what light does this chapter throw on how gulliver lived in king's palace chapter4,part2

In Brobdingnag, Gulliver is a small man of ordinary morals and virtues in comparison to the Brobdingnagians who seem to be moral giants. In his exhibition of his loyalty to England, we see Gulliver as a proud man who accepts the madness and mellerdy of British society and politics to be a norm because the Brobdingnagians lived in a secluded moral utopia, Gulliver in this case identifies with the Lilliputians who were of much lower moral calibre than the Brobdingnagians. Gulliver understands that it is not possible to be perfect human beings and the intricacies and deceptions involved in politics back home are an integral part of the functioning of society. The high moral standards to which the Brobdingangians hold themselves seems to be impossible to achieve in any normal society. Hence, he defends his country passionately. 

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