For the Houyhnhnms in their country is similar the Humans in Europe. ... The Houyhnhnms place is where reason is the backbone of everything. ... Where the white, sorrel, and gray coat Houyhnhnms are to be "naturally" inferior of the bay, black, and dapple-gray coat Houyhnhnms. ... The Houyhnhnms treat them as servants and like trash. ... Humans show pride unlike the Yahoos and the Houyhnhnms. ...
In the novel, the Houyhnhnms show us a vivid example of Yahoos' unreasonable desire. ... Once the Houyhnhnm removed the stones where a Yahoo had buried them. ... In the novel, Houyhnhnms' way of thinking and doing are quite reasonable. ... "Midway between the poles of the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos, Swift places Gulliver. ... Houyhnhnms mislead Gulliver and even mislead themselves. ...
In the story the main character, Lemuel Gulliver, finds himself stranded on an island inhabited by horses called Houyhnhnms. ... Soon Gulliver discovers many more aspects which show that the Houyhnhnms live in what appears to be a perfect existence. ... There is no presence of love or affection in the family lives of the Houyhnhnms. ... The idea that the perfect Houyhnhnm community can be duplicated in our own is absurd. ... In other words the Houyhnhnms" society is perfect for Houyhnhnms, but it is hopeless for humans. ...
Through these talks Gulliver is edified by the Houyhnhnms? ... The Houyhnhnms do not have a religion or a belief in a higher being. ... The Houyhnhnms are the only truly rational beings. ... The Houyhnhnms do not look like humans. ... This is why Houyhnhnms are less like man than Yahoos. ...
For further debunking of man's vices and follies, Swift turns to the fantastic Yahoos and Houyhnhnms. ... The Houyhnhnms serve as an illustration of what happens to man when he is situated on the other end of the spectrum, lacking in emotion. The Houyhnhnms are rational horses whose actions are governed by total reason. ... With great effectiveness, Swift uses the Houyhnhnms to satirize the belief that a man of pure rationality is the only complete man. ... His own pride though, makes him denounce the Yahoos outright, entreating that the Houyhnhnms forbear calling him by such an appellati...
After meeting the Laputans, Gulliver meets the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos. The Houyhnhnms are horses who live a simple life. ... Gulliver will not have left the Houyhnhnms if he isn't asked to leave this place. The other Houyhnhnms have taken offense at his being in the house as a Houyhnhnm. ... When he goes back to England, he even thinks like the Houyhnhnms and he acts like them. ...
The decision made by the Houyhnhnms to expel or banish Gulliver from their lands triggers an emotional and heart wrenching departure for him. ... The men are nothing but vile Yahoos in his eyes devoid of reason and understanding and unable to reach the limits of perfection personified by the Houyhnhnms. ... The years with the Houyhnhnms had severely changed Gulliver and instilled within him utter contempt for everyone and everything that was not Houyhnhnm. ... Gulliver has been so blinded by his experiences with the Houyhnhnms that he is incapable of ascertaining kindness and decency from...
He is confronted by two Houyhnhnms. He tells us that the Houyhnhnms are horse-like creatures. He learns of the food of the Houyhnhnms. ... He learns of the Houyhnhnm culture. The author has a great improvement in virtue by conversing with the Houyhnhnms. ...
His opinion of the Yahoos contrasts with his opinion of the Houyhnhnms. The Houyhnhnms think Gulliver is another Yahoo capable of outstanding intellect, but Gulliver is offended that they want to classify him as a Yahoo. ... The Houyhnhnms seem to embody virtue and all the perfections that humans seek, but there are inconsistencies in their behavior that are reflective human faults. A final indication that the Houyhnmns are an attack on humanity is shown when the leader of the Houyhnhnms visits Lilliput where he visits the French Royal Society. ... Throughout Gulliver Travels, th...
As often seen, he is ready to praise any Houyhnhnms and to condemn the others. ... As he is explaining to his Houyhnhnm master, he shows how these two are influencing his country's leaders. ... This is one of the Yahoo's values that his Houyhnhnm master can't understand. ... The importance of reasoning is brought through the voice of his master (the reader should know that Houyhnhnms are the horses ruling the island he visited). ... The critics he makes are always referred as Yahoo's and Houyhnhnm's values. ...
Swift shares his views and sentiments about these changes, specifically in "A Voyage to Lilliput- and "A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms-, with his gripping, elaborate satire, which is still surprisingly easy to follow. ... However, the Houyhnhnms themselves still regard him as superior to the Yahoos, as shown by sorrel nag, his guide in this land, seeking to protect him from the howling Yahoo. Not long after this incident, the Houyhnhnms decide that the Yahoos are a nuisance in their land and must be exterminated, and they realize that Gulliver certainly doesn't belong in there and must be sent...
Most Critics say that Gulliver is the "persona" of author, Jonathan Swift (Scott; A Casebook on Gulliver among the Houyhnhnms; pgs. 81-82). ... However, at the end of the novel, Gulliver's true feelings towards society are let out and you are now able to see what the faults of society truly are (Moore; A Casebook on Gulliver among the Houyhnhnms; pgs. 95-107). ... The fourth and final volume of the novel takes place in a place where, unlike the "real" world, animals rule humans, and the human beings are not as smart as the Houyhnhnms are. ... However much Gulliver attempts to become m...
