Four voyages of Gulliver and Utopia in the last voyage in the land of Houyhnhnms, characteristics of Houyhnhnms, law, rigidity and suspicion in first three voyages

1. Utopia in Gulliver’s travel
 Hema goswami
 Sem 1
 Paper no. 2: The Neo- Classical
Literature
 Submitted to Department of
English MKBU
 Enrollment no. 2069108420180020
 Roll no. 15
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 Year 2017-2019

2. Origin of the word ‘Utopia’
OU-TOPOS EU-TOPOS
NO PLACE OR
NOWHERE
A GOOD
PLACE
GREEK WORD

3. Utopia ?
• Imaginary ideal society (by Thomas more)
• Remote land

4. • Free of:-
1. poverty
2. suffering
3. troubles
4. conflict
5. hunger
6. unhappiness

5. Possesses:-
1. Highly
desirable
2. Nearly
perfect
qualities
for
citizens

6. Opposite
situation

7. • Is Utopia really exist?

8. Irish author and satirist
best known for Gulliver’s travels

9. Four voyages in Gulliver’s travel
LILIPUT
HOUYHNHNMS
LAPUTA

10. BROBDINGNAG

11. LAPUTA

12. HOUYHNHNMS
Non- humanoid
creatures
Ideal way of life
Capable of living
in balanced or just
utopia

13. Utopian island Houyhnhnms
• Grave and rational
horses
• Reasonable
creatures
• Gulliver wants to
stay there

14. • There are no
words in
Houyhnhnms
language for any
bad things like:-
-lying
-power
-greed
-jealousy

15. • Houyhnhnms don’t need law or
special class of lawyers

16. • Friendship and benevolence

17. • Houyhnhnms do not get
sick

18. • Lives with simplicity
• Uncorrupted by passion
• Swift defines
Houyhnhnm as
meaning “perfection of
nature”

19. law Rigidity Suspicion

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