C- reversal is used to show clover, representing the people, has changed ideals
Answer:
C. The use of science fiction allows Swift to develop a theme related
to the idea of animals developing human societies.
Explanation:
Science fiction is a type of fiction that tells stories about imagined futuristic or technological advancements that create huge changes in the social and environmental structure.
Jonathan Swift uses science fiction to show how animals develop human societies. <em>Gulliver's Travels </em> are in four parts and in each part, the protagonist Lemuel Gulliver finds himself with strange animals and creatures.
In the first part, he is shipwrecked on the land of extremely small people called Lilliput. In the second part, he finds himself at Brobdingnag where giants reside. In the third part, he is in the flying island of Laputa where the people have one eye pointing inwards and the other pointing outward. Gulliver also visits Glubbdubdrib, the island of sorcerers and from there he speaks with great men from the past who were no more such as Julius Caesar.
In the fourth and final part, he visits Houyhnhnms where a race of intelligent horses live and <u>ironically they have manged to tame the evil and greedy human race of Yahoos which shows an irony in the relationship between humans and animals.</u>
Remark
Let's begin with the theme. What is the theme of this passage, exactly? Four people -- five if you include Dr. Heidegger -- are sitting around a circle bemoaning the fact that they have lost something not granted to anyone. They have lost their second youth. They have swallowed some water which gave them their youth only for a fleeting moment (it seems to them), and they mourn the passage of time that grants them no more youth that they had been living in for some short period.
The four felt that way. Only Dr. Heidegger seemed to have learned something that told him that he should be careful what he wished for: he might actually get it.
We have two themes then. We have 4 who wished for their youth back and we have one who didn't want any part of it. I think we have to cover both.
The best detail for those wanting it is the old woman who apparently got her youth back and she was incredibly beautiful. Now her hands are skinny and likely wrinkled. She puts those hands to her face and wishes herself to be dead because she despises the fact that she is old (and likely all her friends are dead and she is condemned to a life of weariness. I speculate, but is certainly unhappy about the aging process). She mourns that it is over so quickly. They all do. That's sentence 3.
Only Dr. Heidegger seems to understand that they got something they should never have received in the first place. The yellow sentence beginning with "Well I bemoan it not, ... " reflects his point view as well as anything. That's sentence 5.