Brobdingnag
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Brobdingnag is a fictional land of giants in Jonathan Swift's satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels," where everything is enormous compared to the protagonist.
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional country
ⓘ
fictional land ⓘ literary location ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Gulliver's Travels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter | Lemuel Gulliver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | Lilliput NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryInFictionalUniverse | Brobdingnag NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | Kingdom of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Jonathan Swift NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictedIn | Part II of Gulliver's Travels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs | land of giants ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1726 ⓘ |
| geographicalType | peninsula or island (fictional) ⓘ |
| governedBy | King of Brobdingnag NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact | adjective "Brobdingnagian" meaning gigantic ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
enormous animals
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enormous architecture ⓘ enormous plants ⓘ |
| hasFormOfGovernment | absolute monarchy ⓘ |
| hasMoralTheme |
limitations of human pride
ⓘ
relativity of size and power ⓘ |
| hasNotableResident |
Glumdalclitch
NERFINISHED
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Queen of Brobdingnag NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inhabitedBy | giants ⓘ |
| kingAttitudeTowardEurope | critical ⓘ |
| languageOfInhabitants | Brobdingnagian language ⓘ |
| literaryFunction |
critique of European politics
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critique of corruption ⓘ critique of war and militarism ⓘ vehicle for political satire ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Augustan literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalWorldRegion | unknown part of the Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| moralCharacterOfSociety | relatively virtuous ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person account by Gulliver ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | second country visited by Lemuel Gulliver ⓘ |
| partOf | Gulliver's voyages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedConcept | giantism in literature ⓘ |
| relatedWorkSection | A Voyage to Brobdingnag NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scaleOfInhabitants | about 12 times human size ⓘ |
| scaleRelativeToGulliver | enormous ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
critique of European civilization
ⓘ
idealized moral society ⓘ |
| technologyLevel | less advanced than European firearms ⓘ |
| usedFor | satirical comparison with England ⓘ |
| workGenreContext |
satire
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travel narrative parody ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver