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Madame Bovoary

their kind view the world and the place of creatures and their abilities. In chap V, Gulliver begins to describe to his master the art or war, the reason why it is started and the masses that are killed as a result of was and his master inquires how this is true due to the frailness of the human body. Gulliver (correcting the immature conclusions of his Master) explains the different kinds of weaponry used to win War and as Gulliver explains this he says to himself "I could not forbear shaking my head and a smile a little at his ignorance" (P 214) But this ignorance is justified due to the simple fact that the Houyhnhnms have no concept of War. They only see this new stranger as a kind of advanced yahoo and fortifies their stance by saying that he (his master) "understood the nature of yahoo (humans in relation to the yahoos) might easily believe it possible for so vile an animal, to be capable of every action that Gulliver had named."(p.215) This only made the view of the humans even worse then that of the Yahoos in which the Houyhnhnhms interacted with on a daily basis. Over the course of the first of months, Gulliver goes on to explain the other aspects of society such as the system of law and the constitution and his Master takes a great ear to his statements but becomes more and more confused as Gulliver explains his system of justice. He goes on to explain in detail the excellent constitution that England lives under and explains to his Master that the role of the Chief Minister of State is that his main goal in his interactions with others that "he never tells a truth, but with an intent that you should take it for a lye; nor a lye, but with a design that you should take the statement for truth." P 223 He goes on to explain that if a person wants to obtain these titles, he must be skilled in insolence, lying and bribery. In an effort to sure up and again compare Gulliver to the Yahoo's, the Master explains to Gulliver that...

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