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The Evolution of GulliverIn Jonathan Swift&8217s Gulliver&8217s Travels, the main character,Gulliver, embarks on numerous journeys bringing him to singularlands and affecting his views of the world around him. Hisresponse to each voyage differ as do his ideas and reactions tothe environment in which he is residing. Gulliver begins hisexpeditions with a actually societal and open behavior while possessinga general acceptance of any newly encountered beings. But by theend of the fourth voyage, Gulliver leans toward a moreanti-social stance which was derived from the hatred anddisgust he has for human beings, the &8220Yahoos. As for the first voyage to Lilliput, Gulliver acts verysociable with all of the different creatures he comes in contactwith. at a time he arrives on the unknown island, he begins toexplore the land around him. After being brought into the city,Gulliver remains subservient towards the pettys by stayingchained up progress his hut without acting out and attemp ting tobreak free which would have most likely been a successfulattempt. This subservience created enough trust of the&8220Man-Mountain by the Lilliputian king that it was declared thathis liberty hath been granted when he could have easily crushedand killed these little people. Gulliver is also very eager tobe able to act with the creatures and this is evident whenin a few weeks he &8220made a great progress in learning theirlanguage (68). He is also quite encouraging and there are twodefinitive cases of Gulliver displaying this helpfulness in thecountry of Lilliput. The first occurs when he obeys the ordersof the king to destroy his opposition&8217s navy and ends upstringing up the navy of Blefuscu rendering them helpless. Thenhe saves the fiery palace by relieving himself onto it,extinguishing the flames. As you can see throughout the firstvoyage, Gulliver was very sociable and friendly to those he camein contact with.An anti-social behavior is then exhibited near the end ofthe last voyage, after he leaves the country of the Houyhnhnms,because of his new shew disgust and hatred for the rest of theworld especially the &8220Yahoos. This is evident almostimmediately when Gulliver first encounters natives on the newisland. Unlike previous encounters with new people, he &8220madewhat haste he could to the shore to quickly retreat from animpromptu meeting (333). His sole purpose after leaving theHouyhnhnm land was &8220to discover some small island uninhabited, heretofore sufficient by his labour to furnish himself with thenecessaries of life, which he would have thought a greaterhappiness than to be first Minister in the politest Court of