Gulliver in Lilliput is an extract taken from the popular novel Gulliver s Travels by Jonathan Swift which follows the journey of a surgeon Lemeul Gulliver and captures his experiences from the voyages he undertakes in the form of a prose satire This chapter describes his encounter with the people of Lilliput or the land of little people Gulliver finds himself stranded on an island after the ship he worked upon was destroyed in a storm Upon waking up he found his arms and legs firmly tied to the ground with ropes and was unable to move his body He could feel thin straps all across his body ...