ENGL 231 Chapter : Week 9 GT Round 1
15 Mar 2019
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In part 4 of gulliver"s travels we see that gulliver finds himself in a very similar situation as. He is a stranger in a strange land. I was very surprised when gulliver willingly left his pregnant wife and kids to go back to sea. This strange land is filled with wild animals called. A major theme in this section is the imperfect nature of humans. Swift portrays humans as disgusting, hairy, beastly creatures. I think swift was trying to make the point that as humans, we are all political and social animals. When swift describes the poor character traits and qualities of the yahoos, i believe he intended for readers to make the connection to social and political parallels. Gulliver quickly realized that the only difference between him and the yahoos were his clothes and sense of reason.
