Ps. Meghan Johnston
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Swift
Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" somewhat disturbed me in role reversal of the horses and "yahoos". Such as the part where the horses are the intellectual ones. " I was amazed to see such actions and behavior in brute beasts, and concluded with myself that if the inhabitants of this country were endued with a proportional degree of reason, they must needs be the wisest people upon earth." It made me think that sometimes we don't always see other people as equals just because they are a little bit different or grew up in a different type of society than what we are use to. We may think of ourselves as superior or more intellectual due to our background and what we are used to.
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I think that may have been the point of that particular part of the book. What if we stop looking at a person one way just because they are different than the way we think they should be? If we took the time to put them in the same position we are the world would be different. What if our role was reversed with them? What if we grew up in a society where they way they acted was right and the way we acted was wrong? This is just a couple of things to ponder throughout the night.
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