Gulliver's Travels- Lilliput

I find that the Lilliputians area quite civilized society. They are not too impertinent as to kill Gulliver when he first arrived in which Gulliver relates as being imprudent if they were to since they would have mostly likely instigate his wrath and that would have allowed him to be free of the bonds in which the used to tie him. But they aren’t so naïve as to immediately free Gulliver with him being so large enough that he could destroy their home if he had wished although they had been hospitable enough to provide Gulliver with a home, food, water, and they even made a bed for him (made from 600 beds brought by horse carriages. 150 were sewn together and stacked 4 high- I find it amazing that they would be willing to go to such lengths for someone who was almost a complete stranger.) Also the Lilliputians are quite pleasant (to me) apart from the few who had gone up to Gulliver and tried to attack him. The officers though put an end to that fairly quickly and even let Gulliver decide their fate, seeing it fit that the one who they attacked would be the one to punish them although Gulliver ended up freeing them instead. And when the council had heard about Gulliver’s good deed they felt gratified to provide him every morning with 6 beeves, 40 sheep, and generous amounts of bread and wine. The emperor even assigned 300 of the best tailors to make Gulliver a new outfit and 6 of his best scholars to teach him of their language. From all of this we can tell that the Lilliputians are those who repay kindness with their own kindness and are not injudicious in their actions (well most of them…) -since them even allowed Gulliver to punish the 6 men who tried to hurt him (they are not biased to their own kind as well). In the end they even let Gulliver free of his bonds as long as he swears to go by their contract.
The Lilliputians culture is rather different from ours now. But their culture could have also been much different from Gulliver’s as well though I’m pretty sure that it was more similar to his than ours. For one thing, the Lilliputians have their whole entire different dialect (they do not know French, Spanish, Latin, Dutch, Italian, or Lingua Franca; Gulliver tried speaking to them in all of these). [Ex. quinbus flestrin= Man- mountain] Their way of dress though I believe is quite similar to Gulliver’s culture since he was able to recognize it as European and Asiatic although I am very sure that it must be much different from what we would consider normal clothes today. Also they have a different way of governing then we have in America, instead of democracy they have a dictatorship but from what I could infer so far in story the emperor does seem to be an agreeable man (he had been the one to award Gulliver for his benevolence toward his harassers). Then another point, their advancement in technology is far from ours and even behind Gulliver’s time. When Gulliver had to be searched by two guards he took out a watch in which they described later described as: “We directed him to draw out whatever was at the end of that chain; which appeared to be a globe, half silver, and half of some transparent metal; for, on the transparent side, we saw certain strange figures circularly drawn, and thought we could touch them, till we found our fingers stopped by the lucid substance. He put this engine into our ears, which made an incessant noise, like that of a water-mill: and we conjecture it is either some unknown animal, or the god that he worships; but we are more inclined to the latter opinion, because he assured us, (if we understood him right, for he expressed himself very imperfectly) that he seldom did any thing without consulting it. He called it his oracle, and said, it pointed out the time for every action of his life.” (pg. 14) Here I could tell that the Lilliputians were probably not very advance in terms of technology since they had not even been able to deduce out time (well, our meaning of time anyway. They even go so far as to think that the clock is Gulliver’s god although I can’t blame since they had probably never seen anything like that before which means they had now prior knowledge whatsoever to expect of this contraption). But make no mistake; they are extremely capable in the areas of math since they had been able to figure out that Gulliver eats about the equivalent of 1724 Lilliputians by figuring that Gulliver was 12 to 1 in proportion of his body to theirs. And so by that similarity that his body must contain 1724 of their which means he would need 1724 times the amount of food to sustain him. (I couldn’t really follow how they got the number 1724 by a ratio of 12 to 1 though. But Gulliver had stated that they were ingenious when it came to that and for now I’ll take his words on it since I still don’t know enough about his character to deduce correctly if he is lying or not. Besides he gave me no reason so far to suspect he is lying and if we can’t trust him then what can we trust about the story anyway?)
[And for some reason Lilliput reminds of the Romans. I don’t really know why but I always picture them parallel to the Romans. I think that it’s perhaps mostly because of the Emperor. Instead of calling him the king, monarch, etc. he is called by emperor which is very reminiscent of the Romans (to me anyway). Also the Lilliputians are quite well off given that they are able to afford Gulliver’s diet which by their calculations would be 1724 times theirs. That “superior” form of economy is very similar to the Romans who at one time was the wealthiest empire in the world. ]