Symbols of Liliput
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Symbols of Liliput
Here, the Lilliputians symbolize humankind’s wildly excessive pride in its own puny existence. Swift fully intends the irony of representing the tiniest race visited by Gulliver as by far the most vainglorious and smug, both collectively and individually. Indeed, the war with Blefuscu is itself an absurdity springing from wounded vanity. All in all, the Lilliputians symbolize misplaced human pride, and point out Gulliver’s inability to diagnose it correctly.
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