The Laputans can be effectively characterized as a group of absentminded intellectuals who live on the floating island of Laputa. Gulliver encounters these people in his third voyage. The Laputans are parodies of theoreticians, who have scant regard for any practical results of their own research, they are so absorbed in their own thoughts that they must be shaken out of their meditations by flappers. These servants walk around with Laputans all day, holding special …showed first 75 words of 709 total…

…showed last 75 words of 709 total…a counterexample to the contemptuous treatment that the other Laputians and Lagadans show Gulliver. Munodi takes Gulliver on a tour of his kingdom, his house and in general is a figure of great personality and common sense. Gulliver is more or less similar to Lord Munodi in that they are both in someway isolated from their community, Gulliver physically away from his home. Munodi, on the other hand, feels isolated from his abstractly fantasizing neighbors