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Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels,' bk. 4, ch. 1. (Jonathan Swift)
From: The Explicator
Date: 19940101
Author:Washington, Gene
Jonathan Swift uses aposematic colors in 'Gulliver's Travels' to warn readers that characters and speakers so marked do not have Swift's perspective, although it may be evident in the text. This double cognition renders other characters oblivious to the dangerous natures of the characters with aposematic coloring. Swift uses similar coloring for the Yahoos, the salamander, prostitutes or women infected with venereal disease and the Struldbrugs.
The Hair of both Sexes |the Yahoos~ was of several Colours, brown, red, black and yellow.
Why did Swift, to use a common eighteenth-century term, ...
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