Country of the Houyhnhnms
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The Country of the Houyhnhnms is a fictional land in Jonathan Swift’s "Gulliver’s Travels" inhabited by rational, intelligent horses who embody cold reason and contrast sharply with the brutish human-like Yahoos.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional country
ⓘ
fictional location ⓘ literary setting ⓘ |
| alsoInhabitedBy | Yahoos ⓘ |
| appearsInChapterRange | Part IV, chapters 1–12 of Gulliver's Travels ⓘ |
| appearsInPart | Part IV of Gulliver's Travels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | Gulliver's Travels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
human depravity
ⓘ
limits of rationality ⓘ reason versus passion ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
European society of Swift's time
ⓘ
lands of the Yahoos ⓘ |
| countryInFictionalUniverse | world of Gulliver's Travels ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | Kingdom of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Jonathan Swift NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| departureCauseOfVisitor | banishment of Gulliver ⓘ |
| dominantSpecies | Houyhnhnms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethicalPrinciple | governance by reason rather than passion ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1726 ⓘ |
| genre |
satire
ⓘ
travel narrative ⓘ utopian and dystopian fiction ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Houyhnhnm assemblies
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Houyhnhnm reason ⓘ |
| hasFormOfGovernment | rational oligarchy of Houyhnhnms ⓘ |
| hasPopulationType |
brutish human-like creatures
ⓘ
rational horses ⓘ |
| influenced | later depictions of rational non-human societies in literature ⓘ |
| inhabitedBy | Houyhnhnms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageUsedByInhabitants | Houyhnhnm language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryFunction |
critique of Enlightenment rationality
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satire of human nature ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalWorldRegion | remote unknown oceanic region ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| nameLanguageOrigin | invented language by Jonathan Swift ⓘ |
| narratedByCharacter | Lemuel Gulliver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableInhabitantClass |
Houyhnhnm masters
ⓘ
Yahoo servants ⓘ |
| socialOrganization | communal and orderly society ⓘ |
| subordinateSpecies | Yahoos ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
cold reason
ⓘ
rationalism ⓘ |
| visitedBy | Lemuel Gulliver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLanguage | English ⓘ |
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