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Gulliver's Travels - Essay

Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver’s Adventure

In the book Gulliver’s Travel (Signet Classics, 1999) author Jonathan Swift talks about Gulliver’s great adventures in four voyages. Lemuel Gulliver is a third son of five; he is well trained surgeon who goes to the seas when his business fails. His father sends him to the College in Cambridge when he was fourteen years old to study diligently and soon he becomes a surgeon’s apprentice under the wing of Dr. James Bates. After working as a surgeon on several ships he marries the wealthy Mrs. Mary Burton. He marries her because of his borrowed finance and soon after the marriage his good friend Bates dies which gives him the idea of returning to work on a ship.
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were strongly fastened on each side to the ground; and my hair, which was long and thick, tied down I the same manner. I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my armpits to my thighs. I could only look upwards, the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended mine eyes. I heard a confused noise about me, but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.” Gulliver is referred to as the "Man-Mountain" by the Lilliputians and is eventually pressed into service by the King in a nonsensical war with the neighboring island of Blefuscu. "The Man-Mountain shall not depart from our dominions, without our license under our great seal and he shall not presume to come into our metropolis, without our express order; at which time the inhabitants shall have two hours warning to keep within their doors.” Gulliver finally escapes Lilliput and returns to England.
In the second voyage, Gulliver travels to Brobdingnag where he was small as Lilliputians. "I ...

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Added: 2/28/2011 05:07:29 PM
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