His majesty desired i would take some other opportunity of bringing all the rest of his enemy’s ships into his ports. and so unmeasurable is the ambition of princes, that he seemed to think of nothing less than reducing the whole empire of blefuscu into a province and governing it by a viceroy; of destroying the big-endian exiles and compelling that people to break the smaller end of their eggs, by which he would remain sole monarch of the whole world. .
what is the main idea of this paragraph from gulliver’s travels by jonathan swift?

gulliver believes the lilliputian emperor should take over the nation of blefuscu.

gulliver believes he should become the sole ruler of the entire world.

gulliver believes the emperor is only concerned with ruling the world.

gulliver believes the emperor wants all the big-endian exiles to return to lilliput.

i'm pretty sure i had this question the other day and b was the right answer.

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”