Gulliver Character Analysis

Close your eyes for a second and imagine that you can hear hundreds of people’s steps getting closer and closer. You can also feel the sea breeze and something is wrapped around so you can’t move now you open your eyes and turn your head to see what is next to you and you are faced with hundreds of people that are as tiny as your finger. That’s what happened with the character Gulliver in this book. He is the main character in this book, a son of a middle-class family in Nottinghamshire, England and he’s also a doctor with two distinctive gifts. He’s very smart and he enjoys watching and learning from people’s manners and actions. He also likes traveling so in one of his travels he’s caught in a storm that sunk his boat and he ended up in
Although he’s was born in a middle-class family he believes that the noble should have clear differences between the servants. "Golbasto Momarem Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue, most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference) to the extremities of the globe; monarch of all monarchs, taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the centre, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princes of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as the spring, comfortable as the summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter: his most sublime majesty proposes to the man-mountain, lately arrived at our celestial dominions, the following articles, which, by a solemn oath, he shall be obliged to perform." (1.3.9). Living in both islands showed him that power and control also bring greedy, ambition, and evil. For standing in the middle of the classes Gulliver has the ability to observe everything from both sides and to clearly understand the both sides of society that are represented in the book in each island that he goes to as you can see in this quote. “Nothing angered and mortified me so much as the queen's dwarf; who being of the lowest stature that was ever in that country (for I verily think he was not full thirty feet high), became so
“This open bold declaration of mine was so opposite to the schemes and politics of his imperial majesty, that [the Emperor of Lilliput] could never forgive me. He mentioned it in a very artful manner at council, where I was told that some of the wisest appeared, at least by their silence, to be of my opinion; but others, who were my secret enemies, could not forbear some expressions which, by a side-wind, reflected on me. [...] Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.” (1.5.5) He express his opinion saying that the government on his time could be corrupted too easily and how there is always favors between the government to help themselves out or to take them down.
In gulliver’s stories he uses his ability to observe people and how they act to describe and write about his experiences in the different islands that he went to. The writer also used each island to show different aspects of politics and society working his into some social issues and ethics. And for that reason this book brings a lot of thought and imagination to the readers without getting into boring and heavy