The Lilliputians are a device used to raise the issue of pride throughout Gulliver’s Travels. The Land of the Lilliputians is perhaps the most ridiculous of all the worlds that Gulliver visits. Filled with inhabitants the size of thimbles, the Lilliputians have more pride than common sense, and no one to correct their skewed vision of the world. In this, which is the antithesis of the utopia that Gulliver eventually encounters, they fight mercilessly with Blefuscu, over the simple matter of scriptural interpretation, and they nearly kill Gulliver for urinating on their castle to save it from burning down. However, as ridiculous as that pride may seem, their perceived strength goads Gulliver into submission. What do you suppose Swift is saying here about the power of thought and appearance? What about the issue undeserving pride?