The Futility of the Human Race and Elevated Self-Image of Gulliver

As the book goes on, the small self-image of Gulliver grows larger and larger, as well as his idea of the futility and hopelessness of the human race. Beginning with the Lilliputians, Gulliver is quite humbled being brought down by people a fraction of his size. But by the time he comes to the land of the Luggnagg, he finds himself ready to answer the question of what he would do if he was immortal. Then he finds the true disgustingness of what humans become when given the chance to live forever, and loses even more confidence in the human race. Next in his travels, in the land of Glubdubdrib, Gulliver finds the people in history he admired most committed the most wicked things to obtain their power. Some things he knew vaguely of, but these he condoned, figuring them to be rootless rumors. In reality, though, the crimes were much worse than even broad speculators imagined. At this point any remaining respect of the human race in his mind were decimated.