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The Last Stage of Gulliver’s Travels: The Role of Animal Figures in the Protagonist’s Identity Crisis | ||
| Journal of Literature Across Borders | ||
| مقالات آماده انتشار، پذیرفته شده، انتشار آنلاین از تاریخ 26 فروردین 1405 | ||
| نوع مقاله: Original Article | ||
| شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22080/jlab.2026.31147.1007 | ||
| نویسندگان | ||
| Zahra Goharnezhad1؛ Laleh Atashi* 2 | ||
| 1Iran, Shiraz, Eram campus, Faculty of literature and Humanities, Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages | ||
| 2Shiraz University Iran, Shiraz, Eram Campus, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages | ||
| تاریخ دریافت: 09 بهمن 1404، تاریخ بازنگری: 23 اسفند 1404، تاریخ پذیرش: 26 فروردین 1405 | ||
| چکیده | ||
| In the context of 18th century booming English nationalism and colonial power, Swift’s satire unravels the dark side of anthropocentrism that heavily relies on rationalism and utilitarian ideology. In fact, Swift uses the Juvenalian style of satire that expresses indignation at the wrongs of society-- to frown at the follies and the moral degeneracy of man in a cross-species rather than a cross-racial view in Gulliver’s last voyage to Houyhnhnms’ land. Swift adopts “zoomorphic” tropes to expose the reductive definitions of human-ness in his age inspired by such ideas as the Ladder of Species. Swifts uses irony throughout the novel to undermine the role of reason (logos) and language as concepts much adored and relied upon by his contemporaries to tell humans and non-humans apart. In this paper, the last stage of Gulliver’s Travels is examined to figure out how Swift undermines Enlightenment notions of reason, language, human superiority and master-slave binaries, and how this destabilization leads to Gulliver’s identity crisis. According to the findings of this research, it is the protagonist's inability to adopt a more porous and inclusive worldview which leads to his identity crisis. Although Gulliver notices the shortcomings of his society through comparing it with the world of speaking animals, he still seeks Enlightenment ideals and fails to think beyond the ideology he has internalised. | ||
| کلیدواژهها | ||
| language؛ logocentrism؛ non-human؛ otherness؛ rationalism؛ satire؛ utilitarianism | ||
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