Gulliver's Travels | Teaching Setting, Symbolism and Objects

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

England - Gulliver lives in Redriff, a small town in this place.

Lilliput - This is the first of all the strange lands and adventures Gulliver encounters and experiences. It is a civilization of people a fraction of the size of human beings.

Mildendo - This place is the capital metropolis of Lilliput, which Gulliver is only privileged occasionally to visit.

Blefuscu - This is the neighboring island of Lilliput and the vouched enemy of the Lilliputians.

Brobdingnag - This is the second land to which Gulliver travels. In the complete...
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