Guliver's Travel

A detailed Summary of 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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