Who narrates Gulliver’s Travels?

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Illustration of Lemuel Gulliver lying on the ground, tied down by tiny Lilliputians, with crowds and small buildings in the background, from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. — Gulliver’s Travels Lemuel Gulliver in Lilliput, illustration from an edition of Jonathan Swift's *Gulliver's Travels*.

Gulliver’s Travels is a first-person narrative told by its protagonist, Lemuel Gulliver.1

Gulliver is a surgeon and sea captain who recounts his four adventures to remote regions of the world in his "own words". Through his perspective, the novel serves as a satire of human nature and 18th-century English customs and politics.231