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Examples Of Slavery In The Enlightenment

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In addition to the equality of slaves, another main theme throughout Swift 's novel is the idea of equality for all persons. During The Enlightenment, there were social, economic, sexual and many other inequalities among different types of people. Swift incorporates this thought when Gulliver is in the land of the Houyhnhnms. In this land, there are Houyhnhnms, who are in essence a group of intelligent horses. Also, there are Yahoos who are a strange animals that are comparable to a human. The Houyhnhms are much more superior and intellectually advanced than the Yahoos. Although it seems ironical that horses are superior to a human-like being, this is a way of showing how, for example, some thought that men were superior to women.
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