dwarf-
the queen employs a little person who is 30 feet tall. this person is thrilled to have a man at the court even smaller than he is and delights in torturing gulliver. as always in this novel, no character's actions go without symbolic significance. here, height seems to be an indication of social and intellectual power. so, when the dwarf, a weak man in brobdingnagian hierarchy, finds an even weaker man, he is thrilled with the chance to torment him.
farmer-
he discovers gulliver in his cornfields and initially takes him to his house as a pet. his daughter, glumdalclitch, adores him and becomes his permanent nanny. however, the farmer wishes to capitalize on gulliver's novelty by taking him throughout the land on tour and exhibition, until he sells gulliver to the king.
