Question

write down character sketch of Gulliver

Answer 1

One cannot fully understand or appreciate Lemuel Gulliver as a character without first understanding that Jonathan Swift was a satirist and this novel is written as a satire of European culture/society, especially England. In the context of being a satirical novel, Gulliver as a character becomes a vehicle for Swift's delivery of satire. I would disagree with the first commenter in that Gulliver is meant to represent the reader of the novel because doing so would entirely undercut the satire and ignores the historical context of Swift's writing. Swift was not interested in writing a silly adventure because in 1703 tensions between England and his native Ireland were very turbulent and, at times, quite violent. Swift, having become quite jaded and cynical himself, set out to draw attention to the flaws of the English socio-political climate and economic policies through satire.