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immorality in gulliver's travels

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immorality in gulliver's travels

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- "happy notion" - gains wisdom - achieves greatness - makes life better - yet, the knowledge of never dying makes them bitter and self-absorbed

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laputians

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flying island with people who have their "head in the clouds" (literally), likely to fall off the island because they're so absentminded, live their life through abstract calculations that don't work in the real world

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gulliver's return home

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- makes a canoe out of yahoo skin, sees humans as objects used for his own purpose - hates his family upon returning and seeing them - most angry that humans back home think that they're reasonable, and claim superiority through this

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effects of gulliver's journey

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- enable revelation of illusions behind human dreams - with travel, he is stripped of illusions -

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gulliver's travels part 1

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- leaves to travel to make money for his family - shipwrecks on island where tiny men imprison him - offers to help the king in the war - after defeating enemies, gulliver finally leaves the island

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gulliver

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- narrator - scientific mind - obsessive need for scientific objectivity - honest - adapts to the groups that he meets - middle class - antisocial

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swift

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- irish - suspicious of ideas of english superiority - ancient poetry is better than modern poetry - attacks claims that we are more civilized in the 18th c. - satirical

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lagado

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- invented machine to build sentences - irony is that it doesn't actually create anything - reflects need to standardize language at the time - lagadians decide that since words are representative of things, they muddle the truth, so they just carry a ton of stuff around

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yahoos

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- humans - driven by power and self-interest - horse is reason, humans are animality (reversal of hierarchy) - reason makes them worse than animals - causes disillusionment of gulliver

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Houyhnhnms

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- horse-like - love is social, marriages have no jealousy because simply for good of whole species - no concept of lying - no concept of evil - no need for government because they're all so honest and good - knowledge is practical and empirical - purely oral society

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