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The Travels of Lemuel Gulliver.
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... 18th Century Spectator The Travels of Lemuel Gulliver Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, is regarded as one of the greatest satires in modern history. The purpose of the book, although some of the people of the time didn't realize it, is to critizise his government, his rulers, and human nature as a whole. His generalization of the human condition doesn't show itself completely until Part IV of the book, where the main character Lemuel Gulliver finds himself on an island inhabited by two main species. On the island there are the Houyhnhnms, horse-like animals and the Yahoos, human-like animals. The difference between this island and reality as we know it is the fact that the Houyhnhnms are intelligent, noble creatures governed wholly by reason and logic and the Yahoos are naked, dirty creatures that seem at best barbaric and vile. The purpose of Part IV is to show the extremes of
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