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Lilliput and Blefuscu are two fictional island nations that appear in the first part of the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. The two islands are neighbours in the South Indian Ocean, separated by a channel 800 yards (730 m) wide. Both are inhabited by tiny people who are about one-twelfth the height of ordinary human beings.
There is a brand of small cigar called Lilliput, and a series of collectable model houses known as "Lilliput Lane". The smallest light bulb fitting (5 mm diameter) in the Edison screw series is called the "Lilliput Edison screw".
5 days ago · Gulliver is asked to help defend Lilliput against the empire of Blefuscu, with which Lilliput is at war over which end of an egg should be broken, this being a matter of religious doctrine. Gulliver captures Blefuscu’s naval fleet, thus preventing an invasion, but declines to assist the emperor of Lilliput in conquering Blefuscu.
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by Jonathan Swift. Part One: A Voyage to Lilliput: Chapter 1. Additional Information. Year Published: 1906. Language: English. Country of Origin: Ireland. Source: Swift, Jonathan. (1906). Gulliver's Travels. London; Routledge. Readability: Flesch–Kincaid Level: 10.1. Word Count: 4,003. Genre: Satire. Keywords: fantasy, satire, society. Cite This.
Lilliput is a fictional land of tiny people in the first part of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels. It is a parody of Britain's politics, culture and history, with absurd customs and laws.
Lilliput is the first island Gulliver visits in Gulliver's Travels, where he meets the tiny people who are ruled by a corrupt and petty Emperor. The Lilliputians represent the political divisions and conflicts of Swift's England, such as the Tories and Whigs, the Big-Endians and Little-Endians, and the wars with Blefuscu.
Gulliver’s adventure in Lilliput begins when he wakes after his shipwreck to find himself bound by innumerable tiny threads and addressed by tiny captors who are in awe of him but fiercely protective of their kingdom. They are not afraid to use violence against Gulliver, though their arrows are little more than pinpricks.
