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A 4 page paper which examines and analyzes the Yahoos in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. No additional source cited.
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societies and political systems. It is a story that takes Gulliver from one place to another wherein he begins to symbolically, and realistically, see how the English culture he came
from was less than desirable or noble than he had previously thought. In the beginning of this story he is proud to be an Englishman but in his last voyage
he has come to see that the English are perhaps less than worthy of their station in humanity. In this final voyage he also meets Yahoos, which further drive this
point home. The following paper analyzes the Yahoos in Swifts novel. Yahoos in Swifts Gullivers Travels As mentioned in the introduction, by the time that Gulliver has come
to his final journey, his final place of discovery, he has encountered many different types of people, humans, that have gradually led him to understand how various types of focus
or rule are wrong and not enlightened and how they seem to reflect much of what England, Gullivers homeland, is all about. This final place is ruled, and ruled justly
and intelligently, by horses. He finds them incredibly enlightened, intelligent, and ultimately they embody everything a human should be. Ironically, they keep humans, Yahoos, as servants of a sort.
As Gulliver learns their language he has come to hear the word "Yahoo" over and over and he has little understanding of who or what they are aside from the
fact that they are seemingly less important than any intelligent creature. When he first really sees a Yahoo, and realizes that it is a Yahoo, he is truly taken aback,
and disgusted as well: "My horror and astonishment are not to be described, when I observed in this abominable animal, a perfect human figure" (Swift IV ii). He makes reference
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