Discuss the various features of life of the Brobdingnagians.

Brobdingnagians are the polar opposites of the Lilliputians. These people are giants and Gulliver is now the tiny one. The King of the Brobdingnagians treats him as he treated the Lilliputians’ ideas and politics - as a joke. Gulliver is very vulnerable here in Brobdingnagia and gets into danger from doing simple things.

The Brobdingnagians serve as a foil to Gulliver in some ways. They serve to show all of the things that Gulliver could have been when he was over at Lilliput. The Brobdingnagians treat Gulliver as a pet and a plaything but never as a person, a man. This contrasted Gulliver’s treatment of the Lilliputians as he always treated them like they were people, despite how untoward they acted. This comparison gives Gulliver a likeable characteristic to him and changes the perception on the type of man he is.