19. 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 always
considered the Lilliputians as
miniature men, but this is not true of
the Brobdingnagians.
20. Even the King, who is affectionate
towards Gulliver, thinks of him as
rat-like and as a contrivance made
of 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.
21. 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.