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As with his return to human society from Lilliput, Gulliver’s reentry after Brobdingnag connects the themes of perspective and truth and shows how malleable a person’s sense of “truth” is. Having spent two years among Brobdingnagans, humans are no longer the norm to Gulliver’s mind—they are freaks, “pygmies.” The process of Gulliver’s reentry continues to highlight the inseparability of the themes of perspective and truth. Gulliver’s worldly knowledge enables him to make assumptions about other people’s limited perspectives (as he assumes the captain simply misgauged the birds’ sizes). Gulliver uses physical evidence, including the symbol of his clothing, to convince the humans around him that his story is true. Even though Gulliver knows that he is simply startled by the change in perspective and that in fact the human world is just as he left it, the power of perspective is so strong that he remains unable to adjust his behavior to line up with the world around him. Instead, heacts completely out of proportion to his situation.