Gulliver's Travels Characters. T he main characters in Gulliver’s Travels include Lemuel Gulliver, the emperor of Lilliput, and Gulliver’s Houyhnhnm master.. Lemuel Gulliver is the story’s ...

Gulliver arrives at Lilliput by swimming ashore after a shipwreck. Initially, the Lilliputians treat him as an enemy, tying him down and shooting him with arrows.

In Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver arrives in the land of the Houyhnhnms in May 1711 and departs for home in February "1714–1715," the date being presumably unclear to him.