Lemuel Gulliver, the famous protagonist of Jonathan Smith’s classic
allegorical novel ‘Gulliver's Travels’ might have been so named from a
combination of ‘Gullible’ meaning a simpleton and ‘Traveler, denoting a person
who believed in what he saw or heard and faithfully described it. Published in
1726, the novel was read from the classroom to the cabinet. An allegorical
fiction, the book described Gulliver’s voyages to four remote and strange
regions of the world. In the guise of narrating the adventurous journeys, Swift
took stunning pot shots at Governments, Religion, corruption in high places and
modern human society in general. So you see, corruption is not the exclusive
prerogative of the Indians, nor is it a phenomenon unique to the twenty first
century.
Gulliver in his first journey was imprisoned by the pygmies- the
Liliputians. As one of the conditions for his freedom, the king of Liliput ordered
him to seize the entire naval fleet of their neighbor and enemy nation, Blefuscu,
to preempt an impending intrusion by that country. The two countries were
separated by a canal, about eighty yards wide, with a maximum depth of seven
feet. Needless to remind the readers, the denizens of both the neighboring
countries were about six inches tall and their biggest warship, the size of a
small canoe
The task although not impossible was very difficult. To accomplish it,
Gulliver needed about fifty steel cables with hooks attached to tie the ships,
a suit of clothes to prevent him from getting wet, a pair of sun glasses to
save his eyes from the enemy’s arrows, a pair of diver’s long rubber boots to
swim and wade through water, an ointment to assuage the pain of the arrows of
the enemy’s navy and a knife to sever the anchors of the enemy’s war ships. He
demanded all this articles but they were not available in the whole of Lilliput
.At last Gulliver decided to shop online. It was after a lot of searching and sweating
that he found www.baggout.com as the one stop shop to buy such a variety of
miscellaneous items as he needed, delivered on the shores of Liliput, cash on
delivery, paid of course by the king. Now well armed, Gulliver partly waded and
partly swam through the eight hundred yards to arrive at Blefuscu’s shores.
While the Blefuscudian soldiers watched him in awe, Gulliver tied the hooks to
the holes in the prows of the ships, then took all fifty cables in one hand and
began to pull. But lo and behold! The ships would not move; then he cut the
anchors with the knife and took the cords in one hand and started swimming back
towards Lilliput. The incredulous enemy soldiers started shooting a volley of
arrows. However, Gulliver was well prepared, having already put on the pair of
goggles to protect his eyes and the ointment to assuage the smart of the
arrows. Soon he reached the Lilliput shores
and was awarded the highest civilian honor of Lilliput- the Nardac thanks to http://baggout.com/
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