Gulliver’s travel tells the story of how Gulliver ended up on his journey’s to the different islands. The first island he ended up on Lilliput. While in Lilliput Gulliver feels out of place. This was of course expected because he is a giant on an island with little people. Everyday life was harder for him because of this. He even had problems releasing his bodies functions. Because of him being a giant the people of Lilliput are afraid of him. Even though they were worried Gulliver didn’t harm not one of them. Instead of destroying everything they had he tried to make peace and get them to except him. Almost all of the people accepted him. They also made laws so that he would fit in better. Gulliver is so caught up in trying to make them happy he does everything that the emperor tells him to do.
Now that everyone has warmed up to Gulliver the emperor ask him a favor. He ask Gulliver if he would protect them from all their enemies. With Gulliver (The Giant) they would be unstoppable. Gulliver agreed wanting to keep peace and make the emperor happy. Lilliput’s neighbor Blefuscu then tries to attack them. Gulliver did the bare minimum to stop them, nothing extra at all. This is where he angered the emperor of Lilliput. He wanted Gulliver to kill and demolish all of the enemies but he refused. They planned to try and harm Gulliver but his friend gave him a warning. Gulliver then leave before so and goes to Blefuscu. Once he arrives he realized that their emperor is way worse than at Lilliput. Gulliver soon returns back to Lilliput. Everyone is still mad at him but still expects him to always save the day. The princess palace catches fire and then he has to save the day. He does this in an unusual way. He has to pee on the palace to save them. All the people of Lilliput start to trade on Gulliver even though all the good he has done for them. They then discuss punishment for him. Some are very harsh. Gulliver then decides to leave before anything happened and returned to Blefuscu. They then allow him to return to his actual home. He kept a few life stock animals from his journey.
The satire for part one is quite easy. The emperor and powerful people of Lilliput control everything. No matter what Gulliver did it was never good enough. The emperor always found a way to complain about Gulliver’s actions. The emperor just wants all the power just like in history. Power tends to drive a person crazy and make them become a control freak.
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