Monday, May 27, 2013
Perfection
I thought it was pretty cool when Gulliver said that he wanted to stay with the Houyhnhnm society and not go back home. It shows just how perfect and innocent the race of horses are. Swift probably made Gulliver say this to show how perfection lures everyone and everything to it and drives them to be perfect. And since Gulliver wants to stay and "be perfect," he is exposing his flaw of striving for perfection, since the reader should know that no human is perfect. This makes it impossible for Gulliver to stay, which gives Swift a reason to make him reach his home in the end.
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I strongly agree with you that Gulliver wanted nothing more than to stay among the "perfect" society. He saw the true magnitude of the greed and corruption that lied within the society back in England and lost any reason to return home. That is why he finds his own island where he can reside alone away from the imperfections of mankind.
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