What is the target of Swift's satire in Gulliver's Travels when he has Gulliver offer the king of Brobdingnag the technology to make gunpowder and the king refuses? a. the inhumanity of modern warfare b. the inability of rulers to accept change c. the folly of the religious schism in Europe d. the wisdom of European rulers

b. the inability of rulers to accept change

Explanation:

It was a mockery of bourgeois ideals, a harsh satire on the existing society. The Lilliputian king is very reminiscent of the English King George I. Swift ridiculed inertness and hypocrisy. There is undoubted specificity of the addressees of the Swift merciless, caustic, murderous satire.