CHAPTER
I
INTRODUCTION
1. Background of
choosing the story
This novel tittle “Gulliver’s
Travel” is written by Johnatan Swift, published in 1726. This story telling
about A man named Lemuel Gulliver is a sailor who make a voyage to the stranger
places. He sail with the english ship. One day, he meet a storm in the middle
of his journey. His ship is damaged and he fall a sleep until he is awoke to
the unfimiliar island . When he awake, he has been prisoner by the civilians
who has little size than gulliver, they called liliput. At there he has some
problems to live at there because everything going to be very little from
usual. Gulliver can go home from the island after he help the country of
liliput in war, he meet another english ship. His journey not only stop at that
moment but also he make another journey. Not far from the journey before. he
meet a stranger island again but in this case they need some foods and water,
he looks for that into an island that he do not know before. At there he meets
giants that become his master until gulliver is sold to the king of the
country. he has to entertain the king because gulliver has small size and the
king has bought gulliver . After long time, gulliver want his freedom. He ask
to the king about that and the king send him into another place. He is put into
a box until an eagle bring him into the sea and when he awake, he was in the a
ship again.
from
the story above, the author conduct the character.
2. Objective of The
Study
The primary objective of this
analysis is character of “Gulliver’s travel”. The objective of this study is
done to know the character and the element’s character in this story.
CHAPTER
II
DISCUSSION
1. The Novel of
Gulliver’s travel
A Voyage to
Lilliput
Lemuel Gulliver signed up as a
"surgeon," or ship's doctor, for a voyage through the East Indies in
Asia. Unfortunately for Gulliver, he was shipwrecked. He swam to an unfamiliar
shore and, exhausted by his efforts, went to sleep. When he awoke, he found
himself tied up by a crowd of extremely tiny and well-armed people. Gulliver
was taken prisoner, shipped to the capital, and presented to the king. A cross
between court pet and circus attraction, Gulliver made friends with many of the
courtiers and learnt about the history, society, politics, and economy of
Lilliput. For many years, Lilliput had been at war with another island
calledBlefuscu.
Although he helped Lilliput by
stealing the Blefuscudian navy, Gulliver was resented by many of the king's
courtiers. He eventually heard of a plot to accuse him of treason and sentence
him to be blinded and starved him slowly to death. Frightened by this prospect,
he swam over to Blefuscu and presented himself as a visitor from the
Lilliputian king. The Blefuscudian emperor treated him well, even after a
message from Lilliput demanded his return. An Englishman-sized rowboat washed
up on shore, however, and, taking advantage of the opportunity, Gulliver
leftBlefuscu and Lilliput. He was rescued by a passing English ship and returns
home to England and his family.
A Voyage to
Brobdingnag
Gulliver was only home two months
when he set out on a Voyage to Brobdingnag. After encountering a terrible
storm, Gulliver's ship tookhim to another unfamiliar shore for much-needed food
and water. He went ashore with the landing party but he was abandoned by the
crew when they discovered there are giants living there. Gulliver was captured
by a farmer, who keeping him for amusements. The farmer's daughter,
Glumdalclitch taught Gulliver to speak the language and they become good
friends. Eventually, the farmer sold Gulliver to the Queen of Brobdingnag.
The queen made Gulliver a courtly
diversion and was entertained by his musical talents. Then she showed Gulliver
to the king and the king disbelief that Gulliver was competent in doing
something like whatever people did in his size. Gulliver tried to tell the king
that he had a country which there was people like him and the country had a
government and culture but the king was laughed and he felt that Gulliver story
was laughable and strange. Gulliver wanted to recover his freedom. Gulliver was
taken to the frontier, accompanying the royal couple. Gulliver leaves
Brobdingnag when his box is plucked up by an eagle and dropped into the sea.
Then suddenly Gulliver felt himself in the water. He worried that he would
drown or starve to death, but then felt the box being pulled. He heard a voice
telling him that his box was tied to a ship.
Gulliver began to recover on the
ship, and he tried to tell the sailors the story of his recent journey. He
showed them things he saved from Brobdingnag. He had trouble adjusting to the
sailors’ small size, and he finds himself shouting all the time. When he
reaches home, it takes him some time to grow accustomed to his old life, and
his wife asks him to never go to sea again.
2. The character
analysis
From
this story there are major and minor analysis.
