How Does Swift Present Gulliver's Interactions With Glumdalclitch

The ordinary man sat before the behemothic giants in an unknown realm in which he would soon learn his fate. This sounds horrorifying and unimaginable for the average person to go through. In an exeprt from Gulliver´s Travels, by Jonathan Swift, this is exactly what the main cheracter Gulliver faces in his journey of epic proportions. Gulliver´s interactions with various charecters such as Glumdalclitch and the queen aid in the development of a theme of over coming fear.

One way that Gulliver overcomes his fears is with his interactions with Glumdalclitch is his fear of the giants. He overcomes in the story with the help of Glumdalclitch when she shows Gulliver kindness and compassion instead of calling him a freak of nature and trying to kill him. It is obvious that others can also see that Glumdalclitch has shown kindness to him when it states, ¨Glumdalclitch should still continue in her office of tending me, because he observed we had a great affection for each other.¨ This shows that Glumdalclitch´s interactions with Gulliver have helped him over come his fear on the giants. This is one way that Gulliver´s interactions with Glumdalclitch help develop a theme of over coming fear.

Another way that Gulliver overcomes his fears is when he …show more content…
This is shown in the story when the hulking flies bother Gulliver at dinner. He is at first afriad of the flies but then kills them. This is shown in the passage when it states, ¨My remedy was to cut them in pieces with my knife, as they flew in the air, wherein my dexterity was much admired.¨ This reveals that the flies bothering him turned out to be a good thing because his interactions with the queen encouraged him to overcome his fear of the flies because anytime he would kill them the queen admired it. This is how his interactions with the queen aid him in over coming his