One of the most interesting questions about Gulliver's Travels is whether the Houyhnhnms

represent his ideal of rationality or whether they are also part of Swift's satire. In Book IV, is Swift poking fun at the talking horses or does he intend for us to take them seriously. 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 does not even take Gulliver seriously. For instance, his name sounds much like gullible, which suggests that he will believe anything indicating that his perceptions of what is good an

read all the works of Charles Dickens, and that he can single handily recite the names of all the Kings and

One of the most interesting questions about Gulliver's Travels is whether the Houyhnhnms

Lemule Gulliver is clearly satirized as a human, but does that make the Houyhnhnms Swifts ideal society? 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 Viennese waltz. To my mind, they seemed like the greatest humans ever seen in court, even more dexterous than the Lord Edmund Burke"

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