A critical comment on Gulliver’s travels (part iv)
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Gulliver's fourth voyage involves being shipwrecked on a land inhabited by two groups - the Houyhnhms, who are rational, horse-like creatures, and the Yahoos, hairy humanoids used as slaves. Gulliver comes to admire the Houyhnhms for their reason-based society and sees humans as no better than the Yahoos, becoming unable to tell the difference between humans and Yahoos. Though he tries to imitate the Houyhnhms, he is eventually exiled for being too much like a Yahoo. Returning home, Gulliver expresses deep hatred for humanity.
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- By the end of his journey, Gulliver has come to despise humans as much as the Yahoos, seeing humanity's flaws, and cannot bear to be around people when he returns to England.
Satire
Swift's satirical essay "A Modest Proposal" ridicules the deplorable conditions in Ireland through an outlandish proposal: that the poor should sell their children as food to the rich. Through irony and emotive language, Swift highlights the indifference of the wealthy classes to the suffering poor, as well as England's exploitative treatment of Ireland. While targeting these social ills, the satire also attacks deeper issues in human nature, suggesting people only care about money. Ultimately, Swift argues for alternatives like reforming landlords, trade, and social attitudes rather than his fictitious proposal.
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Satire2
Swift's satirical essay "A Modest Proposal" ridicules the inaction of those in power to remedy the poverty and suffering of Ireland's poor. It suggests selling poor children as food to the rich as a solution, though the proposal is absurd and meant to criticize the exploitation and inhumanity faced by the Irish. The essay attacks the social and economic conditions that created poverty, as well as greed, indifference, and lack of mercy among the wealthy and ruling classes towards the poor. While outrageous on the surface, the satire aims to provoke thought and reform through highlighting uncomfortable truths about Irish suffering and its causes.
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This passage summarizes a chapter from the autobiography of Frederick Douglass describing his efforts to teach himself to read and write as a slave in Maryland in the 1830s-40s. Douglass lived with his master Hugh and mistress Sophia for about 7 years. His mistress initially taught him the alphabet but was discouraged from continuing by her husband. Douglass then cleverly taught himself to read using various strategies like befriending white children to get reading lessons in exchange for food. He was determined to educate himself despite the risks, as literacy was seen as threatening to the slave system.
Journal Assignment 2Journal AssignmentFredrick Douglas’ The.docx
Frederick Douglass delivered a speech on July 5th, 1852 titled "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" in which he sharply criticized American hypocrisy regarding slavery on Independence Day. Douglass notes that while white Americans celebrated freedom and liberty, African Americans still lived in slavery. He contrasts the meaning of the Fourth of July for whites ("freedom") versus slaves ("more chains"). Douglass condemned the nation for betraying its principles of liberty while millions of blacks remained enslaved, calling the celebrations a "sham" and "mockery" for slaves.
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You should be finishing up the book this week and gathering your thoughts for your proposal submission. Please respond to these questions as you reflect on what you have read thus far, as well as reply to two classmates by the due date.
1. How do you decide whether to raise a difficult issue?
2. If you decide not to raise something but stay in the relationship, how do you cope with your thoughts and feelings so that they don't fester? How do you actually let go?
3. Can you think of a time in the past when you've successfully let go of an issue in a relationship?
4. Can you think of a time when you've tried to do this, and it hasn't worked? Why didn't it work?
As most classmates are working professionals, please have your answer posted by 10 a.m. on Sunday to give your classmates 24 hours to respond to your post.
YEARS
PROJECT M :USE 11
The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois, Shawn Leigh Alexander
Published by University of Massachusetts Press
Bois, W.E.B. Du and Shawn Leigh Alexander.
The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches.
University of Massachusetts Press, 2018.
Project MUSE. muse.jhu.edu/book/59563.
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I
OF OUR SPIRITUAL STRIVINGS
O water, voice of my heart, crying in the sand,
All night long crying with a mournful cry,
As I lie and listen, and cannot understand
The voice of my heart in my side or the voice of the sea,
O water, crying for rest, is it I, is it I?
All night long the water is crying to me.
Unresting water, there shall never be rest
Till the last moon droop and the last tide fail,
And the fre of the end begin to burn in the west;
And the heart shall be weary and wonder and cry like the
sea,
All life long crying without avail,
As the water all night long is crying to me.
ARTHUR SYMONS.
