition towards resistance rather than their intellect defect - He finally accepts his status as a yahoo - while bathing in the river, a young female yahoo jumps at him from the back he screams for dear life, the Houyhnhnm saved him - Gulliver admires how the Houyhnhnm are governed by entirely reasons - they treat each other with friendship - Marriages were arranged to produce well balanced offspring - upper class couple limit their breeding to 2 children while the lower class were allowed up to 3 children - with no parent displaying special attachment to their breeding - both male and female children received equal education - they celebrate their physical strength by participating in athletics 4 times a year - Yahoos do absolutely do nothing to improve - although the have intelligence - they don’t use it - He accepts the fact that of the Yahoo female deemed him for mating he must be a Yahoo - Houyhnhnm celebrate the body and mind in equal measure Chapter 9 - Gulliver attends a big assembly of the Houyhnhnms whether to exterminate the Yahoos from their island entirely - The speakers argue that the Yahoos would destroy their livestock, buildings if they weren’t constantly watched - - - The Yahoos also breed very prodigiously that the Houyhnhnm worry that they might overrun the island The master presents Gulliver as a Yahoo potential worth and proposes they don’t kill the population at once, instead proposes that they castrate the young males like humans in Europe do with the horses The meantime the Houyhnhnm can breed donkey’s to take over the Yahoos labor assembly agrees to this plan - they also tell the master something he doesn’t agree to right away Houyhnhnms have no written language but excel in poetics - they als have no word to describe evil and express negatives and terms associated with the Yahoos They have developed medicine to treat injuries - they live between 70 years - they are aware of death and they spend the last days visiting friends A Houyhnhnm female has apologized to the master who is late because her husband was dying earlier - and were discussing plans for burial with her servants Houyhnhnms never treat anyone outside of their own kind same - Yahoos didn’t have a chance of being nothing other than animals Chapter 10 - Gulliver stays in the house of the Houyhnhnm master - which are built in the Houyhnhnm fashion - and feels his knowledge expands as he interacts with the masters friends - Gulliver is so ruptured in this life that he is thinking negatively about his own family and friends- he attempts to adopt he Houyhnhnm manner of speaking and gesture - and working to fit in - One morning, Houyhnhnm master comes to Gulliver and he is told that the general assembly is offended by the presence of Gulliver in his house - he was told to live with the Yahoos or leave - Gulliver collapses at emotional challenge of this news - he decides to build a small boat to travel back home - it took him 2 months and aided by the servants, he leaves the island crushed - He exhibits self-loathing of his own body - he feels offended by his people and country Chapter 11 - Gulliver starts his journey, trying to find an island he can live in solitude - he is near the Cape of Hope - he lands in New Holand - modern south Africa - he is encountered by the natives and he retrieves in search for a new place - he encounters a Portuguese ship - some crewmen board in hs ship ad he finds them hiding from him - They are confused by Gullivers use of the Houyhnhnm language and his clothing of animal clothing from the island - Gulliver explains his circumstances to them in Portuguese - they offer to take him to the Capital of Lisbon - Gulliver agrees and take him to the captain- they restrain him after a crewman catches him trying to jump overboard - Captain asks him about his attempt and Gulliver explains and the captain accepts apology and honesty - Captain convinces Gulliver to return to his family in England - the kindness of the captain touches him a little - his family greet him warmly but he has little tolerance for them and prefers the company of the horses to his family - the human race is not his thing anymore - his self-loathing of his race continues even after they kicked him out Chapter 12 - He swears to the truth of his story - saying he would rather present facts - He believes a travelers goal is to educate his readers - he thinks another travel logs don’t adhere to the truth - By british law - he is required to report his discoveries to the government - but he is reluctant to do so - he thinks it is impossible to defeat the brugdibnabs and rather have the Houyhnhnm colonize europe - He also opposes the idea of one sovereign nation governing over another - After a while, he lets his wife sit next to him and he is annoyed by her Yahoo odor - but slowly he is becoming tolerant to them - He absolutely is disgusted by any Yahoo who has pride - He also criticizes colonization - he is not willing his own country to take over another - it clashes with his principle - colonization as the ultimate expression of pride - when they have nothing to be proud of - He believes his culture of Yahoo have little to offer others Plot Analysis Narrator - Lemuel Gullivor Rising action - founds himself in the Island of Laluput, he then flees to Blafescu then returns home to England Another journey - brobdignad - lives in 2 heroin years in brogradnian court, bird takes the box he is and drops it in the sea Sets on another voyage - floating island of Laputa - founds projectors, men briefly educated in Laputa, with wacky experiments and scientific theories - Travels to the sister island below barnababy, Glabdagrdrib - governor uses magic to talk dead people from history Moves to lagnug - learners mortality is unending old age Then return to England via Japan and Dutch Climax - Go to another Island call - Houynhnms & primitive Yahoos (hates his own Yahoos), he learns he can live with his own Yahoos, but prefer the company of the horses Characters 6 creative characters; - Surgeon - Taken prisoner by the Lilliputians - A pet to the Brobdingnagians 1. Emperor of Lilliput - Treats Gulliver well as long as he shows respect, expects obedience 2. Glumdalclitch - Farm girl who is his caretaker - little nurse 3. King of Lamputa - Obsessed with the abstract contemplations of thought - Abuses power - monarch 4. Houyhnhmm master - Kindness - Critical of Gulliver’s kind 5. Governor of Glubbdubdrib - Necormancer - Shows Gulliver hospitality - lets Gulliver talk to dead people from history Boat 1 - Antelope Boat 2 - Adventure Boat 3 - Hopewell - william Ronbinson Boat 4 - Adventure