write a character sketch of gulliver in about 500 words
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"As for the character-sketch of Gulliver- Gulliver is the lead character in the story –‘The Gulliver’s Travel’. He is born in the middle-class family of Nottinghamshire in London. Gulliver has studied the subject of medicine and further even worked as an apprentice with a surgeon.
Gulliver is portrayed as a smart character and his favourite recreational activity is to watch the people around and observe their activities, reactions, and behaviour. He looks for qualitative people and appreciates them and gets associated with people with some qualitative character. He would easily get involved in the conversations with the working class people and get into them deeply and make connections.
Gulliver is shown to have strong inclination and interest towards languages and customs followed differently at different people. Though at a later stage while travelling around Gulliver loses his trust at people. Gulliver even reflects on the different types of clothes that people wore in different countries and the trends. He mentions of Laputa where no one knew proper tailoring of clothes and hence had to wear ill-fit clothes.
By the end, Gulliver discovers and acknowledges the vanity and shallow nature and race of humans in the society. "