BETWEEN me and the other world there is ever
an unasked question: unasked by some through
feelings of delicacy; by others through the dif-
fculty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, futter
round it. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way,
eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead
of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they
2 THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK
say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I
fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern out-
rages make your blood boil? At these I smile, or am inter-
ested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion
may require. To the real question, How does it feel to be
a problem? I answer seldom a word.
And yet, being a problem is a strange experience, —
peculiar even for one who has never been anything else,
save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe. It is in the early
days of rollicking boyhood that the revelation frst.
Ch. VII in Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassCHAPTE.docx
Ch. VII in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
CHAPTER VII
I lived in Master Hugh's family about seven years. During this time, I succeeded in learning to read and write. In accomplishing this, I was compelled to resort to various stratagems. I had no regular teacher. My mistress, who had kindly commenced to instruct me, had, in compliance with the advice and direction of her husband, not only ceased to instruct, but had set her face against my being instructed by any one else. It is due, however, to my mistress to say of her, that she did not adopt this course of treatment immediately. She at first lacked the depravity indispensable to shutting me up in mental darkness. It was at least necessary for her to have some training in the exercise of irresponsible power, to make her equal to the task of treating me as though I were a brute.
My mistress was, as I have said, a kind and tender-hearted woman; and in the simplicity of her soul she commenced, when I first went to live with her, to treat me as she supposed one human being ought to treat another. In entering upon the duties of a slaveholder, she did not seem to perceive that I sustained to her the relation of a mere chattel, and that for her to treat me as a human being was not only wrong, but dangerously so. Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tender-hearted woman. There was no sorrow or suffering for which she had not a tear. She had bread for the hungry, clothes for the naked, and comfort for every mourner that came within her reach. Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these heavenly qualities. Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness. The first step in her downward course was in her ceasing to instruct me. She now commenced to practise her husband's precepts. She finally became even more violent in her opposition than her husband himself. She was not satisfied with simply doing as well as he had commanded; she seemed anxious to do better. Nothing seemed to make her more angry than to see me with a newspaper. She seemed to think that here lay the danger. I have had her rush at me with a face made all up of fury, and snatch from me a newspaper, in a manner that fully revealed her apprehension. She was an apt woman; and a little experience soon demonstrated, to her satisfaction, that education and slavery were incompatible with each other.
From this time I was most narrowly watched. If I was in a separate room any considerable length of time, I was sure to be suspected of having a book, and was at once called to give an account of myself. All this, however, was too late. The first step had been taken. Mistress, in teaching me the alphabet, had given me the inch, and no precaution could prevent me from taking the ell.
The plan which I adopted, and the one by which I was most successful, was that of making friends of all the ...
Digital HistoryPrintable VersionThe Meaning of July Fo
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The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro
Digital History ID 3612
Author: Frederick Douglass
Date:1852
Annotation: On July 5, 1852, Douglass gave a speech at an event commemorating the signing of the
Declaration of Independence, held at Rochester's Corinthian Hall. It was a piercing speech. During the first part
of his speech he praises what the founding fathers did for this country, but his speech soon develops into a
condemnation of the attitude of American society toward slavery.
Document: Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the
Declaration of Independence were brave men. They were great men, too ‹ great enough to give frame to a
great age. It does not often happen to a nation to raise, at one time, such a number of truly great men. The
point from which I am compelled to view them is not, certainly, the most favorable; and yet I cannot
contemplate their great deeds with less than admiration. They were statesmen, patriots and heroes, and for the
good they did, and the principles they contended for, I will unite with you to honor their memory....
...Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or
those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of
natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, therefore, called upon
to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for
the blessings resulting from your independence to us?
Would to God, both for your sakes and ours, that an affirmative answer could be truthfully returned to these
questions! Then would my task be light, and my burden easy and delightful. For who is there so cold, that a
nation's sympathy could not warm him? Who so obdurate and dead to the claims of gratitude, that would not
thankfully acknowledge such priceless benefits? Who so stolid and selfish, that would not give his voice to swell
the hallelujahs of a nation's jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs? I am not that
man. In a case like that, the dumb might eloquently speak, and the "lame man leap as an hart."
But such is not the state of the case. I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included
within the pale of glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance
between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common.‹The rich inheritance of
justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The
sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours,
not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty,
and call upon him to join you in ...
Gulliver's travels part 4 team
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is considered one of the most important works of English literature. The document provides background on Swift and discusses some of the major themes and events in Gulliver's Travels, including Gulliver encountering the Yahoo and Houyhnhnm societies and developing a growing disgust for humanity. It also summarizes some of the key events in Part 4, such as Gulliver being asked to leave Houyhnhnmland and returning home, where he sees people as Yahoos.
