Explication Essay on Gulliver's Travels
Date Submitted: 08/13/2001 19:07:57
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 2 pages (545 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 2 pages (545 words)
"My wife and family received me with great surprise and joy, because they concluded me certainly dead; but I must freely confess the sight of them filled me only with hatred, disgust, and contempt, and the more by reflecting on the near alliance I had to them. For, although since my unfortunate exile from the Houyhnhnm country, I had compelled myself to tolerate the sight of Yahoos, and to converse with Don Pedro de Mendez, …
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…conclusion this paragraph establishes that humans are as revolting as the Yahoos and anyone who has been to the Houyhnhnms land would not be able to stand people afterwards. That humans attitudes, appearances, and acts are not like the Houyhnhnms even though people like to think of themselves like them. Some people many be a little more Houyhnhnm then Yahoo, but not to Swift. In his opinion people were no better than a filthy animal.
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