Brobdingnag is a fictional land in satirical novel Jonathan Swift 1726 Gulliver's Travels occupied by giants. Lemuel Gulliver visited the land after the ship he was crippled and he was separated from a party exploring the unknown land. In the second introduction to the book, Gulliver regretted that this was a misspelling introduced by the publisher and the land was actually called Brobdingrag .
Brobdingnagian adjectives have come to describe whatever colossal size.
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Swift describes the location of Brobdingnag, and its geography, in the text of Part II of Gullivers Travels , and provides a map showing where it is located. However these accounts are somewhat contradictory.
Maps printed at the beginning of Part II show that Brobdingnag is located on the Northwest coast of North America. It shows (from south to north) Point Monterey, Port Sir Francis Drake, Cape Mendocino, Cape St Sebastian, Cape Blanco and the AniÃÆ'¡n Semi-myth, all locations on the Pacific coast of North America, and depict Brobdingnag as a peninsula extends to west to the Pacific in the north of the Strait.
In that book Gulliver describes his voyage from England. After the winter in the Cape of Good Hope, the ship reached the latitude five degrees south, north of Madagascar in March 1703, and Maluku, "about three degrees north of that line" in April. From there the ship was driven by a storm of "about five hundred leagues to the east" (this would put the ship still in Micronesia), after which the crew decided to "hold on to the same path rather than turn northward, which may have brought us to the northwestern part of Great Tartary ". They saw the land, which was later discovered by Gulliver was Brobdingnag, on 16 June 1703.
Brobdingnag is claimed to be a continental-sized peninsula with a length of six thousand miles and a width of three to five thousand miles, based on the location provided by Gulliver would suggest that it covers much of the North Pacific. In contrast, his map shows Brobdingnag having the same size and breadth as Washington today, and his description of the voyage placed him on a six-week voyage from Maluku.
Swift is very skeptical about the reliability of travel writings and geographical descriptions that may not be the parody of many unreliable travel books published at a time that Percy Adams describes as a "travel lie".
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Scale
Unlike his story of Lilliput, Gulliver does not say exactly how big the Brobdingnag people are. However, in at least two cases he stated explicitly that Brobdingnagian's eyes were "above sixty feet" from the ground, giving a ratio of at least eleven to one. He also stated that he would "appear meaningless to this nation because a Lilliputian will be among us", indicating the ratio of twelve-one to one given to Lilliput intended. Hailstones are nearly 1,800 times heavier than in Europe, consistent with numbers. Gulliver also explains visiting the main temple at Lorbrulgrud, whose tower is the highest in the kingdom, but reports he is "again disappointed, for not more than three thousand feet", which "allows for a size difference between people and us in Europe" "not equal in proportion to the Salisbury tower". The outer whales of the world are declared to have a measure that can not be brought by one person, and eaten by ordinary people if they find specimens stranded on shore.
Geography
Brobdingnag is said to lie between Japan and California, extending six thousand miles, and between three and five thousand miles wide. It is described as a peninsula, ending in the northeast by volcanoes up to 30 miles (48 km) high that separates the country from unknown ground outside. It is surrounded by three other sides by the ocean, and people can never develop sailing ships at sea. Land "has 51 cities, near 100 walled city, and a large number of villages". Lorbrulgrud is claimed to be the capital with a king who owns a seaside palace on Flanflasnic. Its capital "contains more than 80,000 homes" and "the length is three glonglung (about fifty four English miles) and two and a half widths". Gulliver tells us that Lorbrulgrud "lies near the middle of the empire" and is three thousand miles from the farmhouse on the shore, that the journey takes ten weeks and that they "cross five or six rivers with a wider and deeper degree than the River Nile or Ganges River ", and" hardly any smaller tributaries smaller than the River Thames at London Bridge ".
People, flora and fauna
The Brobdingnags are described as gigantic as high as 60 feet tall and whose steps are ten meters. All other animals and plants, and even natural features such as rivers and even hail, are in proportion. Rats are mastiff size, with tail "two feet long, wanting an inch", while mastiffs "are the same in large quantities for four elephants". Gulliver describes the fly "as big as a Dunstable", and a bullet-sized wasp, with an "an inch and a half long stroke, and sharp as a needle". It also means that this country is much more dangerous for people of normal human size, as evidenced by Gulliver using his hangers much more often here - that is, attacking fleas - than in other foreign countries he visits; fortunately for Gulliver, the people were civilized. A splacknuck is a 6-foot (1.8 m) animal, compared to the size of Gulliver, though it is never explained what animal suits him (probably a rodent, like a mouse). The fossil record is claimed to show that the Brobdingnagian ancestor was once larger, but perhaps the scholars have misinterpreted the fossils as human beings, which occurred in Europe at the time. King Brobdingnag argues that the race has deteriorated. The Brobdingnag language is described as a different character from Lilliput, and appears to have a quality somewhat similar to Slavic, especially Polish.
History and Government
Gulliver relates that, in the past, there was a battle between the monarchy, the nobility, and the people who resulted in a number of civil wars ending in a covenant. Monarchy is based on reason. City officials are selected by ballot. King Brobdingnag discovers British institutions and behaviors that want to be compared with his country . Based on Gulliver's description of their behavior, the King described English as "the most destructive little thirst race that nature has ever suffered to crawl on the surface of the earth." Swift meant that the moral relationship between England and Brobdingnagian became disproportionate as physical relationships. The King of Brobdingnag is considered to be based on Sir William Steele, a statesman and author, whom Swift worked for early in his career.
The Brobdingnag army is claimed to be large with 207,000 troops including 32,000 cavalry although the public has no known enemy. The local aristocracy ordered troops; firearms and gunpowder are unknown to them. The king rebuked Gulliver as he tried to appeal to statesmen in the use of gunpowder.
Brobdingnag's law is simple and easy to follow. There is little civil litigation. Killer beheaded.
Note also that in the introduction of Gulliver's character in the story, heading to a letter from Captain Gulliver to his cousin Sympson he stipulates that the correct spelling is actually "... Brobding r ag (so the word should be spelled, and not mistaken Brobding n ag ),... [emphasis added] ". This correction by fictitious writers is a tool used to add a verisimilitude element to a story.
Culture
Brobdingnagian culture consists of history, poetry, mathematics and ethics, mathematics into certain strengths. Printing has long been known but the library is relatively small. The king has the largest library, which contains about a thousand volumes. The Brobdingnagians support a clear literary style.
Legacy
In the largest moon of Mars, Phobos, the Grildrig crater has a name given to Gulliver by the daughter of a Glumdalclitch farmer in Brobdingnag, due to Swift's 'prediction' of two undiscovered moons discovered by his laparist astronomers.
See also
- Gigantic Island
- Houyhnhnm
- Lilliput and Blefuscu
- Struldbrug
- Yahoo (Gulliver's Trip)
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References
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