Man or Beast?

I can't seem to help relating Gulliver's adventures to the film "Pirates of the Caribbean." Once again, in these chapters, I pericieve a strong link between the two. Gulliver is marooned on a deserted island because his sailors mutiny against him and become pirates. This is nearly exaclty what happens to Captain Jack Sparrow, only they were pirates even before the mutiny. I can't help but think that Johnathan Swift's epic served as a soource for the inspiration of this Disney story. I have chosen to go further this time. In this same chapter, Gulliver is attacked by a herd of strange, repulsive beasts. During his encounter with them, a horse comes in and frightens the creatures away. I find it interesting that the animal coming to his rescue is a horse. People have always seen horses as strong, majestic animals that appear to impose or project a high degree of power. Of unperishable might that seems to makes them invinsible. I remember hearing about the origins of the myth of the cenatur beginning during the age of conquest. When the natives first came across the european colonizers, they saw them on horseback. The natives, having never seen the beasts before, assumed that man and horse were all but one. I find that this relates to the image of the horse here in Gulliver's Travels because it is also imposing this aura of dominance over these foul creatures that are the "yahoos". Also, it is seen that the yahoos appear to be more like humans, which leads to another point: the squalor and filth of human life. I see this taking me to something we discussed a while ago: the struggle between man and nature. In Gulliver's Travels human behaviour appears to be more similar to the revolting, hideous nature of the yahoos, while the horses are seen as, beautiful, godlike creatures. We could say that, therefore in Gulliver's Travels nature wins the struggle. We often refer to horses as "beasts" but could it be that after all, its the other way around, and man is the beast?