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Summary: Chapter VII. Gulliver is disturbed by the kingâs evaluation of England. He tries to tell him about gunpowder, describing it as a great invention and offering it to the king as a gesture of friendship. The king is appalled by the proposal, and Gulliver is taken aback, thinking that the king has refused a great opportunity. He thinks that the king is unnecessarily scrupulous and narrow-minded for not being more open to the inventions of Gulliverâs world.
The director and producer Alfred Hitchcock popularized both the term MacGuffin and the technique, with his films Number Seventeen (1932) and The 39 Steps (1935) being early examples of the concept. According to some sources, it is believed that writer Angus MacPhail originally coined the term.