After reading Parts 1 & 2 of Gulliver’s Travels, answer the following questions in this discussion board. Be sure you answer in complete sentences and use at least two (2) quotes from the poem to support each of your answers. Include proper MLA in-text citations.
When visiting the Lilliputians, how does being a giant change Gulliver’s attitude toward himself?
Why are the Lilliputians at war? What is Swift saying about war? About nationalism?
What ideas about religion are satirized during Swift’s visit with the Lilliputians?
How does Gulliver function as a foil to both the Lilliputians and to the Brobdingnagians? What is Swift saying with their different sizes?
How does Swift’s depiction of the Brobdingnagians reflect on ordinary humans? What do you think he is suggesting to us?
