REASON VS. PASSION

While reading Gulliver’s Travels, I have been noticing a lot of reason vs. passion through out the story. Reason, in my point of view is thinking before doing; making the right decisions. While on the other hand passion is making decisions based on emotions. This story explains how the Yahoo’s decisions are not thought out so they act in a form passion. The Yahoo’s have been described as a group with reasoning and acting upon their emotions according to this quote from the story one can see that the Yahoo’s care about themselves only, “ For if you throw among five Yahoos as much food as would be sufficient for fifty, they will, instead of eating peaceably, fall together by the ears, each single one impatient to have all to itself” ( Swift 460). To me this is a good example to give the reader a good example to let the reader know how passionate the Yahoos can be when it comes themselves. In contrast of the yahoos way of being, Gulliver insist that people need to be govern by reason, in the story he states “ That our institutions of government and law were plainly owing to our gross defects in reason, and by consequence, in virtue, because reason alone is sufficient to govern a rational creature” ( Swift 460). I took this as him saying that reason is all you need to govern people.