Jonathan swift gulliver's travels

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(1667—1745)

Life Works Artistic features Gulliver’s Travels

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Swift was one of the greatest masters of English prose,satirist (讽刺小说家), essayist(评论家 ), political pamphleteer(小 册子作者 ) , poet, priest Swift was a man of great moral integrity and social charm.

(1667- 1745)

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1667 born in a poor family in Dublin, Ireland. 1682-1689 Trinity College in Dublin(都柏林三一学院) 1688, he worked as a secretary of Sir William Temple(威 廉·邓波尔爵士) 1710 be the editor of the Examiner《考察报》when Tory came to power 1713 he became dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral 1745, Swift died buried in his own cathedral

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Major WorksA Tale of a Tub ( 1697). 《一个木桶的故事》 一个木桶的故事》 Battle of the Books ( 1697 ). 《书籍之战》 书籍之战》 The Abolishing of Christianity ( 1708 ). Meditation upon a Broomstick ( 1710 ). Journal to Stella ( 1710-13 ). 《给斯黛拉的日记》 给斯黛拉的日记》 给斯黛拉的日记 The Drapier's Letters ( 1724 ).《布商的信》 《布商的信》 Gulliver‘s Travels ( 1726 ). 《格列佛游记》 格列佛游记》 A Modest Proposal ( 1729 ) 《一个温和的建议》 一个温和的建议》 The Day Of Judgment ( 1731 ). Verses on the Death of Dr Swift ( 1731 ).back

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Swift’s Artistic FeaturesSatire His satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful.Simplicity and Directness Swift is always most unsurpassed (非常卓越的)in the writing. He defined a good style as “proper words in proper places makes the true definition of a style(语体)” (A style is using the proper words in proper places.)

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Gulliver's TravelsSwift’s greatest satire work, Gulliver's Travels, is written in 1726, the book has not lost its significance to the present day and can be justly ranked among the best novel of world literature.

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Plot and Major CharactersWritten in the form of a travel journal, Gulliver's Travels is the fictional account of voyages made by Lemuel Gulliver, a physician who signs on to serve as a ship's surgeon when he is unable to provide his family with a sufficient income in London.

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Gulliver makes our deep-sea voyages, which are described in the four parts of the book.

Houyhnhnms 慧马国 Laputa(飞岛国)

Lilliput 利立浦特(小人国) Brobdingnag 布罗丁奈格(大人国)

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First voyage---Lilliput(利立普特) On the very first voyage, Gulliver is shipwrecked. Of all the ship’s crew he alone survives. He swims to the shore of a strange land, inhabited by Lilliputians, the tallest of whom is six inches high.

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Little by little he got used to their life. The king ask him to perish the neighboring state, but he refused. He left Lilliput avoiding being killed.

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Major themes The first voyage has been interpreted as an allegorical(讽喻的) satire of the political events of the early eighteenth century, a commentary

on the moral state of England. The war with the tiny neighboring island represents England‘s rivalry(对抗) between Whigs(辉格党) and Tories(托利党).

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Second voyage---Brobdingnag(布罗丁奈格)Gulliver finally escapes Lilliput and returns briefly to England before a second voyage takes him to Brobdingnag. While on shore, Gulliver is captured by giants, each of whom is the size of a water- . tower

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On the whole, the Brobdingnagians are good-natured creatures, and they treat Gulliver kindly, though they are amused by his tiny size and looked upon him as a plaything.

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Compared with Lilliput, the Brobdingnagians have an enlightened monarch(开明的君主). She often interrogates(询问) Gulliver on European affairs.

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Gulliver abruptly departs Brobdingnag when a giant eagle flies off with him and drops him in the ocean. (2 years)

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Third voyage---Laputa (勒普它岛)

He soon embarks on his third voyage to the flying island of Laputa