had enough reason to teach their horses manners: perhaps they might also be the "wisest people" on earth (Swift 215). This conclusion represents the first change in Gulliver's character.
When Gulliver began exploring the land, he assumed the people would be hostile and shoot arrows at him. After meeting the intellectual horses, he soon changes his mind and acts as if he were looking forward to learning how they came to be so wise. He notices that the horses are intelligent. This causes a small problem for Gulliver because he cannot bring himself to believe, at least at first, that horses are intelligent, like humans. He decides that the horses are really people who have changed themselves into horses by using magical arts (Swift 216).
In the next chapter, Gulliver observes that the horse that originally greeted him was an upper-class horse and that the horses inside the house were servants and women, who did not hold as much rank within the Houyhnhnms. The author shows that, even among these superior being horses, t
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