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Ben Davis May 30, Why did the Lilliputians feed Gulliver? What is the conflict between Lilliput and blefuscu? Why did Gulliver put his finger to his mouth?
How did Gulliver capture the Blefuscudian fleet? Who saved Gulliver life? Their naval policy, they said, destroyed the Spanish fleet. The Whigs were unsatisfied. They maintained that it was Marlborough's infantry campaigns on the continent that had brought peace. Moreover, after the peace treaty was signed, the Whigs accused the Tories of treason because of a failure to get colonies and ports from France and Spain.
The fire-fighting episode may or may not refer to Swift's Tale of a Tub , which he wrote to defend the Church of England against its Puritan and Roman Catholic enemies. The book is satirical, often coarse, and Queen Anne was reportedly offended by Swift's coarseness. A war has been raging between the two nations ever since, and Gulliver is asked to help defend Lilliput against its enemies.
Gulliver does not feel that it is appropriate to intervene, but he nonetheless offers his services to the emperor. Gulliver spies on the empire of Blefuscu and devises a plan. He asks for cables and bars of iron, out of which he makes hooks with cables attached. He then wades and swims the channel to Blefuscu and catches their ships at port. The people are so frightened that they leap out of their ships and swim to shore.
Gulliver attaches a hook to each ship and ties them together. The Blefuscu soldiers fire arrows at him, but he keeps working, protecting his eyes by putting on the spectacles he keeps in his coat pocket.
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