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A paper which looks at Book IV of Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' and considers the similarities between the Yahoos and human beings, and Gulliver's reaction to his exposure to Yahoo society.
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7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JL5_JLyahoo.rtf
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In Swifts account of Gullivers meeting with the Yahoos and the Houyhnhnms, there
is a savage satire on the worst characteristics of the human race in the presentation of the Yahoos, and the horror and disgust which Gulliver feels on encountering these creatures
is rendered far more significant by the fact that he constantly recognises elements of human behaviour in that of the Yahoos. At the same time, the society of the horses,
the Houyhnhnms, is held up as the ideal to which humans should aspire to, and acts as a continual contrast to the behaviour of the Yahoos, and by implication, to
the majority of human beings. The Houyhnhnms are
constantly presented as the epitome of civilisation, reason and wisdom, and it is evidently a source of considerable distress to Gulliver that he finds himself preferring an alien, and technically
animal, species to his own. However, throughout the narrative, Gulliver finds more and more correspondences between the lives of the Yahoos to those of human beings, and even though he
considers himself to be a far more civilised specimen of the human race than the Yahoos, he cannot deny that their way of life is an uncomfortably close parallel to
that of human beings. For example, he describes the strange
and irrational behaviour which the Yahoos demonstrate in their search for the stones which they collect. It is clear that these stones do not have any intrinsic value, in that
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