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| | Fauske, 2003 |
 | | An ironic foil to throw into relief the benefits of ‘civilisation’, Peter borrows elements of the Yahoo and the Houyhnhm. |
 | | He acquires a primitive, figurative language which penetrates social facades: he calls a young lady a 'peacock', 'old women magpyes and owls', 'a beau with a toupee a monkey', 'blue, red and green ribbons [colours of the Orders of Merit] he calls Rainbows, an Heap of Gold, a Turd'. |
 | | Just like the Houyhnhms first encountering a clothed Gulliver, he at first believes clothes to be 'the natural skins of the creatures that wore them'. |
| www.unh.edu /english/swift/2003/gerrard.htm (2169 words) |
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