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...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 1463
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 371
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

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Swift - through Gulliver - seems to long for the Utopian society found in the land of the Houyhnhnms. ... The first two voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag focus primarily on the negative aspects of English government and society, while the third and fourth voyages to Laputa and the Houyhnhnms are more general critiques of basic human nature. ...

• Word Count: 1156
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate