Gulliver's fourth voyage in the book can be seen as one of the greatest satirical expositions on human nature in perhaps all of literature. As with all of Gulliver's travels, Swift gives us a satirical look as the world in which he lived. This fourth travel, however, goes somewhat deeper than merely being a satirical attack on one political mechanism or particular custom as was the case in the previous voyages and takes us on a satirical voyage of our own through the depths of human nature itself by way of Swift's depiction of the Houyhnhnms, the brighter and more ideal components of our nature, and the Yahoos, the darker and more beastial aspects of the human condition.
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