Critical Summary of “The Thing Which Was Not”

Title: Critical Summary of “The Thing Which Was Not”
Category: Literature / English | Words: 773 | Pages: 3.3 (approximately 235 words/page)

Critical Summary of “The Thing Which Was Not”

According to Robert Philmus, in Gulliver’s Travels, Swifts authorial voice is rarely detectable and instead provides the reader with Gulliver to narrate. This enables Swift to show the reader Gulliver’s ironic view of humans after his encounter with the Houyhnhnms’. Gulliver acts as a gullible character quickly conforming to other’s beliefs. Robert Philmus points out many problems behind Gulliver’s quickly changed views towards humans and truth after his stay in Houyhnhnmland. …showed first 75 words of 773 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 773 total…all his arguments make sense, they need to be read closely to understand what he is saying. His writing style is difficult to follow and requires some outside information to understand his points. Philmus’ article provides a good analysis of Gulliver and how susceptible he became to the Houyhnhnms. He points out numerous flaws in their reasoning which make the reader wonder how Gulliver could ever turn his back on human society to follow them.

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