Question

compare
and contrast the yahoos and houyhnhnms
highlighting the features

Answer 1

The Yahoos were human-like creatures but markedly disfigured and deformed such that their link with humanity was lost and they seemed to be more akin to animals. Their heads and breasts were covered with thick hair while the rest of their bodies were bare. They did not have tails, often stood on their hind legs and Gulliver had found them immensely detestable on his first encounter with them. Although the Yahoos were human in form and feature, they were indeed more like animals because they were filthy, they were voracious omnivores, a noisy nuisance on top of being restive, mischievous and malicious. They were an especially depraved variety of mankind who seemed to be degenerating further. The ​Houyhnhnms treated the Yahoos in the same manner that human beings treat horses, as a means of conveyance. The Yahoos were tied by the neck with strong withes fastened to a beam and held their food between the claws of their fore feet and tore it with their teeth.. Their food being a wisp of hay and a fetlock full of oats. The Yahoos would be tethered to a sledge like vehicle which were meant to carry around the ​Houyhnhnms from one place to another. ​Gulliver could not bring himself to empathise with the Yahoos, although they seemed human yet woefully underdeveloped in their intellectual abilities. He tried to establish himself as one among the race of Houyhnhnms because of his higher intellectual capabilities but he was eventually considered to be a better version of the Yahoos and sent off from the kingdom as he posed a threat to the peace and order of Houyhnhnms kingdom. Gulliver's intense grief upon being forced to leave the Houyhnhnms shows that it was their kind of society, fair, just and principled which he aspired to belong to. It was a society which was governed by an ethical code of conduct. The happiness and harmony engendered in their social code of living was something Gulliver sought for the actual society of the English he lived in but could not find. 

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