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Jonathan Swifts Gulliver's Travels
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Gulliver in Houynhnmland
One of the most interesting questions about Gullivers Travels is whether
the Houyhnhnms represent an ideal of rationality or whether on the other
hand they are the butt of Swift's satire. In other words, in Book IV, is .... Middle of Term Paper
... (203) even though as a human he
is already the most rational being there is. This is why Swift refers to
Erasmus Darwins discovery of the origin of the species and the voyage of
the Beagle_to show how Gulliver knows that people are at the top of the
food chain. But if Lemule Gulliver is satirized, so are the Houyhnhnms,
whose voices sound like the call of castrati. They walk on two legs instead
of four, and seem to be much like people. As Gulliver says, "It was with
the utmost astonishment that I witnessed these creatures playing the flute
and dancing a Vienese waltz. To my mind, they seemed like the greatest
humans ever seen in cour ... |
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