Houyhnhnm Essays

Travels: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms, Jonathan Swift explains the journey of a man, Gulliver, to an island inhabited by Houyhnhnms. On this island, the roles are reversed to where the Yahoos, humans, are the lower beings, and the houyhnhnms, horses, are the superior beings. The houyhnhnms are creatures of honesty and justice while the yahoos are unteachable beings who run rampant. When looking at the main characters of this story—the houyhnhnms, the yahoos, and Gulliver—symbolize the

A dystopia is a fictional society that is the opposite of utopia. It is usually distinguished by an controlling or totalitarian form of government, or some other kind of tyrannical social control. Dystopia has been a frequent theme of popular and literary fiction ever since in the eighteenth century. Evolving not simply as a comeback to fictional utopian concerns, but also as a response to the established or menacing ideals and politics of the writer’s time, the dystopian novel tends to use its

THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN AHMAD ROBAI PERGURUAN TINGGI TEKNOKRAT Have you ever heard about Golden Mountain? A mountain made of hundred stacks of gold bars in circle, surrounding a big pole in the center which is also made by gold. Nobody knows who build or where does it come from, but what people know is that the Golden Mountain lays on the island far away from urban city. It takes 2 weeks trip using a ship from the nearest city if you want to go to Glodius Island, the island where the Golden Mountain

My alternate ending of Gullivers travel has more of an interesting twist. Instead of Gulliver’s son finding the little lamb, which helps prove his father truthful, he is going to see into the world of Gulliver’s tales bringing back more proof on why Gulliver is not crazy. During Gulliver’s court case, his son curiously peeks into a whale after hearing a quiet cry and falls inside. Surprisingly and magically, he enters into the world of Cookie Butter. Where all things are made of deserts and other

Satire in Gulliver’s Encounters Jonathan Swift has used Gulliver’s encounters to illustrate how human behaviors are portrayed by Yahoos and Houyhnhnms. He uses Gulliver to bring out the irony in human beings lives and how human beings hide their character when they want to appear good before people. Today human behavior is geared towards individual’s interests. Human behavior is full of selfishness at the expense of others. In the encounters, the character meets two creatures who are similar to

its pinnacle, where 'Swift put his most biting, hard lines, that speak against not only the government, but human nature itself' (Glicksman,Perceptions of Satire in Gulliver's Travels, 120). In this journey, as Gulliver comes to the land of the Houyhnhnms, who are creatures that look like horses but have the ability

more vital. He shows that Gulliver's self-deception and savagery is all caused by these very falsehoods in society. By comparing himself to the unnatural "natural" standards of the Houyhnhnms, Gulliver rebukes his own nature, as the Houyhnhnms rebuked the Yahoos. His devotion to truth, and the nature of the Houyhnhnms, causes him to go mad. Gulliver's evident devotion to a definite sort of truth-telling makes him a liar at his

Buddhists were looked down upon and mocked by the Daoist's. In Gulliver's Travels the Houyhnhnms looked down upon the yahoos. In both stories one particular group thought that they were better and superior to the other group. In both stories one particular group was enslaved by the other. In the Journey to the West the Buddhist were enslaved by the Daoist's. In Gullivers Travels the Yahoos were enslaved by the Houyhnhnms. The difference between the yahoos and buddhists were that the yahoos were treated

Following his time in Houyhnhnmland, Gulliver begins to see himself as a potential Houyhnhnm, a potentially perfectly reasonable and rational being. However, this state, of course, is not an option for man. The impossibility of perfect reason in man is presented to us clearly when Gulliver attempts to live a life of pure reason. As Kathleen Williams observed, “what is harmless and unavoidable self-satisfaction in a Houyhnhnm becomes in him a fanatic pride”. Pride is not a reasonable trait, it is a vice

in utopias are easier for us to understand than others. Life among the Houyhnhnms and in the fabled

