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Monster Essays - Gullivers Travels - Houyhnhnml
Gulliver's Travels - Houyhnhnmland
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 Swift poking fun at the talking horses or does he intend
for us to take them seriously as the proper way to act? If we look
closely at the way that the Houyhnhnms act, we can see that in fact
Swift does not take them seriously: he uses them to show the dangers
of pride.
First we have to see that Swift do....
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