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	Brobdingnag — Infoplease.com
		The country of gigantic giants, to whom Gulliver was a pigmy “not half so big as a round little worm plucked from the lazy finger of a maid.”
		You high church steeple, you gawky stag, Your husband must come from Brobdingnag.
		Brobdingnag - Brobdingnag The country of gigantic giants, to whom Gulliver was a pigmy “not half so big as...
	www.infoplease.com /dictionary/brewers/brobdingnag.html (168 words)

	Brobdingnag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brobdingnag is a fictional land in Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels occupied by giants.
		The people of Brobdingnag are described as giants who are as tall as a church and whose stride is ten yards.
		The King of Brobdingnag is considered to be based on Sir William Steele, a statesman and writer, who Swift worked for early in his career.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brobdingnag (482 words)

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		In Brobdingnag, where they could not care less, he is full of shame, will not allow himself to be seen performing these functions, and hides behind sorrel leaves.
		Gulliver informs us on his return from Brobdingnag that it was not necessary for him to visit Lilliput in order for him to see Englishmen as Lilliputians; it was only necessary for him to have been to Brobdingnag, for when he landed, he thought himself to be the size of a Brobdingnagian.
		Brobdingnag is a sort of cross between Sparta and republican Rome; it concurs in almost all respects with the principles of Aristotle's Ethics.
	artemis.austincollege.edu /acad/hwc55/bloom.html (2511 words)

	Gulliver's Travels: Its Antithetical Structure
		However, in the second voyage, that is, the voyage to Brobdingnag, Gulliver finds that he himself is a Lilliputian in the land of the giants.
		We must make a note that the word ‘Brobdingnag’ is a big word and so it signifies something large—implicating the generosity and the magnanimity of the Brobdingnagians.
		Brobdingnag (Land of giants): Physical torment of Gulliver but the giants are magnanimous.
	www.geocities.com /seo_advice/gullivers_travels.html (927 words)

	Study Guide: Swift Bk. 2.
		He has a long discussion with the king who says that Gulliver and his kind must be “the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.” Gulliver tries to defend human beings, and the English in particular, from the king’s accusations.
		Gulliver leaves Brobdingnag when the box in which he travels is snatched by a huge eagle and dropped in the sea.
		The king of Brobdingnag exemplifies the virtue of magnamimnity, large-mindedness and generosity, i.
	www.engl.niu.edu /jschaeffer/110/sgeswift2.html (576 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - How 'Gulliver's Travels' Comments on Society - A659360 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The second part, his voyage to Brobdingnag, a land of giants, shows how society often treats smaller people; as curiosities.
		When Gulliver suggests gunpowder, the King of Brobdingnag is extremely unhappy, with every right to be so, since it is impossible for him to know the state of the outside world.
		While in Brobdingnag, Gulliver is treated as a curiosity.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A659360 (2371 words)

	TLIO - Land Essays 3: Gulliver's Shackles: The King of Brobdingnag and England's agrarian apocalypse; George Monbiot
		They had the effect of sensibly dispensing with the customary rights that were such an impediment to progress, and placing absolute control of the land in the hands of certain individuals, freeing them to engage in agricultural improvements of the kind the King of Brobdingnag had envisaged.
		To ensure that they persisted, the representatives who had forgone the selfish pursuit of petty politics in deference to the King of Brobdingnag's wishes, passed, from 1815 onwards, a new series of far-sighted Acts.
		So determined are we to grow three, four, even ten ears of corn or its equivalent where but one grew before, that we are now trying to introduce parts of bacteria into plants, scorpions into caterpillars and humans into pigs.
	www.tlio.org.uk /pubs/le3monb.html (1765 words)

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		BROBDINGNAG, an extensive peninsula on the coast of California, in the United States, discovered in 1703.
		The culture of Brobdingnag is limited to morality, history, poetry and mathematics, in which this race of giants excels.
		The fauna includes the splacknuck, a graceful and elegant mammal roughly the size of a human being, and travellers are advised that they could be mistaken for one.
	trace.ntu.ac.uk /writers/mcdonald/imagc/brob.htm (847 words)

	Gulliver's Travels Book Notes Summary by Jonathan Swift: Major Characters
		He is married to Mary Burton with two children (who consequently grow up without him), and spends some sixteen years and seventeen months in his adventures, and ultimately returns home a changed man. His first voyage leaves him shipwrecked and alone in Lilliput, a land where he is a giant compared to everyone else.
		Brobdingnag is a land of giants, where Gulliver is the relative size of a Lilliputian.
		Brobdignags: The Brobdingnags are the giant people of the land of Brobdingnag.
	www.bookrags.com /notes/gt/CHR.htm (1235 words)

