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A 3 page research paper that offers two examples of description from Part 4 of Gulliver's Travels and discusses how description shapes the reader's response to the narrative. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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British society. In part IV of the novel, Gulliver goes to sea yet again. This time the crew mutinies and leaves Gulliver on an unknown shore. On this island, humans
are animal-like in their behavior and they have been domesticated by intelligent horses who refer to humans as "Yahoos" and themselves as "Houyhnhnms." As this suggests, this section of
the novel offers a satirical examination of the inevitable result of denigrating basic human nature. By having Gulliver espouse the virtues of the horses, and also having him try to
rectify the foibles of his own race, Swift parodies the religious zeal of the "born-again believer," as well as the "paradoxical nature of radical Christianitys desire to exhort to perfection
that very human nature which it condemns" (Thickstun 517). As this suggests, in this section of Gullivers Travels, Swift exposes the paradox within Puritan thinking that argued that
humanity is saved by grave alone, but also stipulates that individuals have to work hard in order to perfect themselves (Thickstun 517). By the time he returns to England, Gulliver
has so rejected his own nature, which he equates with bestiality and sin (i.e., the Puritan perspective carried to its logical extreme) that it takes him months before he
can bring himself to sit at the same table with his wife. Swift sets the stage for making this reaction from Gulliver believable within the context of the novel
through his use of descriptive detail. First of all, Swift describes the disgusting, animal nature of the Yahoos. The Yahoos that Gulliver spies in a field are so different
from himself that he does not recognize them as human beings. They have far more hair, with thick hair covering their heads and breasts and there is also a ridge
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