A. Character :
- Lemuel Gulliver
- The king of liliput
- The farmer
- Glumdalclitch
- The king of brobdingnag
- The queen
a.
Major Character
Lemuel Gulliver - The narrator and protagonist of the story. Although
Lemuel Gulliver’s vivid and detailed style of narration makes it clear that he
is intelligent and well educated, his perceptions are naïve and gullible. He
has virtually no emotional life, or at least no awareness of it, and his
comments are strictly factual. Indeed, sometimes his obsession with the facts
of navigation. Gulliver never thinks that it is imposible he encounters are
funny and never makes the satiric connections between the lands he visits and
his own home. As we pick up on things that Gulliver does not notice.
b.
Minor Character
The
emperor - The ruler of Lilliput. Like
all Lilliputians, the emperor is fewer than six inches tall. His power and
majesty impress Gulliver deeply, but to us he appears both laughable and
sinister. Because of his tiny size, his belief that he can control Gulliver
seems silly, but his willingness to execute his subjects for minor reasons of
politics or honor gives him a frightening aspect. He is proud of possessing the
tallest trees and biggest palace in the kingdom, but he is also quite
hospitable, spending a fortune on his captive’s food. The emperor is both a
satire of the autocratic ruler and a strangely serious portrait of political
power.
The
farmer - Gulliver’s first master in
Brobdingnag. The farmer speaks to Gulliver, showing that he is willing to
believe that the relatively tiny Gulliver may be as rational as he himself is,
and treats him with gentleness. However, the farmer puts Gulliver on display
around Brobdingnag, which clearly shows that he would rather profit from his
discovery than converse with him as an equal. His exploitation of Gulliver as a
laborer, which nearly starves Gulliver to death, seems less cruel than
simpleminded. Generally, the farmer represents the average Brobdingnagian of no
great gifts or intelligence, wielding an extraordinary power over Gulliver
simply by virtue of his immense size.
Glumdalclitch
- The farmer’s nine-year-old daughter,
who is forty feet tall. Glumdalclitch becomes Gulliver’s friend and nursemaid,
hanging him to sleep safely in her closet at night and teaching him the
Brobdingnagian language by day. She is skilled at sewing and makes Gulliver
several sets of new clothes, taking delight in dressing him. When the queen
discovers that no one at court is suited to care for Gulliver, she invites
Glumdalclitch to live at court as his sole babysitter, a function she performs
with great seriousness and attentiveness. To Glumdalclitch, Gulliver is
basically a living doll, symbolizing the general status Gulliver has in
Brobdingnag.
The
queen - The queen of Brobdingnag, who is
so delighted by Gulliver’s beauty and charms that she agrees to buy him from
the farmer for 1,000 pieces of gold. Gulliver appreciates her kindness after
the hardships he suffers at the farmer’s and shows his usual fawning love for
royalty by kissing the tip of her little finger when presented before her. She
possesses, in Gulliver’s words, “infinite” wit and humor, though this
description may entail a bit of Gulliver’s characteristic flattery of superiors.
The queen seems genuinely considerate, asking Gulliver whether he would consent
to live at court instead of simply taking him in as a pet and inquiring into
the reasons for his cold good-byes with the farmer. She is by no means a hero,
but simply a pleasant, powerful person.
The
king - The king of Brobdingnag, who, in
contrast to the emperor of Lilliput, seems to be a true intellectual, well
versed in political science among other disciplines. While his wife has an
intimate, friendly relationship with the diminutive visitor, the king’s
relation to Gulliver is limited to serious discussions about the history and
institutions of Gulliver’s native land.
B. The Type of Character
The type of the character in
this story is static (flat). In this story all of the characters
characterization’s is not change (static in their own way).
C. Method of Characterization
The author mixing the method
of characterization, it is telling (directly) and showing (inderectly). The
author telling directly the appearance, the characteristics, and the author’s
comment. Also the author presents name of the characters in action and allow
the reader analyze what kind of person is from their dialogue.
CHAPTER
III
CONCLUSION
In conclusion, we have to know that
there are three points for analyzing character. That is character itself, type
of the character, method of characterization. In character we have two points,
that is major character and minor character. In this story the major character
is Lemuel Gulliver and the minor character are The king of liliput, The farmer,
Glumdalclitch, The king and The queen of brobdingnag. The type of
characteristic is static, because the characterization is not change. Method of
characterization in this strory use telling and showing.
