<Tab/>The Brobdingnagians are very simplistic people and similarily to the Laputans before them the Brobdingnagians are distinguishable from Europeans by their size. The Brobdingnagians are immense and everything in their country matches their size. Grass grows 20 feet high, little girls (Glumdalclitch) can reach 40 feet and hedges can approach 120 feet high. A fully grown adult Brobdingnagian easily takes 10 yards a stride. The smallest known adult in Brobdingnag is the Queen's Dwarf …
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…that fly buzzing at his ear but when the fly is bigger than you, you get a different perspective on life. In other lands it is difficult for Gulliver, being such an outsider, to get glimpses of family relations or private affairs, but in Brobdingnag he is treated as a doll or a plaything, and thus is able to see/smell intimate details of everyone that you would never notice looking at regular sized people.