n writing Gulliver's Travels, Swift has every right to make attacks on corruption of eighteenth century English society because writers of our modern day society make the same attacks on society today. Swift makes it clear that these sorts of actions such as racism, humanism, and morality need to be addresses and dealt with. When it comes to modern day society, We see poets like Mia Angelo make the same type of attacks on society with regards to the days of segregation and slavery in the south. Clearly, there is a link in the way writers and poets of the past see society in relations to writers and poets of today. Swift gives us as readers the need to see society for what it is and understand how we interact with it and how much of an effect that it can have on use as individual. In Gulliver's journeys there was a complete changing of a man from his initial voyage to the end where he came home to greet his wife and child in which he never met. The coldness and lack of emotion clearly gives us a picture or how we can change as a result of witnessing utter acts of greed, betrayal and corruption as a result of coming to terms with who we as humans (yahoos) really are. But in all the madness we see characters like Captain Mendez and the virtues that he as a man exemplifies. We must ask ourselves, does this man represent a hope or example for all; a beacon of light in the darkness of this world? I would tend to say yes. I think that the Houyhnhnm represents the Martin Luther Kings, and John F. Kennedy's or our society past and present. The representation of people in the face of adversity and confusion as well as corruption tried to make peace and bring society as well as the world together as a whole. These men were present in times of great chaos in society and exemplified something that was necessary in today's society. I also think that we should all aspire to grow and truly understand virtues and reason like Gulliver did a...