	Satire in the works of Jonathan Swift and John Gay
		It is also important to note that Gulliver does not really notice the moral nastiness of the court, whereas he is quick to notice the physical ugliness of the giants in Brobdingnag This perhaps shows how blind people often are to their own follies.
		Brobdingnag is generally thought to have the political system which is closest to Swift's ideals.
		Brobdingnag comes across as a much more passive and civilised society than ours.
	www.literature-study-online.com /essays/swift_gay.html (3054 words)

	SparkNotes: Gulliver’s Travels: Character List
		When the queen discovers that no one at court is suited to care for Gulliver, she invites Glumdalclitch to live at court as his sole babysitter, a function she performs with great seriousness and attentiveness.
		The queen - The queen of Brobdingnag, who is so delighted by Gulliver’s beauty and charms that she agrees to buy him from the farmer for 1,000 pieces of gold.
		When he tries to speak seriously with the king of Brobdingnag about England, the king dismisses the English as odious vermin, showing that deep discussion is not possible for Gulliver here.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/gulliver/characters.html (2500 words)

	Gulliver's Travels Book Notes Summary by Jonathan Swift: Objects/Places
		Brobdingnag: Brobdingnag is the second land to which Gulliver travels.
		Gulliver sees much of the grotesque aspects of humanity through his microscopic view and is repulsed by much of their biology, hygiene, and activity.
		Lorbrulgrud: Lorbrulgrud is the capital metropolis of Brobdingnag.
	www.bookrags.com /notes/gt/OBJ.htm (871 words)

	Amazon.ca: Gullivers Travels: Books: Jona Swift (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Brobdingnag, the tables are reversed and he is the tiny person in a land of giants where he is exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs.
		I appreciated the adventure element of the voyages to Lilliput (where the inhabitants are only 6 inches tall) and Brobdingnag (where the inhabitants are 60 feet tall).
		The tale of Brobdingnag went well until its ending-basically that Jonathan Swift did not know where else to go with it, so he contrived something to bring that adventure to a close.
	www.amazon.ca /Gullivers-Travels-Jona-Swift/dp/0671045261 (1677 words)

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		Published on June 26, 1803, this most famous of caricatures constitutes the first section of a diptych conceived by Gillray on the subject of Bonaparte/Gulliver, based on the novel by Jonathan Swift (1726).
		It is a way of using Napoleon's size, so treasured by caricaturists and lampoonists, and enlarging George III, sovereign of a kingdom of giants, Brobdingnag.
		The English text pronounced by the king literally says that Bonaparte is « one of the most pernicious and most harmful reptiles crawling on the face of this earth.»
	www.stanford.edu /group/ww1/spring2000/Bogdan/Image6.html (103 words)

	Gulliver's Travels - PowerBookSearch! (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; an island of sorcerers; and a country ruled by horses.
		Lemuel Gulliver's journeys take him to Lilliput, a country whose inhabitants are no more than six inches tall; to Brobdingnag, a land of giants; to Laputa, a flying island inhabited by absent-minded people; and to the land of Houyhnhnms, where horselike creatures rule with intelligence and courtesy over repulsive humanlike Yahoos.
		One of literature's lasting legacies, Swift's trenchant cautionary tale is a witty, allegorical depiction of people at their worst; yet it may also be read as an enchanting, playful children's story with universal appeal.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0192833774.html (1739 words)

	New York Public Library: Utopia
		Among the Houyhnhnms, a society of horses for whom reason is the guiding principle, Gulliver believes he has found the ideal society.
		Because of his resemblance to the Yahoos (a group of human-like animals governed only by their passions and detested by the Houyhnhnms), Gulliver is forced to leave and returns to England.
		This map of Brobdingnag locates this fictional country off the coast of what is now the state of Washington.
	utopia.nypl.org /I_other_9b.html (131 words)

	Gulliver's Travels Summary, Analysis, and Term Paper Help at Owleyes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Discuss the attitude of the King of Brobdingnag to England, and Gulliverâs attitude toward it, as satire of human frailty.
		Discuss the ways in which the King of Brobdingnag appears as the most sympathetic character in the book, in fact as an ideal king.
		Compare and contrast the King of Brobdingnagâs opinions of the human race and its frailties with the opinions of Gulliver.
	owleyes.org /tph.php?url_code=gullivers-travels (878 words)

