ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Lilliputians. The Lilliputians symbolize humankind’s wildly excessive pride in its own puny existence. Swift fully intends the irony of representing the tiniest race visited by Gulliver as by far the most vainglorious and smug, both collectively and individually.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Lilliputians are men six inches in height but possessing all the pretension and self-importance of full-sized men. They are mean and nasty, vicious, morally corrupt, hypocritical and deceitful, jealous and envious, filled with greed and ingratitude-they are, in fact, completely human.

Detailed explanation-3: -The King and Queen are happy with Gulliver, but there is one member of the royal entourage who is not happy: the Queen’s dwarf, who is jealous because Gulliver has replaced him in the Queen’s affection.

Detailed explanation-4: -How do Lilliputians and Brobdingnagians each represent a different way of viewing humanity? Gulliver sees himself as superior to Lilliputians, and distances himself from their human follies. In Brobdingnag, he identifies with and defends that folly.