But if Lemule Gulliver is satirized, so are the Houyhnhnms, whose voices sound like the call of castrati. ... As this quote demonstrates, Gulliver is terribly impressed, but his admiration for the Houyhnhnms is short-lived because they are so prideful. For instance, the leader of the Houyhnhnms claims that he has read all the works of Charles Dickens, and that he can singlehandedly recite the names of all the Kings and Queens of England up to George II. Swift subtly shows that this Houyhnhnms pride is misplaced when, in the middle of the intellectual competition, he forgets the name of Que...
The Houyhnhnm talks about how "if a cow died of age or accident, before a Houyhnhnm could secure it for his own Yahoos, those in the neighborhood would come in herds to seize it, and then would ensue such a battle." The Houyhnhnm also tells about the "shining stones of several colors" that "when two Yahoos discovered such a stone in a field, and were contending which of them should be the proprietor, a third would take the advantage, and carry it away from them both," which would "contend to have some resemblance with suits of law." ...
Swift's European readers assumed that he is telling them to become more Houyhnhnm-like, and to deviate from their Yahoo ways. ... In this voyage, Gulliver acts as the median of the purely rational and the purely sensual: a median or mixture between Houyhnhnm and Yahoo. Gulliver is repelled by what he sees in the Yahoo, and seeks to become as nearly as possible a Houyhnhnm. ... Monk, author of The Sublime: A Study of Critical Theories in 18th Century England, says this on Gulliver's desire to become something more than what he inherently was, "Though the Houyhnhnms never acknowl...
Lilliput, Bobdingnag, Laputa, and the land of the Houyhnhnms are all lands in Swift's Gulliver's Travels that represent places in England. ... Gulliver arrives in the land of the Houyhnhnms. The Houyhnhnms are thoroughly rational creatures who look like horses. ... The Houyhnhnms evict him from their paradise as they think he is an undesirable alien. He goes back to Europe and strives to be rational like the Houyhnhnms but he soon forgets his intensity and begins to be able to tolerate the human race again (Swift, Critical Survey of Long Fiction 3145). ...
He is stuck in a country where there is limbo between the humane Houyhnhnms, and the untamed Yahoos. Gulliver then goes on to meet one of the Houyhnhnms. ... Instead of leaving right away Gulliver stays, and instead of seeing the world through his eyes, we see them through the Houyhnhnms. ... He sees that the Houyhnhnms have no emotion which makes their society hopeless for humans. However, Gulliver likes that side of the Houyhnhnms. ...
For example, by the end of the book, Gulliver has gone insane from all his travels and is even afraid of his own wife after his experiences with the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos. ... These recruits turnout to be buccaneers who take over the ship and send Gulliver drifting on a small boat in which he lands on Houyhnhnms land. From the moment Gulliver lands on the island he meets Yahoos and Houyhnhnms, but he cannot comprehend that these ugly Yahoo creatures are actually human. ... This shows that Gulliver misses the concept of the Houyhnhnm way and could never fully become pure because of this...
The endless bickering between Lilliput and Blefuscu, the behavior of the Yahoos, the characteristics of the Houyhnhnms, and the experiments of the Grand Academy of Lagado are all vehicles to convey Swift's opinions of man and society. ... In the country in which these creatures live, horses called Houyhnhnms are superior to the human-like Yahoos. ...
Finally, on Gulliver's fourth adventure he arrives again as a stranger in a land full of horses or Houyhnhnms and Yahoos. ... As Gulliver continues his travels he travels through the floating island of Laputa and finally he comes to a land of Houyhnhnms. ... The reader watches Gulliver as he falls in love with the Houyhnhnms world of simplicity. ... The Lilliputians, Brobdingnags, and Houyhnhnms all help Swift use the stranger in a strange land motif to create a great satire. ...
Lastly, in the country of the Houyhnhnms, power is exemplified through the social statuses of each inhabitant. The so called yahoos living inland are ridiculed by the Houyhnhnms, and they, too have servants and have made one of Gulliver. ... Aside from Gulliver's home in England, the majority of the novel is set on islands he expedites to outside of England, the three main ones Lilliput, Brobdingnag, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. ... These creatures both big and small are fictional as well as the civilized, talking horses in Houyhnhnm territory. ...
On this journey, Gulliver travels to the land of the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos. The Houyhnhnms are horse-like creatures that are extremely intelligent and advanced. The Yahoos are ape-like creatures, used as slaves by the Houyhnhnms, which are very appalling and degenerate. The Houyhnhnms eventually banish him from their society and insist that he must return to live with his own kind. ...
Gulliver's character is completely altered throughout his visits to Lulliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and Houyhnhnm. ... In the fourth and final book, Gulliver's travels bring him to Houyhnhnm where he abandons his previous understanding of human nature, along with his Horatian traits which are replaced by Juvenalian ones. The Houyhnhnms possess reason and benevolence, and selfish appetites and brutish awareness are left for the Yahoos. ...
Gulliver, leaving the Houyhnhnms, says that he "took a second leave of my master, but as I was going to prostrate myself to kiss his hoof, he did me the honor to raise it gently to my mouth." (Swift 326) Swift was certainly so detailed as a satirist that most of his early readers misjudge the section on the Houyhnhnms. ... Therefore he opened up the unrealistic scientists of Laputa and the objective but totally sensible, Houyhnhnms as examples of science and reason passed to absurd heights. ...
