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Gulliver's Travels: Gulliver And Swift's Separate Personalities
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In Gulliver's Travels, Swift and his character, Gulliver, have separate personalities. Swift does not express his views through Gulliver, but through the foreign societies and cultures that Gulliver sees (though is unable to put into a critical perspective).
Gulliver remarks about the Lilliputians ....
Middle of essay ....er systems being used by the Laputans (to everyone's disadvantage) ridicules the idea of overthinking in something. The Laputans deal in the conceptual rather than in the sensible, resulting in ludicrous theories and ideas.
The Houyhnhnms of Book IV likewise prize the rational, but instead of satirizing them as idiots, Swift shows them to be simply cold. The horses' single-minded rationality deprives them of access to love, art, and other impracticalities that help offset the heartless aspects o.... |
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