n to Europe, but decides that he would rather live with the barbarians that he once lived with, than with the uncivilized Yahoos. When Gulliver does arrive in England, he is filled with disgust and disgrace for them. For a year he cannot stand to be with his family, but instead buys two horses and speaks with them. Why is Gulliver’s behavior very strange at the end of Book IV?Gulliver’s strange behavior can only be described as repugnance for the human race and the way that the society is. After living with the Houyhnhnms, and observing the lifestyle of the Yahoos, Gulliver sees himself and others as simply dumb Yahoos. This does not satisfy him, so he therefor chooses to converse with horses rather than his own kind.Gulliver’s perceptions of himself and the people and things around him change, giving Swift a great opportunity to inject into the story both irony and satire of the England society of his day and the human condition. In this example, Gulliver’s attained hate for the human race, because of the Yahoos gives a perfect satire example of the community in England during that period....
