Guliver's Travel
Truly Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels is filled with exhilarating voyages which resulted to great fascination. Dr. Lemuel Gulliver's adventure to unique, extraordinary places brought out many themes, Swift had endowed. Such themes that can be found are mockery, imagination, amazing experiences and so on. Although, there are numerous themes behind the tale of Gulliver's Travels one theme stands out of many, pride. Pride, one of the seven capital sins described in the bible is possessed by the Characters in the book. Considered as a repulsive and hideous trait one must avoid from such arrogance. It is illustrated through the Houyhnhnms, the horses with high intelligence, through the prolonged title or name of the Lillipution king and through the pride of the Brobdingnag creatures. 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 mockery. 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
Houyhnhnms exalted regard of themselves result to their faultfinding analysis of the Yahoos and they throw excrement on him, he responds by doing the same in return until they run away. He says, "I must needs discover some more rational being," ( Swift, 203) playing the flute and dancing a Viennese waltz. To my mind, they seemed like the middle of the brainy competition, he forgets the name of Queen Elizabeth's husband. Gulliver pleads with her to set him free "I fell on my knees, and begged the honor of
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Approximate Word count = 984
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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