This is a blog created by a world literature instructor at a community college.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Chaos
Gulliver comes from a land of society and order, government and classes. As a traveler he should know by now that there are some places in this world that are not civilized. The horses represent these unexplored or discovered land and people. Their chaos in Gulliver's eyes in their eyes it is order and in Gulliver's society the Horses see it has chaos. Order needs chaos and chaos needs order. I think about the phrase, "organized chaos," and that is what the horses have. Their society works for them it is order and to other, their lack of emotion and social manners might look and appear to be chaos. Gulliver critizes his society of order, I think this is an over use of persuasion. Everything Gulliver states is wrong; murder, slavery, classes and royalty can be chaotic when being established. If the horses could see the greater good of it, which by the way Gulliver seems to be hiding. Yes, we are still working out hte kinks. The horses remind me of the Avatar movie, the people (like the horses) have their own society and order. We see them as savages that are crazy and random. Them, along as the horses, are all connected whether it be their surrounding or sharing of off springs. This may seem chaotic but it presents a common slate. There connot be an anarchy when everyone is somewhere close to being on the same page. Now let me be clear, I am not syaing there is a hierarchy among the Horses, it is hust not as dramatic leap in class as there was in the Enlightenment period.
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