ellauri070.html on line 433: Star Trek is an American media franchise originating from the 1960s science fiction television series Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry. That series, now often known as "The Original Series", debuted on September 8, 1966, and aired for three seasons on NBC. It followed the voyages of the starship USS Enterprise, a space exploration vessel built by the United Federation of Planets in the 23rd century, on a mission "to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before". In creating Star Trek, Roddenberry was inspired by C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series of novels, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, and television westerns such as Wagon Train. Hornblowerit oli Anna-Kaisa Oraviston mielilukemistoa. Pia Pipsukka piti Heinz Konsalikista.
ellauri110.html on line 122: Gulliver's visit to the Land of the Houyhnhnms is described in Part IV of his Travels, and its location illustrated on the map at the start of Part IV.
ellauri110.html on line 124: Gulliver describes the land as "divided by long rows of trees, not regularly planted but naturally growing", with a "great plenty of grass, and several fields of oats".
ellauri110.html on line 126: The Houyhnhnms are rational equine beings and are masters of the land, contrasting strongly with the Yahoos, savage humanoid creatures who are no better than beasts of burden, or livestock. Whereas the Yahoos represent all that is bad about humans, Houyhnhnms have a settled, calm, reliable and rational society. Gulliver much prefers the Houyhnhnms' company to the Yahoos', even though the latter are biologically closer to him.
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ellauri110.html on line 135: It is possible to interpret the Houyhnhnms in a number of different ways. One interpretation could be a sign of Swift's liberal views on race, or one could regard Gulliver's preference (and his immediate division of Houyhnhnms into color-based hierarchies) as absurd and the sign of his self-deception. It is now generally accepted that the story involving the Houyhnhnms embody a wholly pessimistic view of the place of man and the meaning of his existence in the universe. In a modern context the story might be seen as presenting an early example of animal rights concerns, especially in Gulliver's account of how horses are cruelly treated in his society and the reversal of roles. The story is a possible inspiration for Pierre Boulle's novel Planet of the Apes.
ellauri110.html on line 137: Book IV of Gulliver's Travels is the keystone, in some ways, of the entire work,[citation needed] and critics have traditionally answered the question whether Gulliver is insane (and thus just another victim of Swift's satire) by questioning whether or not the Houyhnhnms are truly admirable. Gulliver loves the land and is obedient to a race that is not like his own. The Houyhnhnm society is based upon reason, and only upon reason, and therefore the horses practice eugenics based on their analyses of benefit and cost. They have no religion and their sole morality is the defence of reason, and so they are not particularly moved by pity or a belief in the intrinsic value of life. Gulliver himself, in their company, builds the sails of his skiff from "Yahoo skins".
ellauri110.html on line 139: The Houyhnhnms' lack of passion surfaces during the scheduled visit of "a friend and his family" to the home of Gulliver's master "upon some affair of importance". On the day of the visit, the mistress of his friend and her children arrive very late. She made no excuses "first for her husband" who had died just that morning and she had to remain to make the proper arrangements for a "convenient place where his body should be laid". Gulliver remarked that "she behaved herself at our house as cheerfully as the rest".
ellauri110.html on line 145: On one hand, the Houyhnhnms have an orderly and peaceful society. They have philosophy and a language that is entirely free of political and ethical nonsense. They have no word for a lie (and must substitute a circumlocution: "to say a thing which is not"). They also have a form of art that is derived from nature. Outside Gulliver's Travels, Swift had expressed longstanding concern over the corruption of the English language, and he had proposed language reform. He had also, in Battle of the Books and in general in A Tale of a Tub, expressed a preference for the Ancients (Classical authors) because their art was based directly upon nature, and not upon other art.
ellauri110.html on line 147: On the other hand, Swift was profoundly mistrustful of attempts at reason that resulted in either hubris (for example, the Projectors satirised in A Tale of a Tub or in Book III of Gulliver's Travels) or immorality (such as the speaker of A Modest Proposal, who offers an entirely logical and wholly immoral proposal for cannibalism). The Houyhnhnms embody both the good and the bad side of reason, for they have the pure language Swift wished for and the amorally rational approach to solving the problems of humanity (Yahoos); the extirpation of the Yahoo population by the horses is very like the speaker of A Modest Proposal.
