Answer:
It is here where the king makes a connection between the size of Gulliver and other humans and their moral weakness. He Is obviously disgusted at the human thirst for power and at what lengths are we willing to take it:
"The king was struck by horror by the description I had given of those terrible engines, at the proposal I had made. He was amazed how so impotent and groveling an insect as I could entertain such inhuman ideas, and in so familiar a manner as to appear wholly unmoved at all the scenes of blood and desolation, which I had painted as the common effects of those destructive machines."
Explanation:
"Gulliver's Travels", a novel from 1726, is divided in four parts: by Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships by the Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, a full-length prose satire on both human nature and the "travellers' tales". In this novel the theme is moral correctness vs mental or physical strength, and it as a classic of English literature "to vex the world rather than divert it" turning to an immediate universally read success masterpiece.
