Quiz Alternate QuestionIn Book I, we noted some of the ways Swift attacks
human pride by his deliberately vulgar and embarrassing
presentations of bodily functions. In Book IV, he has the
bodies of three species to work with, and develops a somewhat more
complex attitude toward the body. Examine how Swift presents the bodies
of Gulliver, the Yahoos, and the Houyhnhnms, and pull the pieces
together to reveal how
Swift implies we should think about our bodies and what they
should mean to us. |