Brobdingnag
Brobdingnag is the second country that Lemuel Gulliver visits in Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels . Not only are the people here huge, but all of nature is much bigger here than himself.
Driven off course by a severe storm, his ship's dinghy docks on an island to fetch fresh water. Gulliver's companions flee from a giant and leave him behind, whereupon he is soon discovered by locals. The average height of the huge islanders is about 18 meters. Gulliver is first issued for money by a tenant before it is sold to the royal family in Lorbrulgrud, the capital of Brobdingnag. Gulliver adds to the courtyard amusement due to his small size, but is treated with respect. Gulliver tells the king about his homeland England and the conditions in present-day Europe, which provokes a lot of criticism from the king (“... I can only draw the conclusion that the bulk of your natives are the most pernicious sex of little worms that nature will ever allow has to crawl around on the surface of the earth ”). Gulliver would be ready to reveal the secret of the manufacture of black powder to the king, but the king refuses indignantly. When Gulliver is near the coast, the box that Gulliver uses to travel is carried out into the open sea by an eagle . After the eagle has dropped the box, Gulliver is rescued by people of his world on a normal sized ship.
literature
- Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels. Weltbild Verlag, ISBN 3-8289-7687-5 .
