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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Swift, Jonathan

Swift, Jonathan
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Character Analyses and Critical Commentary

Character Analyses

Lemuel Gulliver,

The central figure in and narrator of Gulliver's Travels, is a good
natured, hard-working, curious man, but a most ordinary one. He is subjected
to most extraordinary experiences; some of these he understands, some he does
not. When we first meet him, he amuses and bores us with his detailed
accounts of the minutiae of his Lilliputian surroundings. We soon grow to
admire him, however, as he shows himself to be kind, honorable and magnanimous
in his dealings with the ...

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