Gullivers Travels - Houyhnhnml
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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 ....
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.... 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 ....
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