me to give some Account of myself, and desired to know what I would eat or drink; said I should be used as well as himself, and spoke so many obliging things , that I wondered to find such Civilities from a yahoo. 4Gulliver was on the island for two years and he thought that he would never see any civilization again, therefore when Gulliver encounters the captain he is blinded by such human goodness. He realizes that the captain is more than civil; he is kind and thoughtful. He’s not just doing the proper thing by rescuing him, but acting out of true kindness. He is being treated with thoughtfulness beyond anything he has received from the Houyhnhnms. Gulliver did not realize that the captain was a nice man until they rescued him. Elizabeth Bennet, prejudged Darcy on Wickham’s opinion of him before she was able to find out for herself, “Elizabeth is clearly a victim of her prejudice against Darcy, for she is completely deceived by Wickham’s story.” Both the novels Pride and Prejudice and Gulliver’s Travels contain many acts of civilization but Pride and Prejudice is full of people acting with civility but with little genuine kindness. And yet civility as a means of uncivilization is the main subject of Gulliver’s Travels. Civilization, as seen in the novels Pride and Prejudice and Gulliver’s Travels, is depicted as an act of human nature as compared to the act of savages. Human beings can be civilized and uncivilized depending on the way the reason things out or the way they act in a certain situations Swift stated, “never doubt that man should make use of reason to control bad instincts where he can not live by reason alone is neither possible nor desirable if we are to remain human beings. In other words, human beings should not live by reason alone because they will not get far in life. The characters of Pride and Prejudice do not act like savages in ways that...
