"Gulliver's Travels" is a novel by Jonathan Swift, an Irish writer whose writing functions as social criticism. His sarcasm and his habit of blending facts and fiction together made him a great satirist. This particular novel was written in 1726. Swift, born in Dublin, tells a tale of four voyages with imaginary lands serving to highlight different aspects of human nature and society. Lemuel Gulliver is the protagonist in "Gulliver's Travels." He is taken to various, fictional situations where he learns to adapt to the other characters' ways of life and ultimately to survive all of these challenging differences.
             During Gulliver's first travel, he visits "Lilliput." The Lilliputians were a race of people six inches high. Gulliver "mocks the pettiness of the English" during this visit. He becomes a slave but finds a way to escape from his tiny hosts who considered him a threat, as he was a giant to them. On the second voyage, Gulliver encounters the giants of Broldingnag, and he is saved by his patriotism towards England. The third book is called, "A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarni, Luggnagg, Glubbubdrib, and Japan."
             "Before the disastrous fourth voyage began, Gulliver was obviously still pretty much the average man, doing and thinking as average men generally do." (Robert 109) Lemuel Gulliver is a married surgeon chosen to be the captain of a merchant ship on the fourth travel due to his understanding of navigation. The order was to trade with the Indians in the South Sea and make new discoveries. He had fifty hands on board, but twelve of his crew died from immoderate labor and ill food. The rest of his men were in a better condition. Gulliver had to bring the ship to a land where the English had no governance so that he could drop the dead and pick up new crew members without having to face criminal persecutions by the English for the death of his crew. The reason give...