Gulliver's Travels

                                                    A voyage to Lilliput        Chapter-7 and 8        

Gulliver came to know of an intrigue against him that he had been going on for two months. An intrigue led by Flimnap and Bolgolam had successded in bringing charges of treason and other capital crimes against him. Flimnap and Bolgolam demanded " The most painful and ignominious death " for the ' traitor '. According to some suggestions he deserved to be blinded or starved to death. Gulliver had decided to flee to court of Blefuscu. He managed to escape to Blefuscu where he was received and with royal honour.

Three days after landing in Blefuscu, Gulliver happened to find a boat which he supposed had been lost by some ship in a storm. With great efforts and help of people of Blefuscu he brought boat to the shore and fitted it out for his departure. Meanwhile, Blefuscu' s Emperor was rejecting demands from Lilliput that Gulliver be returned for punishment as a traitor. He proposed Gulliver to stay but he refused. He put some more cattle and sheep of Blefuscu but was not allowed to take along Blefuscudians. On April 13, 1702 Gulliver ary home in England and earned some money by showing his little animals to rich people and by financially selling it. The little animals proved to wool industry of England. He was happy to be reunited with his family. He earned enough money to leave his family in comfortable circumstances before he was prepared to set on the next voyage.

Part 2:  A Voyage to Brobdingnag.           Chapter -1

After two months in England, he again become restless and again on June 20, 1702. The ship was blown by two great storms. After aimless wandering or several months the ship reached an unknown island. Gulliver with his fellow sailors went to ashore. Here, they are pursued by a monster of a man. Gulliver was left behind while other sailors managed to escape. He hid himself in field of corn whose stalks were forty feet high. He was terribly frightful as he saw several huge men getting closer and closer where he was bidding. In this difficulty, he was reminded of Lilliputians whom he had put in a similar predicament. One of the reapers picked him up to examine. As he stand on his palm, he found that he was close to sixty feet above ground. The master of reapers took him to his family and was set as a new curiosity on the table set for the dinner. The family gathered round the table, he could listen them but they could hardly hear him even though he was shouting. During meal the farmer's son, 10 years old picked him up by leg and swung him in the air , a cat three times the size of an ox frightened him and baby snatched up and put his head in his mouth. After dinner the farmer's wife carried Gulliver to rest on a bed twenty yards wide and eight yards high in room which was three hundred feet wide and two hundred feet high and here two rats attacked him and he defended himself with his sword . With great difficulty he conveyed to farmer's wife that he need to discharge his natural function. He was set free in the garden and there hidden behind some books, he relieved himself.

Chapter - 2

The farmer's nine years old daughter took complete care of Gulliver and all of his needs and also taught him her language. They both have because very fond of each other. To her he was " Gridring " (little man and to him she was " Glumdalclitch "( little nurse). Soon, he become an object of neighbour curiosity. The farmer had decided to make money by showing him in town on next market day

 Both Gulliver and his nurse were upset with this but she was badly upset as she was afraid that her father might sell him off money as he had done earlier with another pets of her. Gulliver felt humiliated but consoled himself. His shows proved to be so popular and profitable that he soon made to put up shows everyday. Two months later, he accompanied his master and nurse on a tour of the cities of the kingdom. He was shown in country capital ten times a day to the delighted crowds.

Chapter  - 3

Too many public shows destroyed Gulliver's health. He grew thin and lost his appetite. His master thought that he is about to die, sold him to Queen who paid a good price for him. The king was rather suspicious and had Gulliver examined by three great scholars and scientists ordered to determine what kind of animal he was. One of scholars said it was embryo, the other two disagreed. After long debates they came to the conclusion that he was a ' replum Seakath ", a freak of nature.
The king ordered that arrangements for the for the best possible care of Gulliver, with Glumdalclitch's incharge ship. Along with Gulliver, she too was to live at court. A governess was appointed for her education and was given a personal maid and two servants. A very comfortable box was prepared for Gulliver. He dined everyday with king and queen, sometimes whole family. Whenever he met king, he gave him account of law, religion and education in Europe. His account of affairs in England provoked king to hearty laughter and asked him whether he was a Whig or a Tory. Everything in Brobdingnag conspired against his self - esteem. The Queen's dwarf , finding some one smaller than himself, got a sense of superiority ; he teased and bullied him. Once he dropped Gulliver in a bowl of cream but then dwarf was removed from Queen's service as he proved dangerous for Gulliver. One day, he was attacked by giant wasps. He killed some of them and preserved their stings, which he brought home to England where Gresham College put them on display.

Chapter - 4 

Gulliver describes the geographical position and features of Brobdingnag country. It's a vast tract of land on the north - west part of America. The land is a peninsula cut off from the rest of the continent by 30 mile high mountains topped with active volcanoes. It's surrounded on three sides by oceans but blocked from them by high pointed rocks. Even the lice looks like swine. He was taken to see the chief temple in Brobdingnag. He was impressed by the beauty, strength and enormous size of statutes of God and Emperors cut in marble. He measured a litty finger which had fallen from the statues and found it four and half feet in length. His nurse , farmer's daughter picked up the finger, wrapped it in a handkerchief and carried it home in her pocket to keep among other trinkets. He also saw king's kitchen and started to talk about the huge proportions of its building, it's oven , pots and pans.

Chapter - 5 

He met some frightening accidents in Brobdingnag because of his small size. There was always the danger of being crushed by falling objects of huge bulk, example apple. Once a spaniel grabbed him in his mouth and Carr him to his master. He described to see the maids of honor very closely and explained the ugliness of the body seen too closely. He described the boat and the huge trough filled with water in which he rowed his boat for the entertainment of the court ladies. He recalls how he was once snatched up by a monkey and carried to the top of building nine hundred feet high.

Chapter -6 

The king and queen were extremely nice to him and he tried to please them by employing his skills at making small objects of craft, for instance, a comb from bits of hair from the king's beard and made a purse for Glumdalclitch. The king began to ask Gulliver's questions about his country and learnt in detail about the climate, soil, institution and history of England. He spoke about the houses of Eords, representing aristocracy and wealthy families. Further,he spoke about the men of holy living, other parts of parliament, the house of Commons and about Judicial system in his country. The king listened, took notes but said nothing until the speaker had finished, then king raised doubts raising objections on every point. He asked what kind of education and preparation was received by the Lords and how they are selected, how a commoner fought the election and how qualified the judges were. He calculator and found that the annual expenditure of the government was twice the amount it earned by taxes. He said the English must be quarrelsome people or surrounded by troublesome neighbours and their generals must be richer than the Kings. This is how saw through the corruption of English life and institutions.

Chapter - 7

He thought that his beloved country was treated by the king most injuriously. He even tried to hide frailties and deformities of his political mother ( England ) but he failed. To impress the king, Gulliver told him about gunpowder and it's terribly destructive power. He offered to teach the king how to make it, but the king was horrified at the idea of such a thing. The king considered the inventor of such a substance to be an enemy of mankind and was amazed that such an insect as Gulliver could entertain such inhuman ideas. He commanded Gulliver not to mention it to anyone. Gulliver was disappointed and thought of all those points of European superiority to Brobdingnagians that occurred to him. He describes the content of a book of morality and devotion, much like those in Europe. It dwells in man's compatible and helpless condition. He thought that such complaints were made in Europe too, but were as ill - grounded there as they were in Brobdingnag. The army of Brobdingnag was a citizen' s army, consisting of one lakh seventy -  six thousand men who were well - disciplined and well - trained. 

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