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Essay / The importance of experiences in Gulliver's travels
Feigning illness, Gulliver travels with Glumdalclitch and, fortunately, is picked up by an eagle and transported to English waters. By chance, an eagle brings Gulliver back to English waters to be rescued. Seeing English people again, he notices them as pygmies after having been used to seeing Brobdingnagians all the time. Gulliver's perception of the world changed during his visit to Brobdingnag. When he returned home, it was as if he was now the giant. He begins to view his people as despicable little creatures, just as the Brobdingnagians viewed them. He even notices that he couldn't look at himself in Brobdingnag. “For indeed, while I was in this prince's country, I could never bear to look in a mirror after my eyes had been accustomed to such prodigious objects, because the comparison gave me vanity so contemptible of myself” (Swift 149). Gulliver's opinions began to change, foreshadowing his outcome at the end of the