What appears to be an image of intellectual enrichment is quickly replaced with extermination and obvious irrationality of the Houyhnhnm society. The Yahoos are the only problem that Houyhnhnm face due to their “filthy”, “noisome”, “deformed”, “restive and innocuous”. This characteristics are clear opposites of Houyhnhnm cleanness, rationality, and love of knowledge. To stablish a straight line between rational Houyhnhnm and irrational Yahoos, the narrator gives the example of the Yahoos killing cats and destroying the oat and grass to demonstrate that they invading their domestic life as well as destroying their lethal resources to survive. Parallel to this debate, in the era of British expansion and slavery, dominant nations accused their enslaved people for been irrational and debated their role in
What appears to be an image of intellectual enrichment is quickly replaced with extermination and obvious irrationality of the Houyhnhnm society. The Yahoos are the only problem that Houyhnhnm face due to their “filthy”, “noisome”, “deformed”, “restive and innocuous”. This characteristics are clear opposites of Houyhnhnm cleanness, rationality, and love of knowledge. To stablish a straight line between rational Houyhnhnm and irrational Yahoos, the narrator gives the example of the Yahoos killing cats and destroying the oat and grass to demonstrate that they invading their domestic life as well as destroying their lethal resources to survive. Parallel to this debate, in the era of British expansion and slavery, dominant nations accused their enslaved people for been irrational and debated their role in