“A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people”. This quote is perfect for this novel because Gulliver’s Travels judges the British society of the particular time period through the heart and soul of the main character Gulliver. Gulliver’s Travels makes many annotations on British society of their particular time period. As Gulliver visits different islands at the time he discovers many different societies and their people. All the societies that Gulliver discovers are used

types of animals Yahoos-ugly and repulsive brutes, Houyhnhnms- better and nice looking ones. He firstly confronts with Yahoos and they give him such a nasty and obnoxious treatment that culminates in disliking for them, which is converted into hatred owing to their disgusting appearance and mischievious way of life. Meantime, the Houyhnhnms behave outstandingly with him. This develops into fondness towards them. When he is so enamoured of Houyhnhnms, he starts hating man or equating Yahoos with men

Gulliver's Travels and The Great Gatsby are each considered to be two of the most remarkable and noteworthy novels of all time. Each of these novels tells a story about two completely different characters whose worlds are vastly distinctive from each other. Though there are many differences between each story, they both individually hold specific elements where the reader may pick apart the novels one by one and find a connection enclosed by the two. In the novel, Gulliver's Travels, one of the

gave satirical solutions to the Commonwealth’s concerns, Swift mirrored these political concerns through the narrator, Lemuel Gulliver. When Gulliver travels to Houyhnhnm, Jefferson S. Chase states Swift made the Houyhnhnms “the spokesman for a critique of humanity that he, at least to a large extent, sees as valid” (332), with the Houyhnhnms speak to a peaceful society governed by reason and honesty. They live in a sort of socialist republic, with the needs of the community put before individual desires

Although Swift is commonly labeled as a misanthrope due to his censure shown throughout the entirety of his novel, there is evidence that he has more hope for humanity than he’s given credit for. The Lilliputians, Brobdingnagians, Laputans, and Houyhnhnms are evidence of Swift’s misanthropy, while Pedro de Mendez shows how not all people fit into his stereotyping. Gulliver’s first expedition leaves him shipwrecked on the Island of Lilliput, where the other inhabitants are only six inches

Enlightenment was a time of embracing logic and reasoning whilst rejecting untested beliefs and superstition. This time period occurred from the year 1694 until 1795. During this time writers used their medium of the written word to express their beliefs based on logic while denouncing old-world ideologies . During Enlightenment human nature was often put under scrutiny as thinkers strived to find what qualities resulted in the best possible human. In this piece of writing, the reader will be able

Johnathan Swift’s novel, Gulliver’s Travels, demonstrates this miserable and dreadful consequence of human life managed only by reason. The Houyhnhnms is a society that represents the ultimate end of the Enlightenment thinkers by removing emotion and passion from their lives. Gulliver describes the Houyhnhnms understanding of reason “Neither is reason among them a point problematical, as with us, where men can argue with plausibility on both sides of the question, but strikes

Paragraph 1: When Gulliver is faced with the morally perfect Houyhnhnms, Gulliver speaks of such terms as “lust, intemperance, malice and envy” that would be easy to contemplate to any normal being, but the Master Horse is unable to fulfil this seemingly easy task and can only understand with a demonstration of “suppositions”. The irony here is used to evidently mocking human morality as in other parts of the novel such as in book 2 and 1 where Gulliver mostly discusses the “power, government, war

In Gulliver’s last travel, he discovers the Houyhnhnms, horses whose society is entirely built on Reason. But the Houyhnhnms are not human: they ignore the vices of Lilliput, but they ignore also love and friendship. Swift was a lucid observer not only of public life, but generally of human beings. He knew the weaknesses of human nature

subject to such devastation. Swift clearly does not think so, as Gulliver’s Houyhnhnm master tells him “…when a creature pretending to reason could be capable of such enormities, he dreaded lest the corruption of that faculty might be worst than brutality itself. He seemed therefore confident, that instead of reason, we were only possessed of some quality fitted to increase our natural vices…” (Swift 354). The Houyhnhnms are creatures that are led