After his absence for barely nine years, Gulliver came back bringing with him every detail of his adventures. But to his greatest astonishment he could not aligned himself with the style of what men called civilization; and the people who knew him since he left for the seas could not accept him anymore.
In his adventures Gulliver met people in contrasting sizes, diminutive like the size of his fingers, and giants that his size was only their fingers. The giants asked so many questions concerning the management and defense of the state from where Gulliver came. Gulliver the small man among the giants had to say something in favor of his race. He told them England has thousands soldiers standing on guard for any threat. He further said his country is at peace with her neighbors in the region. The giant's queen retorted, "How could you say at peace in the presence of thousand soldiers standing on guard?"
If there are brutes in the world it must be the men in modernization and the Yahoos in the Houyhnms. Animals sustain their living by following the cycle of nature while men in their avarice live by destroying the nature.
In the world of the Houyhnms horses lived in culture and refinement to a high degree. In this country horses can speak and domineering over the other animals particularly the men who had the behavior of the worst savage. The horses called them yahoo. They eat like crocodiles and relieve themselves from excrements like pig. By virtue of his appearance the horses considered him a yahoo. Gulliver exhorted all he can to convince the horses that he was coming from a civilized country and he was not a yahoo. At the end the horses set him to the seas for home once again.
It was home that Gulliver longed so much. He discovered treasures but he threw them away because fortune he did not want for. In the midst of his tribulations he only wanted to wake up one morning with his wife and the things he knew surrounding him. He had all the avenues to go home but thinking on the follies of men he decided not to live with human anymore. He shifted to live in decency among the horses.
But he was back home and his adventures came to the point of risking his name as doctor and the fate of his family in danger. He had to prove he was sober and convince everyone that there are certain people in the other segment of the world who lived in honesty, justice and reverence. But humanity represented by the doctors could not imagine the existence of such a kind of people. For them the world is made up of hypocrites: in the palace as well as in the hovels of the cities.
Men of civilization specially the one in the name of Dr. Bates who saw first the truth of what Gulliver had said and who had the animal desire to Mary, Gulliver's wife are immersed to the corruption of the world. He was blinded and for him evil is a natural thing.
While from far away Gulliver was immersed with culture and refinement of the being he met. He and the doctors could not go hand in hand any more. But the truth came out that he was sober and his faculties in tacked.
There are still good men in the world in rustic and rugged attire but the rogue in a guise of civilization cannot take it.
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