Millstone Education:
World Literature

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Discussion Questions for
Gulliver in Lilliput

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What kind of person is Gulliver?

Why do you think the Lilliputians are reluctant to give Gulliver his freedom?

Why do you think the Lilliput and Blefuscu are willing to fight a war over which end of an egg to break before eating it?

Why do you think the king of Lilliput wants to force Blefuscu to eat eggs the way he does?

Why do you think Gulliver says he will never again "have anything to do with emperors and courtiers, big or little"?