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Gulliver's travels Flashcards

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Who wrote it?

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Jonathan Swift

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What are the leading characteristics of the Brobdingnagians?

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Morally uptight giants who are horrified at European depravities. (Lemuel is forced to escape them)

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What are the leading characteristics of the Yahoos?

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Disfigured humans. They are used as barnyard animals by the Houyhnhnms and represent the very worst of human nature.

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What are the leading characteristics of the Houyhnhnms?

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Peaceful race of horses with high intellect - superior to humans. Lemuel idolizes them.

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What are the leading characteristics of the Lilliputians?

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6 inches high. Attempt to employ Lemuel as a war machine against their enemy Blefuscu.

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What does the term Yahoo mean now?

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“A crude, brutish, or obscenely coarse person” - wikipedia

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What is the Lilliputians’ philosophy?

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“Those not for us are against us”

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