SHORT INTRODUCTION ABOUT BACKGROUND OF THE NOVEL Gulliver's travels an adventure story(in reality a misadventure story). It involves several voyages of LEMUEL GULLIVER, a ship's surgeon. There are total four voyages that is a voyage to LILIPUT, BROBDINGNAG and HOUYHNHNMS. Gulliver after each adventure is somehow able to return to his home in England, where he recovers from those unusual experiences and then sets out again on a new voyage. ELEMENTS OF COLONIALISM IN THIRD AND FOURTH VOYAGES In the third voyage there is an element of colonialism. In this voyage Gulliver finds a floating island that is Laputa. Gulliver meets several inhabitants including the king. All are pre-occupied with things associated with mathematics and music. The king of Laputa island is ruling over Balnibarbi, which is an island below it. How can one rule over other place which is far away, without knowing the cause and sufferings of people. This is what colonialism shows that is full control over another country, occupying it with settlers and exploiting it economically. In the last voyage of Houyhnhnms elements of colonialism is developed to an extent. The Houyhnhnms are ruling over Yahoos. The civilized rules over uncivilized. Houyhnhnms the horses portrays Yahoos as uncivilized. They interpreted with their own thinking without getting other voice from Yahoos. So Houyhnhnms are colonizer, they make their own rule. Anything which is evil is Yahoo for them. There is an unequal relationship between the colonial power and the colony that is Yahoos and Houyhnhnms. Houyhnhnms are powerful and they are ruling over weaker Yahoos. Yahoos are considered as bad creature who engage in violence, fights with each other, lacks moral values. But Houyhnhnms are superior in there own world, they have all good qualities and the word 'bad' is only used for Yahoos. In this way these two voyages shows different elements of colonialism.
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