1. (Gulliver speaking about the dwarf) “ I was standing on some table, talking with the lords or ladies of the court, and he seldom failed of a smart word or two upon my littleness; against which I could only revenge myself, by calling him brother, challenging him to wrestle, and such repartees as are usual in the mouths of court pages. One day, at dinner, this malicious little cub was so nettled with something I had said to him, that, raising himself upon the frame of her majesty's chair, he took me up, as I was sitting down, not thinking any harm; and let me drop into a large silver bowl of cream, and then ran away as fast as he could.” This quote is significant because of it’s irony. The smallest person, who is much larger than Gulliver,
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Everything is magnetized to him, and he realizes this because the Lilliput said that to him. 4. (Gulliver describing the Brobdingnag in detail when he first sees them) “In the meantime I was not able to forbear groaning and shedding tears, and turning my head towards my sides; letting him know, as well as I could, how cruelly I was hurt by the pressure of his thumb and finger. ” And yet, isn’t this how the Lilliput felt about him? Gulliver has opposite experiences in the two lands because he feels both roles of fear, yet both being different from the majority. 5. (Gulliver describes his disgust with the women) “mole here and there as broad as a trencher, and hairs hanging from it thicker than packthreads, to say nothing farther concerning the rest of their persons. Neither did they at all scruple, while I was by, to discharge what they had drank, to the quantity of at least two hogsheads, in a vessel that held above three tuns. The handsomest among these maids of honour, a pleasant, frolicsome girl of sixteen, would sometimes set me astride upon one of her nipples, with many other tricks, wherein the reader will excuse me for not being over
Everything is magnetized to him, and he realizes this because the Lilliput said that to him. 4. (Gulliver describing the Brobdingnag in detail when he first sees them) “In the meantime I was not able to forbear groaning and shedding tears, and turning my head towards my sides; letting him know, as well as I could, how cruelly I was hurt by the pressure of his thumb and finger. ” And yet, isn’t this how the Lilliput felt about him? Gulliver has opposite experiences in the two lands because he feels both roles of fear, yet both being different from the majority. 5. (Gulliver describes his disgust with the women) “mole here and there as broad as a trencher, and hairs hanging from it thicker than packthreads, to say nothing farther concerning the rest of their persons. Neither did they at all scruple, while I was by, to discharge what they had drank, to the quantity of at least two hogsheads, in a vessel that held above three tuns. The handsomest among these maids of honour, a pleasant, frolicsome girl of sixteen, would sometimes set me astride upon one of her nipples, with many other tricks, wherein the reader will excuse me for not being over