What You’ll Love about… Gulliver’s Travels Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag

P. A. Staynes, Illustration from Gulliver’s Voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Public Domain via archive.org.

In Part II of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver finds himself in Brobdingnag, where most people are about twelve times his size. Gulliver goes from being a giant to being an insect, and it has a profound effect on him. One of Gulliver’s first impulses is to express concern for the Lilliputians from Part I:

I reflected what a mortification it…