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comment on the character of yahoo as observed by Gulliver in Novel.

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Answered by Manav123456789
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Yahoos are legendary beings in the novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift, whose behavior and character representation is meant to comment on the state of Europe from Swift's point of view...

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Swift describes them as being filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms, greatly preferable. The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with "pretty stones" they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism and ignorant elitism Swift encountered in Britain. Hence the term "yahoo" has come to mean "a crude, brutish or obscenely coarse person....


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