Topic > The Importance of Experiences in Gulliver's Travels

Pretending to be ill, Gulliver travels with Glumdalclitch and, fortunately, is picked up by an eagle and transported to English waters. By chance, an eagle carries Gulliver to English waters to be rescued. After seeing the English again, he considers them pygmies after being accustomed to always seeing Brobdingnagians. Gulliver's perception of the world changed during his visit to Brobdingnag. Upon his return home, it seemed that he was now the giant. He begins to think of his people as despicable little creatures just as the Brobdingnagians thought of him. He also observes that he could not look at himself while in Brobdingnag. "Indeed, while in that prince's country, I could never bear to look at myself in a mirror after my eyes had been accustomed to such prodigious objects, for the comparison gave me such a contemptible idea of ​​myself" ( Swift 149). Gulliver's views began to change, foreshadowing his outcome at the end of