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Nima Mousavi · Answer 1 · 2017-11-06T23:20:20+0000

The king of Brobdingnag in Gulliver's Travels is "struck with Horror" and disgusted by Gulliver's proposals (regarding gunpowder as it is used in England). He tells Gulliver that if he values his life, he should never mention gunpowder again!

Akif Hadziabdic · Answer 2 · 2017-11-11T17:52:43+0000

The King of Brobdingnag is disgusted by the existence of gunpowder so that Gulliver is forbidden by him to ever mention it again.

Brobdingnag is a fictional land in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels inhabited by giants.

Gulliver's Travels is a prose satire wirtten by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that constitutes a satire on human nature as well as the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.

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