Gulliver's Travels: Gulliver and Swift's Separate Personalities In Gulliver's Travels, Swift and his character, Gulliver, have separate personalities. Swift does not express his views through Gulliver, but through the foreign societies and cultures that Gulliver sees (though is unable to put into a critical perspective). Gulliver remarks about the Lilliputians, Brobdingnagians, laputans, Huoyhnhnms, and Yahoos in a straightforward way, reporting on the cultures, rather than analyzing them. Swift thus disguises his allusions to the political and philosophical thoug