	Brobdingnag
		This together with the hardships of the journeys to the market towns, greatly reduced his health and condition.
		Reduced to a shadow of his former self, Gulliver was glad to pass into the hands of the queen of Brobdingnag, who bought him as a pet.
		At the court his life was more comfortable and a special box is made to his directions to serve as his room.
	www.hanskokhuis.nl /Brobdingnag.html (733 words)

	Gulliver: Intolerance Personified
		Instances of these misunderstandings take place at Gulliver’s meeting with the king of Brobdingnag, when he is “rescued” by Don Pedro de Mendez, and when he apologizes for not claiming the lands he visited in the name of
		One way that Swift did this was by causing Gulliver not to understand or to misunderstand these other cultures, showing the reader the ethnocentrism that was prevalent in British society at the time.
		Gulliver shows this misunderstanding at his meeting with the king of Brobdingnag, during his rescue Mendez, and in his apology for not claiming the lands he visited in the name of
	members.cox.net /dadip6/Gulliver.htm (1379 words)

	Scifilm -- Musings, THE 3 WORLDS OF GULLIVER (1960)
		I've covered several Harryhausen movies so far, and even if I haven't always liked the movies as a whole, I've always enjoyed Harryhausen's creations (I was going to say creatures, but the word really doesn't appy to EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS) and they have been the best things about the movies.
		Most adaptations of the Gulliver story seem satisfied with covering the Lilliput story and ending there; this one at least gets to Brobdingnag (though I notice only one attempt to pronounce the name occurs in the movie).
		The third world of the title appears to be his home land of England, which might be a little disappointing to those expecting a third voyage.
	www.scifilm.org /musings2/musing657.html (396 words)

	Comic creator: James Gillray
		Among his famous political cartoons are the 'Anti-Saccharites' (1792), the 'Fatigues of the Campaign in Flanders' (1793) and 'The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver' (1803).
		The king quotes Jonathan Swifts's novel, Gulliver's Travels (Voyage to Brobdingnag), to the figure of Napoleon who, like Gulliver in the story, appears in small scale.
		This simple scene depicts the condescending and superior view that the British held of themselves in relation to the French, especially Napoleon.
	www.lambiek.net /artists/g/gillray_james.htm (206 words)

	Free Essay Gulliver’s Travels Essay / Summary, by Jonathan Swift
		He uses satire by comparing the lives of the people on the islands of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and Laputa.
		Gulliver is then washed upon the shore of Brobdingnag where the people there are six inches.
		Swift makes fun of the way that the people of Brobdingnag go about their daily life.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=25076 (946 words)

	When Malthus Meets Mendel
		The King of Brobdingnag was ahead of his time.
		Today, a global debate is raging over whether biotechnology can transform the King of Brobdingnag's musings into reality.
		Nobody claims that genetically modified (GM) crops will be a panacea for hunger.
	www.biotech-info.net /malthus_meets_mendel.html (1534 words)

	American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens 5
		There are no first and second class carriages as with us; but there is a gentleman's car and a ladies' car: the main distinction between which is that in the first, everybody smokes; and in the second, nobody does.
		As a fl man never travels with a white one, there is also a negro car; which is a great, blundering, clumsy chest, such as Gulliver put to sea in, from the kingdom of Brobdingnag.
		There is a great deal of jolting, a great deal of noise, a great deal of wall, not much window, a locomotive engine, a shriek, and a bell.
	www.classicbookshelf.com /library/charles_dickens/american_notes_for_general_circulation/5 (2457 words)

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		The Lilliputian Gazette is published in Brobdingnag, and for some time now, Builder has run an Ad in the real estate section of that paper which reads as follows:
		Each Homesite has an unobstructed view of Downtown Brobdingnag, and our flat location guarantees walking ease.
		It is located just East of Downtown Brobdingnag, and it appears that his Advertising claims about it are true.
	www.law.onu.edu /exams/contracts/warner/fall88.html (1224 words)

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		There he commits trason but is pardoned and sent to fix his ship and return to England.
		In his next sea voyage, Gulliver finds himself in Brobdingnag where the people are huge and ignorant and Gulliver is repulsed by their magnified flaws.
		He escapes from them when an eagle picks him up and drops him in the sea.
	www.mindspring.com /~jskesterson/bookreviews/gulliver.doc (504 words)

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		Farm girl’s romantic, adventurous rise to the most influential woman in Brobdingnag, the kingdom.
		In Brobdingnag, the kingdom of giants described in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver is cared for by a farm girl whom he calls his Glumdalclitch – “little nurse” in Brobdingnagian.
		After the rescue their ship is trundled back to sea on a wagon and they sail for home as the giant Brobdingnagians wave farewell from shore.
	www.iuniverse.com /bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-13144-1 (248 words)

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