Post on 22-Jan-2018
Also, at another point, the dwarf sticks Gulliver into
a marrowbone, wherehe is forced
to remain until someonepulls him out.
ANALYSIS
Swift prevents us from idealizing the giants by reminding us of their
incapacity to accept Gulliver as a scaled-down version of a
Brobdingnagian. Gulliver alwaysconsidered the Lilliputians as
miniature men, but this is not true of the Brobdingnagians.
Even the King, who is affectionatetowards Gulliver, thinks of him as
rat-like and as a contrivance madeof clockwork. The King discredits
Gulliver and his fellow Englishmen.And, because the King is adamant
toward the English, Swift has a mouthpiece to voice some
of his complaints.
The English, he emphasizes, are contradictory. They "love, fight,
dispute, cheat, and betray.”In general, the Brobdingnagians do not.
Interestingly, the only real "villain" in Brobdingnag is the Queen's jester — a dwarf,, who wedges Gulliver into the
hollow of a bone and dumps him into a large silver bowl of cream.