Islands Visited
The first island Gulliver visited, known for its tiny citizens.
What is Lilliput?
The 6 or 7 inch man with an absurdly decorated sword.
Who is the emperor of Lilliput?
The protagonist of the novel.
Who is Lemuel Gulliver?
The city in which Swift was born and died.
What is Dublin?
What Lilliputians represent humanity's propensity for.
The real island nation that Gulliver visited after his voyage to Laputa.
What is Japan?
The race of the last person Gulliver considers his "master" on his fourth voyage.
What is a Houyhnhnm?
The man who trained Gulliver to be a surgeon.
Who is James Bates?
The job Swift was best known for other than writing.
What is the dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin?
What the Houyhnhnms represent.
What is a truly rational species?
The second island Gulliver visited, known for its giant, yet friendly, citizens.
What is Brobdingnag?
The most reasonable man Gulliver meets in Balnibarbi.
Who is Lord Munodi?
Gulliver's wife and the mother of his children.
Who is Mary Burton Gulliver?
The college Swift attended to become a priest.
What is Trinity College?
What the king of Laputa's refusal to leave his island represents.
What is the out-of-touch nature of government?
The island in which people may be born immortal, a group known as Struldbrugs.
What is Luggnagg?
The "little nurse" that takes care of Gulliver in Brobdingnag.
Who is Glumdalclitch?
The captain of the ship that Gulliver first sets sail upon before the first voyage.
Who is Abraham Pannell?
The English political party which Swift felt himself most aligned to.
What are Tories?
What the government system of Brobdingnag represents.
What is the ability for humans to be reasonable?
The island known for its necromancers that can bring back the spirits of famous historical figures Gulliver speaks to.
What is Glubbdubdrib?
Who is Skyresh Bolgolam?
The editor and publisher of Gulliver's Travels in the novel.
Who is Richard Sympson?
The man who wrote the epitaph for Jonathan Swift.
Who is Jonathan Swift?
What Gulliver's views of the giant Brobdingnagians represents.