During Gulliver's first voyage he gets shipwrecked and upon waking up finds himself tied down by a large number of little people. These little people, who are about six inches tall, are called Lilliputians. At first Gulliver was seen as threat and was treated like a prisoner. With time, he becomes accepted by their community and learns about their lifestyle. What brings sorrow to Gulliver is that he begins to see the similarities between his home country of England and the personalities of the Lilliputians. The Lilliputians were very much like England, both were small in size, but capable of defeating a much larger opponent such as Gulliver, who was over ten times their size. The citizens of Lilliput earned their jobs and places in the government by performing tricks on a rope. Swift states, "When a great Office is vacant, either by Death or Disgrace, five or six of those Candidates petition the Emperor to entertain his Majesty and the Court with a Dance on the Rope