What is becoming obvious in this part of the satire is that Gulliver begins to view humans as repulsive, as much some of the Brobdingnagan have viewed him. In a conversation with the Brobdingnagan king, where Gulliver delivered as best as possible an explanation of European life. The king is amused by the interactions of such small people with one another:
But, I confess, that after I had been a little too copious in talking of my own beloved country . . . the prejudices of his education prevailed so far, that he could not forbear taking me up in his right hand, and stroking me gently with the other, after an hearty fit of laughing, asked me whether I were a Whig or a Tory. Then turning to his first minister . . . he observed how contemptible
But, I confess, that after I had been a little too copious in talking of my own beloved country . . . the prejudices of his education prevailed so far, that he could not forbear taking me up in his right hand, and stroking me gently with the other, after an hearty fit of laughing, asked me whether I were a Whig or a Tory. Then turning to his first minister . . . he observed how contemptible