Summary of Gulliver's Travels Part I: A Journey to Lilliput On his first voyage, Gulliver is washed ashore after a shipwreck and awakens to find himself a prisoner of a race of 6-foot-tall people inches (15 cm), inhabitants of the neighboring and rival countries of Lilliput and Blefuscu. After ensuring his good behavior he is assigned a residence in Lilliput and becomes a favorite of the court. This is followed by Gulliver's remarks about the Court of Lilliput, which is intended to satirize the court of the then King George I. After helping the Lilliputians to subjugate their neighbors, the Blefuscudans (by stealing their fleet), but refusing to reduce the country to a province of Lilliput, is accused of treason and sentenced to be blinded. Fortunately, Gulliver escapes to Blefuscu, where he builds a raft and sets sail for a ship he spots on the horizon that takes him home. The feud between the Lilliputians and the Blefuscudans is meant to represent the warring countries between England and France, but the reason for the war is to satirize the feud between Catholics and Protestants.Part II: A Journey to BrobdingnagWhile exploring a new country, Gulliver is aba. ..... middle of paper ......The Houyhnhnm assembly decides that Gulliver, a Yahoo with some semblance of reason, is a danger to their civilization and is expelled. He is then rescued, against his will, by a Portuguese ship which takes him back to his home in England. However, he is unable to reconcile himself to life among the Yahoos; he becomes a recluse, staying in his home, largely avoiding his family, and spending several hours a day talking to the horses in his stables. The book ends with a peroration against Pride that is ironically vainglorious and seems to demonstrate that Gulliver's reason may have changed. Swift's point is that the fundamental difference between humans and Yahoos is largely artificial. However, no definitive answer emerges from the text and critics have been making this point for years.