Swift's Satire of European Culture
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In Jonathan SwiftÆs GulliverÆs Travels, Chapter VII of Part Two provides Lemuel GulliverÆs account of his conversations with the King of the Brobdingnagians. In this account, Gulliver maintains that the King adheres to ônarrow principlesö and holds ôshort viewsö on topics that are viewed more broadly in Europe (Swift II.vii). However, even though Gulliver takes umbrage to many of the KingÆs views, it is Gulliver whose ideas and attitudes come off as ethnocentric in this section from GulliverÆs Travels. Gulliver maintains that the King and his people are secluded from the rest of the world and its cultures, something Lemuel maintains manifests ômany prejudicesö and ônarrowness of thinkingö in the King and the Brobdingnagians (Swift II.vii). However, Swift is using irony and satire in this section, for it is actually Gulliver (i.e. Europeans) who come off as narrow-minded and prejudiced. Gulliver admits in the beginning of this section
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