# Gulliver’s Travels — Character guide

> Key figures in Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift.

- [Lemuel Gulliver](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/characters/lemuel_gulliver.md): Gulliver trained in medicine and navigation, married Mary Burton, and went to sea only after his London practice failed because he refused to cheat his patients. He narrates his voyages with a surgeon's eye for measureme
- [Glumdalclitch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/characters/glumdalclitch.md): In Brobdingnag, where Gulliver is a plaything passed between handlers, Glumdalclitch is the one pair of enormous hands that treats him with steady tenderness. She teaches him their language, sews him clothes, and carries
- [Reldresal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/characters/reldresal.md): Reldresal moves easily between the emperor's chambers and Gulliver's chain, explaining Lilliput's absurd factional wars over egg-breaking and the rivalries that shape court life. He is genuinely fond of Gulliver, yet his
- [Pedro de Mendez](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/characters/pedro_de_mendez.md): After Gulliver has come to loathe the very sight of his own species, Don Pedro is the first human to test that loathing with simple decency, offering clean clothes, a berth, and patient conversation. He neither mocks Gul
- [Skyresh Bolgolam](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/characters/skyresh_bolgolam.md): Bolgolam is a galbet, or high-admiral, whose professional vanity cannot survive the sight of a giant towing an enemy fleet with a hook. He joins Flimnap and the other ministers in drafting articles of impeachment, dressi
- [Flimnap](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/characters/flimnap.md): Flimnap governs the empire's money and its factions with equal dexterity, and he is rumored to have danced on a rope better than any minister in memory. His hostility to Gulliver is personal before it is political: he su
- [Captain William Robinson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/characters/captain_william_robinson.md): English captain who employs Gulliver on a voyage to the East Indies.
- [Mr. James Bates](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/characters/mr_james_bates.md): Gulliver's master and mentor in surgery in London.
- [James Welch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/characters/james_welch.md): Gulliver's cousin and executor of his estate.
- [Captain Pocock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/characters/captain_pocock.md): Captain of the ship on which Gulliver serves as surgeon.

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