Structure of Gulliver’s Travels

Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels is divided into four distinct parts, with each section narrating Lemuel Gulliver’s adventures in a strange and remote land:

• Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput
  Gulliver encounters the tiny Lilliputians, whose small size contrasts with their big ambitions and petty political quarrels.

• Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag
  Gulliver finds himself in the land of giants, where he appears as a miniature being and experiences human society from a reversed perspective.

• Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan
  Gulliver visits multiple lands, including the floating island of Laputa (dominated by science and abstract thinking), Balnibarbi (marked by failed experiments), Glubbdubdrib (where he speaks with the dead), Luggnagg (home of the immortal Struldbrugs), and finally Japan.

• Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
  Gulliver arrives in the land of rational horses, the Houyhnhnms, who embody pure reason. In contrast, the degraded, brutish Yahoos reflect the darker side of humanity.