plot to kill him Gulliver runs away to save his life This shows both rise and fall He becomes great then he falls Giant and Safe Gulliver s second visit is to Brobdingnag Here people are very big Gulliver feels like a toy At first he is afraid Later the king treats him with care He is loved and kept safe Gulliver tells stories about Europe The king hears them and laughs He says English people are cruel He says the majority of Englishmen must be The most pernicious life race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth Gulliver feels small inside He sees that a big size does not mean pride His life is calm here but he wants to leave That is another turning point Flying and Foolish Next Gulliver goes to Laputa It is a flying island The people here are crazy about science They do silly things They try to get sun from cucumbers They try to turn poo into food Here is a quotation from the book to strengthen the point He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers Gulliver sees no real use in their work He is tired and bored He sees that not all knowledge is good His life is safe but his mind is not happy Wise but Lonely In his last visit Gulliver goes to the land of Houyhnhnms These are wise horses They live by reason and peace Gulliver loves them He also sees the Yahoos They are dirty greedy humans He feels shame He sees humans as evil and mad When he comes back home he cannot love people He talks to horses and hates men This is his greatest fall His heart breaks He becomes a lonely man This shows the sad end of his change Back but Broken When Gulliver returns to England he cannot live like before He does not like his family He isolates himself preferring the company of horses When I happened to behold the reflection of my own form in a lake or fountain I turned away my face in horror and detestation of myself This is the final stage of his life His travels brought him both light and dark He was a hero but became a man full of pain and hate In termination Lemuel Gulliver s life is full of ups and downs He becomes great in Lilliput safe in Brobdingnag bored in Laputa and broken in the land of the Houyhnhnms Each place changes his heart In the end he is not the same man He learns a lot but he loses his joy Jonathan Swift uses Gulliver s life to teach us deep lessons