Gulliver's Travels details a sailor's journey to four very different fantastical societies. The first, Lilliput, is populated by miniature people who fight wars over the proper way to break an egg. The second, Brobdingnag, is inhabited by giants who put Gulliver on display as a curiosity. The third consists of a kingdom governed by a king who lives on a floating island; the kingdom also contains an academy of scientists performing futile experiments, such as …showed first 75 words of 446 total…

…showed last 75 words of 446 total…the Houyhnhnms, and the brutish, human-like Yahoos who serve them. During his stay, he is treated like a Yahoo and comes to think of his own European society as being not that different from theirs. He wants to stay with the Houyhnhnms, but he is eventually banished from their company for resembling a Yahoo. Knowing that the ways of his people are flawed and irrational, he finds it very difficult to return home to England.