Houyhnhnms are a fictional race of intelligent horses described in the last part of Jonathan Swift's satirical 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels. The name...
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Houyhnhnms and Yahoos as a master/slave dynamic. Gulliver becomes a member of a horse's household and comes to both admire and emulate the Houyhnhnms...
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In the book, Gulliver is so impressed with the Utopian country of the Houyhnhnms that when he returns to England he eventually chooses to live out his...
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(or, less frequently, year 593 Ab urbe condita) and the Third Year of Houyhnhnm. The denomination 161 BC for this year it has been used since the early...
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Gulliver. He finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms, greatly preferable. The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with...
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Lilliput and Blefuscu Lindalino Luggnagg Other characters The Engine Houyhnhnm Struldbrugg Yahoo Films Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and...
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Language suggested that hoon (meaning "a fool") was a contraction of Houyhnhnm, a fictional race of intelligent horses which appears in Gulliver's Travels...
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exhibited a series of pictures illustrating "Gulliver's visit to the Houyhnhnms", one of which was engraved in mezzotint by Valentine Green; in 1770 a...
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moons, which his Laputan astronomers had discovered. Island gigantism Houyhnhnm Lilliput and Blefuscu Struldbrug Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels) Grildrig has...
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the countries Lemuel Gulliver visits, Brobdingnag and Country of the Houyhnhnms approach a utopia; the others have significant dystopian aspects. In ecotopian...
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