This is a blog created by a world literature instructor at a community college.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Nature Vs. Society
In today’s world we think of society with strong order to be able to keep things under control. Well during Jonathan Swifts story Gulliver Traveler he will try and explain and show how he lived in his world to the creatures of the nature. Even though throughout the story, Gulliver tries on many occasions to explain to the horse like creatures of his society. On the other hand he sees that nature is a free way of living even though in nature they have still some short of government and chain of command. For example when Gulliver was captured by the horse like creatures he could see that they had servants, masters and young ones some sort of a government, just like in his society that he tries to explain to his master. While also having some sort of language so they could have communication between them. (Swift 445). On the other hand, when Gulliver is trying to explain to them about the lawyers and how is government is the only thing that did was make them more confused about who he was. Gulliver went on by saying “Power, government, war, law, punishment, and a thousand other things had no terms, wherein that language could express them: which made the difficulty almost insuperable to give my master any conception of what I mean.” (Swift 451). By stating this quote, we can see that yes he did try to explain to them where he came from to only confused them more because he could not fully express the capableness of what he was unlike and untamed yahoo.
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