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In Jonathan Swift’s satirical 18th century masterpiece, “Gulliver’s Travels,” his sea-faring protagonist visits various fictional lands, whose inhabitants represent facets of human nature that range from the merely irksome to the grimly repulsive. In the final chapter, we meet the noble race of Houyhnhnms — clean, attractive, kind, intelligent horses who are capable of conversing with Gulliver.
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The Houyhnhnms do not represent humans as they are, but as Swift wishes they were. They shine in contrast with the land’s other inhabitants — filthy, human-like Yahoos (the origin of the familiar trope), a symbol of Swift’s disgust for mankind’s most irrational and aggressive traits.
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