For indeed which I was that prince’s country. I could never endure to look in a glass after nine eyes had been accustomed to such prodigious objects, because the comparison gave me so despicable a conceit of myself.
Answer: This extract is taken from Chapter 7, Part of Swift’s satire Gulliver’s Travels. Here, Gulliver talks about himself to Pocock, the captain of the ship.
In his voyage to Brobdingnag, Gulliver gets a different experience from his previous mission in Lilliput. In that fairyland, everything is so gigantic that he is ashamed of looking at himself in the minor. In the third year of his stay in Brobdingnag, he is brought to the royal king in a travelling box on the beak of an eagle. However, the eagle is attacked by a couple of other eagles, which wanted to share it. As a result, the box holding Gulliver falls down into the sea and is picked up by the captain of the passing ship. Here, Swift attacks the limitations of the self-centred English men who think themselves royal and superior to others. Here, he attempts to show his favour to the people of Brobdingnag.
Thus, Swift’s moral note for keeping an equal eye on others is expressed in the above-quoted lines. He gathers such good qualities and feels to preach them to the people through this work.
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