Houyhnhnms

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• Unlike Gulliver, the Houyhnhnms cannot twist fibers to make threads.

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• In Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels,' the Houyhnhnms are depicted as a wise and rational race of horses who govern the Yahoos.

• So what of the Houyhnhnms?

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• The Houyhnhnms' lack of iron is especially significant.

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• Themes of material medium and technique are important once again to part four of Gulliver's Travels, the voyage to the land of the Houyhnhnms.

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• A vein of humor running through part four depends on the reader's efforts to create a visual image of the Houyhnhnms performing everyday manual tasks.

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• It has the same function as Gulliver's deliberately sketchy descriptions of the Houyhnhnms at their hoof-work.

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• Swift's imagination dwells on shelter, transport, and basic furniture, anticipating the very simple handicrafts that he encounters in the land of the Houyhnhnms.

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• The fourth is the very primitive, pre-mechanical manufacturing, wattling, sledge-making, and shelter-building that Gulliver encounters among the Houyhnhnms in part four.

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• The impoverishment of the technical realm that Swift paints so austerely in the land of the Houyhnhnms invites a revision of our reading of the book as a whole.

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