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Gullivers Travels Swift’s greatest satire work, Gullivers Travels, is written in 1726, the book has not lost its significance to the present day and can be justly ranked among the best novel of world literature. Plot and Major Characters Written in the form of a travel journal, Gullivers Travels is the fictional account of voyages made by Lemuel Gulliver, a physician who signs on to serve as a ships surgeon when he is unable to provide his family with a sufficient income in London. First voyage---Lilliput（利立普特） On the very first voyage, Gulliver is shipwrecked. Little by little he got used to their life. The king ask him to perish the neighboring state, but he refused. He left Lilliput avoiding being killed. Major themes The first voyage has been interpreted as an allegorical(讽喻的) satire of the political events of the early eighteenth century, a commentary on the moral state of England. The war with the tiny neighboring island represents England‘s rivalry（对抗） between Whigs（辉格党） and Tories（托利党）. Second voyage---Brobdingnag（布罗丁奈格） Gulliver finally escapes Lilliput and returns briefly to England before a second voyage takes him to Brobdingnag. While on shore, Gulliver is captured by giants, each of whom is the size of a . On the whole, the Brobdingnagians are good-natured creatures, and they treat Gulliver kindly, though they are amused by his tiny size and looked upon him as a plaything. Compared with Lilliput, the Brobdingnagians have an enlightened monarch（开明的君主）. She often interrogates（询问） Gulliver on European affairs. Gulliver abruptly departs Brobdingnag when a giant eagle flies off with him and drops him in the ocean. （2 years） Third voyage---Laputa （勒普它岛） He soon embarks on his third voyage to the flying island of Laputa Laputa is a mysterious land inhabited by scientists, magicians, and sorcerers（男巫） who engage in ridiculous experiment. The intellectuals