ellauri110.html on line 152: In the shipping lanes he is rescued by a Portuguese sea captain, a level-headed individual albeit full of concern for others, whose temperament at one level appears intermediate between the calm, rational Houyhnhnms of Houyhnhnmland and the norm of corrupt, European humanity, which Gulliver no longer distinguishes from Houyhnhnmland's wild Yahoos. Gulliver can speak with him, and though now disaffected from all humanity, he began to tolerate his company. Gulliver is returned to his home and family, finds their smell and look intolerable and all his countrymen no better than "Yahoos", purchases and converses with two stabled horses, tolerates the stable boy, and assures the reader of his account's utter veracity.
ellauri133.html on line 591: Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travels, Moby Dick (although a children’s truncated version).
ellauri247.html on line 398: Jonathan Swift (30. marraskuuta 1667 – 19. lokakuuta 1745) oli angloirlantilainen valistusajan kirjailija ja runoilija sekä anglikaanipappi. Hänet muistetaan kaikista parhaiten satiirisista allegorioistaan Gulliverin retket (1726) ja Tynnyritarina (1704). Swift tunnetaan lähinnä laajasta, noin 150 teosta käsittävästä proosatuotannostaan, mutta hän ehti myös kirjoittaa noin 280 runoa. Swift julkaisi useat teoksensa anonyyminä tai salanimen takaa. Hänen käyttämänsä teräväkielinen satiiri paheksutti monia aikalaisia, mutta myös myöhemminkin. Swift on leimattu katkeraksi ihmisvihaajaksi, joka ei nähnyt ihmiskunnassa mitään hyvää. Puolustajat taas ovat huomauttaneet, että maailma näyttää paremmalta kuin se on, kun ei näe sen todellista kehnoutta.
xxx/ellauri173.html on line 400: Mutta minun on myönnettävä, että kauneuden siteet ovat vahvoja ja synkkiä. En ollut tietoinen heidän luontaisesta voimastaan, kun kimeerani huijaamana uskalsin työntyä kupupää edellä tähän intohimoon. Olin jo tullut hiänen lihaan pipu edellä tyyliin Sarrja! Sarrja! Laukaus! Laukaus! kuin Phil Roth maxapalaan, kun ikuisesti pettyneenä halusin ravistaa sen kuivaxi, mutta heräsin, vähän kuin Gulliver Lilliputissa, kassit monta miljoonaa siimahäntää keventyneinä.
xxx/ellauri234.html on line 258: Te olette petollisia, hyvät herrat, puhuessanne maanpuolustuksen yhteydessä edesvastuuttomasta kiihoituksesta sotavarustelujen ja sodan hyväksi. Puhutteko tosiaankin vakavasti, vai vetoatteko vain suurten sanojen agitatooriseen tehokkuuteen, hyvät herrat? Sillä luuletteko tosiaankin, että kolmimiljoonaisen kansan armeijat voisivat karata satamiljoonaisen kansan kimppuun kuin lilliputit Gulliverin nukkuessa? (Sitähän tuli koitettua jatkosodassa, paska reissu mutta tulipahan tehtyä. Venäjä ei nukkunutkaan.)
xxx/ellauri291.html on line 88: Gene Roddenberry laati jo vuonna 1964 ehdotuksen tieteissarjasta, josta tulisi Star Trek. Vaikka hän markkinoi sitä julkisesti western-elokuvana ulkoavaruudessa – niin kutsuttuna " Wagon Train to the Stars" -junana, hän kertoi yksityisesti ystäville, että hän oli mallintamassa sitä Jonathan Swiftin Gulliver 's Travels -elokuvan mukaan ja aikoi jokaisessa jaksossa toimia kahdella tasolla: jännittävänä seikkailutarinana ja kökkönä moraalitarinana.
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