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All the World Masterpieces (41)
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1、 Gulliver's Travels, Volume 3: Deep Critique of the Flying Isles: The Flying Isles' suppression of the territories below (using "shadows to block the sun" or throwing boulders) alludes to Britain's colonial oppression of Ireland (Swift himself was a supporter of the Irish independence movement). Scientists' pathological obsession with music implies the Enlightenment's blind worship of reason.
2、 Absurd detail: The residents of Feidao need their servants to use airbags to tap their ears to "awaken attention" due to excessive thinking, implying that reason would become insane if it were detached from humanity.
3、 The fourth volume of the Houyhnhnms (Houyhnhnms and Yehu) interrogates the essence of human nature and utopian fantasies. Core metaphor: The binary opposition between the Houyhnhnms (rational horse race) and Yahoos (savage humanoid creatures) reveals Swift's pessimism about human nature.
4、 The pure rational society of the Houyhnhnms (without lies, war, desire) is actually dystopian due to its lack of emotion and creativity; Yehu's animalistic nature symbolizes human greed, violence, and decadence.
5、 Deep criticism: Swift uses Gulliver's worship and imitation of the Houyhnhnms (such as learning how to bark horses) to satirize the Enlightenment thinkers' superstition of "rational supremacy", while exposing the dilemma of humanity's inability to escape from Yahoos' nature. The ending of the Houyhnhnms' expulsion of Gulliver implies the rejection of human complexity by the 'perfect society'.
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