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.