ENGL 231 Chapter : Week 8 GT Round 2
15 Mar 2019
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After reading the lecture notes and my classmate"s responses, i now have a better understanding of the reading. Initially, i did not understand why swift made gulliver so huge and the lilliputs so small. However, my classmate brooke helped me understand the importance of the size of the characters. This is swift"s way of using irony and symbolism to represent society in real life. The smaller characters represented the wealthy/aristocratic individuals with all the power and authority. Gulliver"s normalness and size represented the mass population or what we would call today, the middle class. Gulliver also has no say in his own life unlike the lilliputs which is another way swift uses. My classmate james also provided another interesting opinion on the importance of size. His interpretation of gulliver"s size had to do with his ability to see society from a different angle.
