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Leader Of The Houyhnhnms Gulliver Travels Swift
818 wordsOne of the most interesting questions about Gulliver's Travels is whether the Houyhnhnms represent an ideal of rationality or whether onthe other hand they are the butt of Swift's satire. In other words, in Book IV, is Swift poking fun at the talking horses or does he intend for to take them seriously as the proper way to act? If we look closely atthe way that the Houyhnhnms act, we can see that in fact Swift does noritake them seriously: he uses them to show the dangers of pride. First we have ...
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Rikki Tavi The War Story
1,249 wordsKiplings Rikki Rikki Tavi has all the necessary parts of a battle story. It is full of battles, war tactics, good, evil, motive, song, and drama. A battle story needs a gripping introduction, one that hints at the battles to come and one that brings the reader in with an exciting anticipation. This story first begins with a poem of the brave Rikki Rikki angrily chasing death with a lust to kill. It right away shows the necessary bravery and strength of the protagonist / hero and the might and ev...
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Gulliver Travels Royal Society
1,215 wordsGulliver in Houynhnmland One of the most interesting questions about Gulliver s Travels is whether the Houyhnhnms represent an ideal of rationality or whether on the other hand they are the butt of Swifts satire. In other words, in Book IV, is Swift poking fun at the talking horses or does he intends for us to take them seriously as the proper way to act? If we look closely at the way that the Houyhnhnms act, we can see that in fact Swift does not take them seriously: he uses them to show the da...
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Gulliver Travels Jonathan Swift
3,070 wordsThe tale of Gulliver? s Travels can be described as a written criticism of the society in which Swift lived. In each of the worlds Gulliver encountered the problems he saw with the civilizations were actually the political and social aspects Jonathan Swift disliked about his own world. He also accomplishes this by giving the inhabitants of these worlds superior traits and attitudes in order to compare them to and belittle the culture that surrounded Swift. An example of this could be the intelle...
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Gentlemen Callers Amanda One
390 wordsThe Glass Menagerie I found the character of the mother Amanda Wingfield really quite annoying to listen to after a few moments of hearing her. It brought back many memories of my ex-husband? s mother. She was just as much a nag as Amanda. A person could never sit down at the dinner table without her yelling at someone to get his or her elbows off the table, or chew with one? s mouth close. Like in Scene 1, where amanda asks Tom to come to the table, reminds me of when I used to hate dinnertime ...
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Rikki Rikki Tavi Rikki Rikki Battle
1,273 wordsKipling? s Rikki Rikki Tavi has all the necessary parts of a battle story. It is full of battles, war tactics, good, evil, motive, song, and drama. A battle story needs a gripping introduction, one that hints at the battles to come and one that brings the reader in with an exciting anticipation. This story first begins with a poem of the brave Rikki Rikki angrily chasing death with a lust to kill. It right away shows the necessary bravery and strength of the protagonist / hero and the might and ...
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