Choose one the world's that Gulliver visits; What social issue(s)/human fault is Swift commenting on through Gulliver's visit to this world? What details from this world bring it out? Is the movie subtle or blatant in how they reveal this? How does the medium of film help to bring out the satire more than just the book could by itself? Did the movie make you think or did you think it was a poor adaptation? Why?
The world in which Gulliver is labeled as a Yahoo brings out the faults of the world in that we don't pride ourselves on how good of a person we are, but how many possessions we have and who looks the best. This is shown when the Yahoos are looking through the rocks for diamonds, and later when Gullivers goes away in the night looking for them, only to realize that he is also a Yahoo, and that humans have many faults that he cannot live with and so he wishes to stay with they whynnies. The movie is pretty much blatant in how it shows this, and I think that the medium used contributes to this. However, I feel that film was a great medium to use to display these things because you can actually see for yourself how the way the Yahoos acted parallels the way humans act. I thought that this was a great adaptation to teach humans to realize that not everything is about who can show off the most great stuff but instead just try to be a great person.
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