Gulliver observes that men seeking political office must do tricks such as dancing on rope or jumping over or crawling under sticks to win office. What Gulliver does not realize is how these foolish games also occur in England by politicians ready to debase themselves by performing humiliating games, hoping for colored ribbons, money, or titles. Another problem with the story is how a group of people can go to war over such a stupid idea as to which side should "true believers" break their eggs (41). Gulliver misses the fact that these unreasonable wars go on all the time in his life, like holy wars, where thousands of people die for something that did not need a battle at all. This also shows how the ruling power can cause such unreasonable wars over unimportant things. The last part of this first book that I do not agree with is how a politician named Flimnap accuses Gulliver of having an affair with his wife, which is impossible. Once again, Gulliver doesn't realize how messed up politics are in this world and in England. .
Soon after, Gulliver returns back to England, only to sail away to another place two months later. He is left behind on the island of Brobdingnag, where the inhabitants are over sixty feet tall. The first thing I do not like is how the king talks about humans; how "they love, they fight, they dispute, they cheat, they betray" (104). Gulliver accepts these points of views out of courtesy, but does not realize that the king is right. The king understands what is really wrong with his form of government and morals in general.
While Gulliver is traveling with the royal family, he sees beggars on the street that disgust him because he can see all their deformities, including the giant "lice crawling on their clothes" which "turned his stomach" and made him nauseous (111). The thing he doesn't put together is that these lice are like humans and are more revolting than the actual giant beggars with their "snouts with which they rooted like swine", just like humans act as if they are tiny little vermin trying to eat off of something else (111).