Question

Read the passage. His Majesty desired I would take some other opportunity of bringing all the rest of his enemy’s ships into his ports. And so unmeasurable is the ambition of princes, that he seemed to think of nothing less than reducing the whole empire of Blefuscu into a province and governing it by a viceroy; of destroying the Big-Endian exiles and compelling that people to break the smaller end of their eggs, by which he would remain sole monarch of the whole world. . . . What is the main idea of this paragraph from Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift?

Answer 1

Answer:

Gulliver believes the emperor is only concerned with ruling the world

Answer 2

The main idea of this paragraph from Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift is to persuade Britons in improving their society. Gulliver also wants the readers to think that they can fight and laugh at people who are evil in everyday of their lives.