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Essay / Theme of Feminism in Gulliver's Travels By Jonathan Swift
Gulliver scrutinizes the women, seeing everything amplified, inspecting as if under a microscope. Gulliver speaks of the Brobdingnag women, and when he does, it is with disgust. Looking at women's bodies, Gulliver points out many things that are not pleasing about women physically. Women's skin is described as too rough, without color, they are very oily. Continuing his negativity towards women's physiques, he is disgusted by their aroma, is disgusted by their gigantic blemishes, pores, acne and moles. (quote) In order to expose women to the best of their abilities, Gulliver uses the bridesmaids to point out women's flaws, which seem outdated. Describing how disgusted he was when he was placed on one of a servant's breasts for playtime. He speaks of their bodies as an unattractive sight, in Gulliver's words "very far from being a tempting sight." (page) Gulliver makes a connection with the women of England by making it clear that they have the same faults but they are. imperceptible because they are the same size as him. “It made me think about the fair skin of our English ladies, who only seem so beautiful to us because they are of our size, and about their faults which we only see with a magnifying glass, where the it is found by experience that the smoothest white skins appear rough, coarse and poorly colored. » (page) Being this