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- Free of excessive emotions
- Free from irrationality
- Reasoned, scientific
1. Lilliputians = pettiness, smallness
- Meaningless fighting, Blefuscu (egg)
- Church and state
2. Brobdingnagians = human digust, scrutiny
- Exaggerated flaws
- Humans = repulsive
3. Laputa = folly of useless thought, science
- Impractical
- Theories do not benefit society
3. Houyhnhnms and Yahoos
- Yahoos = Animal instinct, irrational
- Houyhnhnms = highly rational
Gulliver, common 18th century man who believes in:
Houyhnhnms, a utopia that nations strive to achieve
The "utopian" Houyhnhnm community is a satirical world in which all are reasoned and perfect; however, life becomes less meaningful -- in fact, dull.
Thus, Gulliver's Travels admonishes against such perfection and explains that man cannot be perfect.
Rationality
Perfection (humanity)
Progress
Human mind, a blank slate
Swift, on the other hand, disapproved of or doubted such beliefs.
Used Gulliver as a means to admonish against such beliefs
Each microcosm displays several trivial/inane aspects of science, conflict and politics
1. Irrational conflict (eggs)
2. Rational thought (utopia)
3. "Proper" way to crack an egg
4. Attacks on political system
- rope jumping contest
5. Laputian science; negative effects
- Warfare, conflicts
- Religion
- Land
- Political Systems
- Perfection
Conclusion:
- Humans excessive pride = Lilli.
- Humans under close scrunity = Brob.
- Folly of useless theories, sci. = Laputa
- Worthless rational existence = Houy.
- religion, politics, science, international relations (war)