He refused to sit on the chair that he made because the chairs were made of the hair of the king of Brobdingnag. In the 7th chapter, the King had shaved his hair and Gulliver had weaved the hair into chairs just to satisfy the Queen of Brobdingnag’s curiosity.

What can you infer about Gulliver’s relationship with the Lilliputians, based on the way he walks around the city? That he did not have good relationship with the Lilliputians and wanted to terminate their relationship immediately. He feared government persecution. He would make a formidable weapon against Blefuscu.

Gulliver is a naïve consumer of the Lilliputians’ grandiose imaginings: he is flattered by the attention of their royal family and cowed by their threats of punishment, forgetting that they have no real physical power over him.

At first, the Lilliputians assume that, because of his size, Gulliver will be violent and aggressive, so they treat him as an enemy. They tie him down, shoot him with arrows, and eventually transport him, lying prostrate, to their city. Gulliver reaches Lilliput by swimming ashore after a shipwreck.

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The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with “pretty stones” that they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism and ignorant elitism Swift encountered in Britain. Hence the term “yahoo” has come to mean “a crude, brutish or obscenely coarse person”.

Gulliver, however, reacts to the Yahoos with immediate and overpowering detestation and is horrified by the Yahoos’ similarity to him. He lacks the humility to see himself as a sort of Yahoo. Rather, his pride leads him to try to become a horse.

Gulliver develops such a love for the Houyhnhnms that he no longer desires to return to humankind. He admits that Gulliver’s humans have different systems of learning, law, government, and art but says that their natures are not different from those of the Yahoos.

Gulliver explains the reasons for the wars that England is fighting, the rift between the Catholics and Protestants, the division between the Tories and Whigs, and the requirements for qualifying a legislator in English government.

The King of Brobdingnag finds English institutions and behaviour wanting in comparison with his country’s. Based on Gulliver’s descriptions of their behaviour, the King describes the English as “the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth”.