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Ranita Ang Comparative Literature 2CW Assignment #1 October 15, 2003 Gulliver in Brobdingnag The setting of the passage to be analyzed here is that of Gulliver's voyage to a land of giants. The speaker's context here is the basic comic devices of reversal and exaggeration. When the dimensions of things are reversed there is a comic effect. When clowns at the circus ride around in a tiny car the effect is hilarious. In a famous Gary Larsen cartoon a gigantic monster is seen peering into a man's car through the wing mirror which reads: "Things reflected in this mirror may appear to be larger than they are." The comic context employed by the speaker in the following passage, then, is that of a man suddenly turned tiny by circumstances beyond his control. There are, of course, classical antecedents for this type of size reversal. Odysseus in the cave of Cyclops would provide the best example....

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