Character sketch of the Yahoo's of Gulliver's travels
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Yahoos are the human-like creatures that Gulliver first encounters in the Country of the Houyhnhnms. Not recognizing their link with humanity, Gulliver describes the Yahoos as animals: " . . . deformed . . . . Their heads and breasts were covered with thick hair . . . but the rest of their bodies were bare . . . . They had no tails and often stood on their hind feet . . . ." He concludes with, "I never beheld in all my travels so disagreeable an animal."
Although they are human in form and feature, the Yahoos are, indeed, animals. They are filthy and they stink. They are omnivorous but seem to prefer meat and garbage. (Significantly, they eat nearly everything prohibited by the biblical and Levitical food codes.) They are "the most filthy, noisome, and deformed animals which nature ever produced . . . " and they are "restive and indocible, mischievous and malicious."
Yahoo's society is a Dystopia. Dystopia refers to the totalitarian society where everything is unpleasant and degraded. Yahoos “were known to hate one another more than they did any different species of animals”, representing greed, hatred, filth and selfishness like humans. Representing nature of humans, if sufficient food were given to five Yahoos as which would be sufficient for fifty, each one would fall impatiently to have all of it themselves instead eating with tranquility and peace.