Societies' reflection on human nature as presented in Gulliver's Travels At the end of Book II of Gulliver's Travels, it is very clear that the character of Gulliver is not the same man who wrote the letter at the beginning of the story. In fact, he is not the same man he was in Book I. From the beginning of Gulliver's Travels, Swift creates for us a seemingly competent character and narrator in Gulliver. In his tale we learn how his adventures have changed him and his perception of people, as the central theme of this story is how human nature and reason reflect society. Overall, Gulliver is a very frustrating character to deal with for a number of reasons. For example, it is not stable; this instability as a narrator leads us to question the validity of what Gulliver tells us. This means we have to be on our guard against what he says, and even though he is our guide, we can't follow him everywhere, and that's exactly what Swift wanted. Gulliver is very apologetic for himself and his actions and emotionally involves the reader in the story. Gulliver seems to direct a good deal of hostility towards us, creating a tinge of hostility towards him. Ultimately, Gulliver functions as a narrator because we can relate to him and consequently find him engaging. We too can jump from one emotion to another, but in the long run Swift is not trying to create an everyman. This Gulliver is not a completely allegorical character at all, but as much an individual as the next person. In some ways, Gulliver proves to be more resilient than the average man, managing to survive catastrophic shipwrecks and people so foreign they might as well be aliens. In yet other senses Gulliver is a naive person, devoid of decency and consideration. Gulliver is a completely credible and probable person at the same time and he is precisely the instrument of Swift's satire. In his incredible circumstances, Gulliver proves to be very resourceful and attentive to his surroundings. With this he changes in relation to the places he visits and the events that happen to him during the journey. As a traveler in Lilliput, he is careful in his observations and thorough in his descriptions. Occupied as he is with the surface of things, we see Gulliver's problem of not seeing with his eyes wide open. Gulliver decreases his judgment of the character as he becomes more and more dim-witted as the story progresses. So do we still see him as an all-around good guy? Let's not forget that he gets beaten up while traveling, one of the main reasons for his change of attitude. In Lilliput he seems to be eminently impartial towards the cunning, vengeful and mean-spirited Lilliputians. Literally a giant in their land, Gulliver never takes unfair advantage of his size in his dealings with them. Although they are violent with him, he never reacts. However in Brobdingnag, Gulliver appears Lilliputian in more ways than one. However, its size is a terrible problem. He is often injured, as the king's dwarf takes out his frustrations on Gulliver, but the latter is an improvement on his work as a monster at village fairs. Ultimately, Gulliver has difficulty keeping things together under the strain of repeated attacks on his ego, and in his dealings with the Brobdingnagian king, Gulliver appears as evil and cruel as the Lilliputians themselves. This is his tone when he returns to England, an angry man who thinks of himself as more Brobdingnagian than anything else..