Make-up Gullivers Travels Week 8

The concept presented in Gullivers Travels was the change in perspective when Gulliver traveled from land to land. This especially stuck out to me when he was amongst the Brobdingnags, and spending time with the giant Glumdalclitch. The way that Swift presented this to the reader is through sexuality. The natural beauty of a woman through a mans eye is challenged when the woman is being viewed as a giant. The small pimples that would evade the naked eye of the average man and woman are magnified to a disgusting blemish that cannot be avoided by Gulliver. I do not think that this is meant to only challenge the reader to reconsider beauty, but instead to consider what we accept all around us based on the perspective that we are using. For example, this could be applied country by country, culture by culture, what one culture views as a delicious delicacy to eat, Americans might be repulsed by the same dish. It is easy to find examples of perspective in our lives, but the overall theme of Gullivers Travels is a political one, and this physical example of perspective should be transferred to our political considerations. Why do we have the government that we do? Why do we allow for representatives to elect the President of the United States of America instead of letting majority win? Why would people in other countries allow themselves to be oppressed? I do not have answers for these questions, but I think that it is important for us to consider multiple perspectives when viewing our world, and I think that this is exactly what Swift was trying to convey.