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Curiously, the Lilliputian state uses tests of physical power and agility (rather than tests of moral power and reason) to determine who will hold its governmental offices. The fact that his handkerchief can be used as a stage emphasizes Gulliver’s very different size (and perspective). He is a gentle, moral friend, stopping the game to protect physical safety. The Lilliputian perspective doesn’t recognize a human hat as a hat and therefore doesn’t know how to treat it as a human would. A juxtaposition of perspective: the king protects Gulliver’s physical safety and announces his physical power over soldier’s bodies (he can kill them). However, Gulliver is so much larger than everyone that he faces little risk and could easily stamp everyone to death, which is perhaps why he can afford to resort to moral power rather than physical power—because he is in fact so physically powerful that he is essentially invulnerable. The treaty functions to restrain Gulliver’s physical power (by restricting his movements, making him promise to put his large size to Lilliput’s use, and denying him sustenance if he should choose to disobey these conditions). Only after Gulliver has submitted to these restraints on his own physical power will the Lilliputian state agree to withdraw its own physical hold on him (the chain imprisoning him in the temple).