ENGLISH 45B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Utopia
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Coleridge - critics complain of the2 yahoos, i complain of the hyon . What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in acting how like an angel, in apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals, and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? . Great chain of being (a) nature is complete; whole, coherent -----> unified design (b) nature is completely connected via a hierarchy (god, angels, man, animals, plants, Human beings can progress due to rational thinking (1) opposing: whigs vs: tories: human nature is fixed (c) swift determined the definition is capable of reason, not necessarily. Point: how to tell the difference between animal body & living body, especially human. ***gulliver, especially in part iv, has role reversals with animals"; contemplates his place among. Often studies yahoos like a philosopher by merely observing them.
