@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00028097, author = {服部, 典之 and Hattori, Noriyuki}, journal = {IVY}, month = {Mar}, note = {Following Gulliver's footsteps from Lilliput to the land of the Houyhnhnms allows us witness his fall from possessing a gigantic and fabulous body to becoming an ignominious beast. When it is realized that the yahoo he encounters and detests in the Houyhnynms is none other than a human being, Gulliver's deep self-abhorrence becomes intense. Gulliver adapts himself too much to the littleness of Lilliput and to the bigness of Brobdingnag consecutively, and despises humanity. Once, when he tries in vain to identify with a giant, he averts his eyes from looking at a mirror image of himself. In the last voyage to Houyhnhnms, he develops an idealistic notion of being a horse and rejects his self-recognition of 'being a human'=his 'yahooness'. Previous researchers have argued that the nature of the Houyhnhnms is serene but without heart, an idea to which I oppose myself. Gulliver's master is unwilling to apprise him of the decision of the General Assembly of the Houyhnhnms to expel him, because he has a warmness and a friendly feeling towards him. The kindness he shows to Gulliver at his parting from the Houynhnhnms is shared by the best friend of Gulliver's Sorrel Nag, who cries out (probably with tears) 'Take Care of thy self, gentle Yahoo!' The best lesson he learns from the horses is 'humane kindness', or the consideration and compassion which they show to him. After he gets home, his melancholy is deepened because he is surrounded by the yahoos he detests. But this should not lead to this conclusion: Gulliver in his last phase suffers irrecoverable despair. Some notice should be taken of the fact that he 'behold[s] [his] figure often in a glass, and thus if possible habituates [him]self by time to tolerate the sight of a human creature,' and thus tries to be on tolerable terms with human beings. This is symbolically supported by an incident in which Gulliver starts to look at himself in the mirror again. Thus we may note that there is a glimmering of hope in Lemuel Gulliver at the very end of the work., 本論は2009年度名古屋大学英文学会サマーセミナー(2009年7月17日)における講演に基づくものである。}, pages = {67--90}, title = {レミュエル・ガリヴァーの悲惨と希望}, volume = {42}, year = {2010} }