compare and contrast between Gulliver travel book 1 and book 2 ?
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Explanation:
In both Parts 1 and 2 of Gulliver's Travels, the essential metaphor Swift uses to make his satirical points involves physical size. In Lilliput, Gulliver is a giant among the "natives," and in Brobdingnag, he is a midget. The cultures in which he finds himself are grotesque by our standards because of this dimensional aspect. Yet in Part 1, and to a lesser extent in Part 2, Swift intends those cultures as mirrors of European civilization. The follies of Europeans, and of mankind in general, are caricatured especially in the behavior and the mindset of the Lilliputians. But Gulliver's position in these episodes of the tale, in which he's first physically enormous and then extraordinarily tiny, is also emblematic of what Swift sees as man's own strangeness. It is as if Gulliver, in being shown as an anomaly within both of these cultures, represents mankind as a puzzle, an enigma that an outsider would have difficulty making sense of.
Swift probably viewed himself as an "outsider" throughout...