Question

Reread the paragraph excerpt from Gulliver's Travels. How is Gulliver's intolerance of his family actually a form of arrogance (pride)?

Answer 1

Answer:

In Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's adventures and experiences ... Pride and arrogance are reoccurring themes that make up the most of Swift's satire.

Answer 2

Swift has now concluded his illustration on humans' basic nature. Gulliver could not make himself a horse. He is not innocent or rational. He is, by nature, a Yahoo. But, as a European Yahoo, Gulliver should use his driblet of reason to improve himself; instead, he uses his reason to magnify his worst vice: his pride. Gulliver's pride has swelled out of all proportion; he has "reasoned" himself into rejecting his species and his nature: Gulliver is virtually a madman. His attitudes when he arrives in London make him a source of derision, for Gulliver seeks to change his basic nature by thinking; reason becomes the sole guide of his life.