Gulliver's Travels
This document provides background information on Jonathan Swift and his satirical novel Gulliver's Travels, published anonymously in 1726. It describes the four voyages of the protagonist Lemuel Gulliver, including visits to the lands of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the Houyhnhnms, who represent disciplined society in contrast to humans, called Yahoos. The excerpt to be analyzed is from the fourth voyage, in which Gulliver describes human society and flaws to the Houyhnhnms.
Prophet of Islam Biography by Maududi
This document provides background information on Arabia before the rise of Islam and the birth of Muhammad. It describes Arabia as a place of darkness, ignorance, tribal warfare, and rampant idolatry and immorality. Against this backdrop, it introduces Muhammad, who was born orphaned in Mecca and grew up among the Arabs, but stood out from a young age for his kindness, integrity, and monotheistic beliefs, rejecting the idolatry of his people. The document sets the stage for Muhammad to bring a revolution through his message from God.
The Evils of Slavery, and the Cure of Slavery
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Douglass gives a speech criticizing the hypocrisy of America celebrating Independence Day while millions of slaves remain in chains. He argues slavery is wrong and a sin, and uses fiery rhetoric like ridicule, sarcasm, and rebuke to condemn the nation and call it to action. Douglass aims to expose the country's crimes and hypocrisy regarding its treatment of slaves.
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Gulliver's travels is divided into four parts, with the final part taking place in the Land of Houyhnhnms. In this land, Houyhnhnms who are rational horses rule over Yahoos, who are humans seen as savage beasts. Gulliver learns the language of the Houyhnhnms and tells them about humans ruling over horses in his country, which they do not believe. The Houyhnhnms see greed, selfishness, and lack of community in human nature, challenging the idea that humans are truly rational.
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A critical comment on Gulliver’s travels (part iv)
- 1. A Critical comment on Gulliver’s Travels (part iv) Gulliver's last voyage, Part IV, is called "A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhms" (pronounced whin-hims). Part IV examines less what humanity creates, such as science or gunpowder or government, and more what humanity is. Appropriately, Gulliver is left on an alien shore by a mutiny, a betrayal and abandonment that set in motion the wheels of Gulliver's detachment from his own people. He encounters two types of inhabitants: the rational Houyhnhms and the vicious, crude Yahoos. The Houyhnhms are talking horses who have established a society based on reason rather than emotion, while the Yahoos are hairy humanoids who are used by the Houyhnhms as slaves. As usual, Gulliver learns the language and converses with the inhabitants about society, government, history, and philosophy. The Houyhnhms do not know deceit, lying, or other vices, and are governed by reason. Neither, however, do they know fairness or love: certain color Houyhnhms are restricted to a servant class and the race as a whole has no great attachment for spouses or children. Gulliver comes to admire the Houyhnhms and loathe the Yahoos, who really are quite disgusting and violent. Soon Gulliver is unable to appreciate the difference between humans and Yahoos. When I thought of my Family, my Friends, my Countrymen, or human Race in general, I considered them as they really were, Yahoos in shape and Disposition, perhaps a little bit more civilized, and qualified with the Gift of Speech; but making no other Use of Reason, than to improve and multiply those Vices, whereof their Brethren in this Country had only the Share that Nature allotted them. When I happened to behold the Reflection of my own Form in a Lake or Fountain, I turned away my Face in Horror and detestation of my self; and could better endure the Sight of a common Yahoo, than of my own Person. By conversing with the Houyhnhms, and looking upon them with Delight, I fell to imitate their Gait and Gesture, which is now grown into a Habit; and my Friends often tell me in a blunt Way, that I "trot like a Horse"; which, however, I take for a great Compliment: Neither shall I disown, that in speaking I am apt to fall into the Voice and manner of the Houyhnhms, and hear my self ridiculed on that account without the least Mortification.
- 2. The Houyhnhms also have difficulty distinguishing Gulliver from the Yahoos, however. In spite of his best efforts to learn to be like the Houyhnhms, they eventually find Gulliver too much like a Yahoo and sentence him to exile. Devastated, Gulliver builds a boat and sets sail. Long after his rescue by a Portuguese ship and return home, Gulliver consistently expresses his deep hatred for humanity, whom he calls Yahoos. Part IV concludes with Gulliver very slowly learning to accept his wife, his family, and other humans again, but still full of self- hatred and misanthropy.