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The farmer continues to consider Gulliver nothing but a money making tool. Disturbingly, he seems to see his own daughter the same way. The queen does not expect Gulliver to possess human reason and is thus surprised to see he does. The king is just as unprepared to perceive Gulliver’s humanity and assumes he must be mechanical. At first, the king’s perspective will only accept truth in the words of people who look like him. He assumes that Gulliver’s words must be lies. Indeed, this rigid perspective shows that the king is not as worldly as Gulliver, whose knowledge has equipped him to sympathize with and listen to people of different appearances. Again, as Gulliver’s context and perspective shifts, his clothes shift too. The royal family members seem to be broadening their perspectives on Gulliver, though the prince’s sudden dehumanizing disdain towards him shows the limits of their view. At the same time, Gulliver’s reflection indicates how much his own perspective is being altered by his environment: human beings no longer seem “normal” to him. The dwarf cruelly abuses his physical advantage over Gulliver to humiliate him. There is a bit of a suggestion here that the dwarf, who has always been small compared to the other Brobdingnagans, is asserting the power he never could before over Gulliver. Gulliver’s struggles emphasize the difference between his perspective and the Brobdingnagans perspectives: in the case of the fly excrement, they can’t even see the thing that causes Gulliver so much discomfort.