ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Lilliputians are men six inches in height but possessing all the pretension and self-importance of full-sized men.

Detailed explanation-2: -Geography. Lilliput is said to extend 5, 000 blustrugs, or 12 miles in circumference.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the first one, Gulliver is the only survivor of a shipwreck, and he swims to Lilliput, where he is tied up by people who are less than 6 inches (15 cm) tall.

Detailed explanation-4: -Supposing Gulliver is 1.71 m in height, the average for English males in the eighteenth century, the H of the Lilliputians and the Brobdingnagians can be estimated as 0.143 and 20.52 m, respectively (Table 1).