Gulliver's Travels

Compare and contrast Gulliver's impression of the Lilliputians with the King of Brobdingnag's impression of Europeans.

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Gulliver finds the Lilliputians to be both foolish and pompous. He sees their laws as unfair and without vision.... meaning, those in power can bend the law to their own purposes, whereas, the general populace must live with the injustice.

The King of Brobdingnag feels much the same way as Gulliver, he sees Europeans, particulary the English, as foolish. He calls the English,"the most pernicious Race of Little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth."

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Gulliver's Travels