Gulliver is revealed to be a very proud man and one who accepts the madness and Set against a moral background, Gulliver’s “ordinariness” exposes many of its faults. Only children and the deformed are intentionally evil. They are not perfect, but they are consistently moral. Now, Gulliver remains an ordinary man, but the Brobdingnagians are moral men. Gulliver was an ordinary man compared to the amoral political midgets in Lilliput. Swift uses this difference to express a difference in morality. In the second book of the Travels, Swift reverses the size relationship that he used in Book I.In Lilliput, Gulliver was a giant in Brobdingnag, Gulliver is a midget. We are always aware of the difference between the imperfect (but normal) moral life of Gulliver, and the petty and stupid political life of emperors, prime ministers, and informers. Gulliver is utterly incapable of the stupidity of the Lilliputian politicians, and, therefore, he and the Lilliputians are ever-present contrasts for us. Within the broad scheme of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver seems to be an average man in eighteenth-century England.He is concerned with family and with his job, yet he is confronted by the pigmies that politics and political theorizing make of people. His readers were eager to identify the various characters and discuss their discoveries, and, as a result, many of them saw politics and politicians from a new perspective. His book was popular because it was a compelling adventure tale and also a puzzle.
Using certain political events of 1714? 18, he described in Gulliver’s Travels many things that would remind his readers that Lilliputian folly was also English folly? and, particularly, Whig folly.The method, for example, which Gulliver must use to swear his allegiance to the Lilliputian emperor parallels the absurd difficulty that the Whigs created concerning the credentials of the Tory ambassadors who signed the Treaty of Utrecht. Swift turned to the Tories for political allegiance and devoted his propaganda talents to their services. Representing the Irish bishops, Swift tried to get Queen Anne and the Whigs to grant some financial aid to the Irish church.They refused, and Swift turned against them even though he had considered them his friends and had helped them while he worked for Sir William Temple. Why, one might ask, did Swift have such a consuming contempt for the Whigs? This hatred began when Swift entered politics as the representative of the Irish church.
Behind the disguise of his narrative, he is satirizing the pettiness of human nature in general and attacking the Whigs in particular.īy emphasizing the six-inch height of the Lilliputians, he graphically diminishes the stature of politicians and indeed the stature of all human nature.And in using the fire in the Queen’s chambers, the rope dancers, the bill of particulars drawn against Gulliver, and the inventory of Gulliver’s pockets, he presents a series of allusions that were identifiable to his contemporaries as critical of Whig politics. If a bill of particulars does not explain enough of the case to support the lawsuit, then the other party might be able to file a motion to dismiss the claim.Philosophical and Political Background Swift has at least two aims in Gulliver’s Travels besides merely telling a good adventure story. Once you know what the other side is trying to prove to the judge, you can better prepare for depositions or trial. This way, the parties can start to understand what the other side’s “theory of the case” will be – in other words, what the party is trying to prove to the judge so that s/he can get the outcome and the relief s/he is looking for. If there is a complaint filed by one party and a counter-complaint filed by the other party, both parties may request a bill of particulars against each other. Usually, requests for bill of particulars are sent out before depositions happen, and before other forms of discovery, so that the other party has a more complete sense of the allegations against him/her. In other words, a bill of particulars is a discovery tool that can be used by a respondent to figure out what the other party is claiming happened. The respondent in a lawsuit might request a bill of particulars if the complaint has general allegations without getting into the specific details that would be necessary for the respondent to properly defend him/herself in the case.
A bill of particulars is a written document in which a party has to explain the allegations in his/her complaint, or petition, in more detail.