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Course Hero Literature Instructor Russell Jaffe explains the main characters in Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels.
| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| Gulliver | Lemuel Gulliver is a ship surgeon from London who visits fantastical lands, and learns about other cultures and his own during his many voyages at sea. Read More |
| Emperor of Lilliput | The tiny monarch turns against Gulliver when Gulliver refuses to do his bidding in war. Read More |
| Glumdalclitch | A Brobdingnagian farmer's daughter takes care of Gulliver during his two years in the country. Read More |
| King of Laputa | The king rules an esoteric people who live on a floating island in the sky. Read More |
| Houyhnhnm Master | A Houyhnhnm takes in Gulliver, educates him about Houyhnhnm society, and roundly criticizes Yahoo ways. Read More |
| Governor of Glubbdubdrib | An island ruler and sorcerer, the governor allows Gulliver to talk to the dead. Read More |
| Ambassador of Blefuscu | The ambassador is sent to negotiate peace with Lilliput and is friendly with Gulliver. |
| James Bates | Bates is the doctor Gulliver apprentices with in his early career. |
| John Biddel | Biddel is captain of the ship that brings Gulliver home from Lilliput and Blefuscu. |
| Mary Burton | Mary is Gulliver's wife, who raises their children while he is at sea. |
| Customs agent | A Japanese customs agent advises Gulliver on the safest way for him to travel with the crew of a Dutch ship to Europe. |
| Don Pedro | Don Pedro captains the Portuguese ship that rescues Gulliver after his time with the Houyhnhnms and convinces Gulliver to go home. |
| Emperor of Blefuscu | The emperor of Lilliput's enemy country offers Gulliver sanctuary when Gulliver is accused of treason in Lilliput. |
| Emperor of Japan | The ruler of Japan allows Gulliver passage back to Europe. |
| Empress of Lilliput | The emperor's wife likes Gulliver until he extinguishes a palace fire by urinating on her rooms. |
| Farmer | A Brobdingnagian giant finds Gulliver and puts him on display for money. |
| Flimnap | The Lilliputian Secretary of the Treasury resents Gulliver and encourages his downfall. |
| King of Brobdingnag | The giant monarch finds Gulliver amusing and never takes him seriously. |
| King of Luggnagg | The king demands that all those who enter his court lick the floor before his throne. |
| Laputan lord | A lord in Laputa arranges Gulliver's passage to Balnibarbi. |
| Lilliputian friend | Gulliver's Lilliputian friend informs him of his treason and describes the plan for his execution. |
| Munodi | A prosperous lord hosts Gulliver when he arrives in Balnibarbi. |
| John Nicholas | The captain sails the Adventure, on which Gulliver serves before he is stranded in Brobdingnag. |
| William Prichard | The captain of the Antelope is lost at sea when Gulliver lands on Lilliput. |
| Projectors | Incompetent scholars who rule in Balnibarbi and are bent on bettering life there. |
| Queen of Brobdingnag | The queen buys Gulliver from a farmer and makes him her pet. |
| Reldresal | Gulliver's friend in the Lilliputian court argues for merciful punishment when Gulliver is accused of treason. |
| William Robinson | Robinson captains the Hopewell, the ship Gulliver travels on to Laputa. |
| Struldbrugs | In each generation a few immortals are born in Luggnagg who age normally and are cursed to an eternity of old age. |
| Thomas Wilcocks | Wilcocks captains the ship that returns Gulliver to England from Brobdingnag. |
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