Gulliver's Travels Gulliver's Mental/Emotional State Essay

There is also the revelation by Swift that a self-love mechanism can be resorted from self loathing.

Examples of pride that Swift satirizes

Metaphors are used in the voyages to bring out the specific aspects of swift's satire. The human affair is stripped of their grandeur through the scale of life reduction in Lilliput. Ranks, international war and politics lose their importance. Human pride is also satirized when Gulliver in the second voyager is a Lilliputian. The grossness of human habits and forms are highlighted by the relative size of Brobdingnagians who illustrate some positive attributes in comparison to the Lilliputians who depict human pretension and pride pettiness. Swift also satirizes the Houyhnhnms perfect reason representation that is unimpeded by excessive emotions or irrationality. Humans defect are highlighted by the domestic animal absurdity of displaying more characteristics of humanity than the humans themselves. This is shown in the Yahoo whose higher reason have been stripped even though they act and look like humans. It is not only shocking but revelatory to the reader and Gulliver who from a vantage point remote of a man are forced to evaluate this behavior.There is sharp satire of the pride in human nature superior to the bestial nature. The ideal human nature is not Houyhnhnms either. They are used by swift to depict how reason without love, empathy and compassion is not an adequate enough method to address the many aspects of the human situation.

There is also the satire of the prideful aggrandizement of the Houyhnhnms when they don't use their knowledge for the benefit of the entire society. When the Houyhnhnms visits the French Royal Society in Lilliput, we see that the indication of Houyhnhnms need not to be taken seriously at the room where the scientist who has been doing so for many years, is trying to turn water into wine. The Houyhnhnms knows what to do and even though the scientist's goal has been accomplished, he is left unhappy because the Houyhnhnms has destroyed his livelihood......