Gulliver's Travels, Book IV

Quiz Alternate Question

In 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.

Due: Wednesday, November 19.