From gulliver's travels: is there any relationship between the physical size of the lilliputians and the way swift wants us to e

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Oksana_A [137]

3 years ago

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From gulliver's travels: is there any relationship between the physical size of the lilliputians and the way swift wants us to e

valuate their behavior?does their size symbolize some other kind of "smallness"?

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Lelechka [254] · Answer 1 · 2022-07-04T01:33:52+03:00

Lelechka [254]3 years ago

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Your answer is:

No.

The Iilliputians are very "large" and powerful in this story! They even imprisonate big, strong Gulliver! Swift presents a sort of oxymoron in this story as the Iilliputians are physically pint-sized but mentally gigantic!

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