Question

Characters of :- Lemuel Gulliver. Emperor of the Lilliput. Glumdalcitch.

Answer 1

LEMUEL GULLIVER - A married English surgeon, Gulliver wants nothing to do with domestic life and leaves England repeatedly to have adventures in far-off lands. He is resourceful, open-minded, adamant about his own truthfulness, and a remarkably fast learner of new languages. Though Gulliver is glad to return to England after his first three adventures in Lilliput, Brobdingnag and Laputia, his time among the Houyhnhmns permanently darkens Gulliver’s perspective on humankind and he ends the novel disgusted by the society around him and longing for the company of Houyhnhmns.

EMPEROR OF LILLIPUT - Swift is definitely playing with fire with this one: the Lilliputian Emperor represents the King of England at the time of the publication of Gulliver's Travels, George I. George was a strongly pro-Whig king. The King actively persecuted the Tories, hence the whole high heel/low heel thing (discussed in the Lilliputians' "Character Analysis"). The Emperor's vulnerability to manipulation by his ministers, Flimnap and Skyresh Bolgolam, implies that the actual King, George I, is too easily influenced by his favorites.

The Emperor of Lilliput also loves war, and really wants to enslave the people of his neighboring island, Blefuscu. When Gulliver refuses to help him destroy Blefuscu's freedom, the Emperor starts to hate Gulliver. This may be a reference to George I's war with France and Austria over Spanish territories in the War of the Spanish Succession.

Besides satirizing the man's government, Swift gets in a couple of quick jabs at his personal appearance: apparently George I was really unattractive (source: Robert Greenberg, Editor, Gulliver's Travels. New York: Norton, 1961, 13). This makes Gulliver's excessively admiring physical description of the Lilliputian Emperor kind of snippy.



GLUMDALCLITCH - Glumdalclitch is Gulliver's kindly 9-year-old nurse. She carries him about Brobdingnag in a box meant for his protection, sews his clothes, and generally treats him like a pet. A lot of the humor in the Brobdingnag chapters comes from Gulliver's happy return to a kind of babyhood. He is absolutely spoiled with luxury, and doesn't seem to mind being looked after. However, his vulnerability to monkeys and large apples does leave him feeling a bit too vulnerable to be comfortable.



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