Gulliver's Travels
Author:Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667- October 19, 1745)
British satirists, politicians, writers and poets
He is the world's greatest irony one of the masters of literature. He represented the irony of the British social conscience, intellectual and full of sorrow, bitter and astringent but eager eelings. Other main works:
《书的战争》 (1704）The Battle of the Books 《一只桶的故事》（1704） Tale of a Tub 《斯特拉日记》（1710-1713）Journal to Stella 《布商的信》（1724，1725） Letters of Mercer 《一个小小的建议》（1729）A Modest Proposal Background
In the18th century Britain established the bourgeois parlia- mentary system in political, primitive accumulation of capit-al increased fastly in economy. In the 1960s, Britain began the industrial revolution. British enlightenment writer with a rational for arms against feudal, also criticizes capitalism In the 60 s, Britain began to the industrial revolution. British enlightenment writer with a rational as arms against feudal, also criticizes some defects of capitalism 。
This book was completed in 1726.The idea of\came from a friend’s party, at the time of Swift talking about political greed shameless ways he teared up angrily, and wrote the first volume of the work. The abstract of the story
The clue of the novel is the surgeon Gulliver's four sailing adventures , and the total cosists of four parts.
The first volume: tell us the small Lilliput's adventure of Gulliver The second volume：describe Gulliver's travels in Brobdingnag The third volume: experience in Laputa island after his boat was attacked by pirate in sailing
The fourth volume : the experience in Houyhnhnms The artistic features of Gulliver's travels
1.The use of satire :In fact, the so-called small states, adult countrie sand the wisdom, it is the reflection of social reality in Britain at that time. The British is criticism and sarcastic object of the writer. 2.The novel conbines the fantasy property of the plot with the authenticit of the reality,and also increased the unique artistic charm.
3.The style of the author's writing is simple and concise. For hundreds of years, Gulliver's travels has been knowed by old and young people in European countries. My feelings
When I first saw this book, I thought it was like \that novel. But when I opened the book and looked at the preface of the book , I knew this is a full of fairy tale colour novel with satire.But the novel's fairy tale colour of the characteristics of the surface is local, sharp deep irony is the soul.
On the other hand, I enjoy Gulliver's unforgetable experience in Houyhnhnms.He thought that world is a real full of happiness and cheerful of place.So that when the hero leaft there he flew tears of sadness.
