Monkey's Pigsy and Gulliver's Travel's Yahoo's discussed.

Traveling to places where you have never gone is very exciting. Life itself can be described in terms of a journey. There are pitfalls along the way that one must learn to avoid, dangers that must be talked about and exciting new things to learned. One of the ways authors talk about a journey is in a travel writing. Jonathon Swift and Wu Ch’eng-en used the travel writing to tell two different types of stories. The characterization of the minor character’s of the Yahoo’s and Pigsy in their respective stories, are similar in their view of how passions need to be controlled but very different in their reasons of why such passions are bad.
During the Enlightenment in Europe people were taught that the body is controlled by two opposite forces: passion and reason. Reason was employed to control the rashness of passion. Jean-Baptiste Moliere believed that one should try to moderate his or her passions so they don’t take over one’s life . People consider passion as v...