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格列佛游记读后感英文版

MyOpinionsonGulliver’sTravels之南宫帮珍创作

创作时间：

二零二一年六月三十日

格列夫游记读后感

Abstract：

Swift's"Gulliver'sTravels",thenovelspicySatiresandHumors,quirkyimaginationandexaggeration,describesthepassionforsailingadventureGulliver,fourdegreestravelaroundtheworld,hasexperiencedlargeandsmall,thrillingandinterestingadventure.

ThisentrymainlyincludestheintroductionfortheauthorJonathanSwiftandhiswritingbackground.AswellasthevariouscharactersinGulliver'stravelscharacteranalysisandwhattheauthorwantstoexpressthroughthecharacterinthestory.Alsowritethestyleoftheworksandtheauthor'swritingstyle.FinallyItalkedaboutmyownviewsandharvest.（斯威夫特的《格列佛游记》,小说以辛辣的讽刺与幽默、离奇的想象与夸张,描述了酷爱航海冒险的格列佛,四度周游世界,经历了年夜年夜小小惊险而有趣的奇遇.我的这篇读后感主要包括了对作者JonathanSwift的简介和他的写作布景.以及格列夫游记中各种人物的性格分析和作者想通过这些人物的故事来表达什么情感.还写了作品的写作手法和作者的写作风格.最后我谈了一下自己的看法和收获.）

KeyWords:

voyage航程

background布景

characterise刻画··性格

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RecentlyIreadanovelcalled“Gulliver’sTravels’.AsfarasIamconcerned,itisaveryfantasticbookanditgivespeopleanadventurousfeelingtoreadthenovel.BeforeIreadthenovel,Ireallydidn’tknowanythingabouttheauthorofthisnovel.ButafterIhavereadthenovel,IlearnedthattheauthorofthisnovelisJonathanSwift,whowasbornin1667.AccordingtowhatIlearnedfromthebook,JonathanSwiftwasbroughtupbyhisuncle.

One of the most interesting questions about Gullivers Travels is whether the Houyhnhnms represent an ideal of rationality or whether on the other hand they are the butt of Swift's satire. In other words, in Book IV, is Swift poking fun at the talking horses or does he intend for us to take them seriously as the proper way to act?

 If we look closely at the way that the Houyhnhnms act, we can see that in fact Swift does not take them seriously:

 he uses them to show the dangers of pride.

First we have to see that Swift does not even take Gulliver seriously. For instance, his name sounds much like gullible, which suggests that he will believe anything. Also, when he first sees the Yahoos and they throw excrement on him, he responds by doing the same in return until they run away. He says, "I must needs discover some more rational being," even though as a human he is already the most rational being there is. This is why Swift refers to Erasmus Darwins discovery of the origin of the species and the voyage of the Beagle-to show how Gulliver knows that people are at the top of the food chain. But if Lemule Gulliver is satirized, so are the Houyhnhnms, whose voices sound like the call of castrati. They walk on two legs instead of four, and seem to be much like people. As Gulliver says, "It was with the utmost astonishment that I witnessed these creatures playing the flute and dancing a Vienese waltz. To my mind, they seemed like the greatest humans ever seen in court, even more dextrous than the Lord Edmund Burke" . As this quote demonstrates, Gulliver is terribly impressed, but his admiration for the Houyhnhnms is short-lived because they are so prideful. For instance, the leader of the Houyhnhnms claims that he has read all the works of Charles Dickens, and that he can singlehandedly recite the names of all the Kings and Queens of England up to George II. Swift subtly shows that this Houyhnhnms pride is misplaced when, in the middle of the intellectual competition, he forgets the name of Queen Elizabeths husband.

Swifts satire of the Houyhnhnms comes out in other ways as well. One of the most memorable scenes is when the dapple grey mare attempts to woo the horse that Guenivre has brought with him to the island. First she acts 

flirtatiously, parading around the bewildered horse. But when this does not have the desired effect, she gets another idea:

 "As I watched in amazement from my perch in the top of a tree, the sorrel nag dashed off and returned with a yahoo on her back who was yet more monstrous than Mr. Pope being fitted by a clothier. She dropped this creature before my nag as if offering up a sacrifice. My horse sniffed the creature and turned away." It might seem that we should take this scene seriously as a failed attempt at courtship, and thatconsequently we should see the grey mare as an unrequited lover. But it makes more sense if we see that Swift is being satiric here:

 it is the female Houyhnhnm who makes the move, which would not have happened in eighteenth-century England. The Houyhnhm is being prideful, and it is that pride that makes him unable to impress Gullivers horse. Gulliver imagines the horse saying, Sblood, the notion of creating the bare backed beast with an animal who had held Mr. Pope on her back makes me queezy .

Throughout Gullivers Travels, the Houyhnhms are shown to be an ideal gone wrong. Though their intent might have been good, they don't know how to do what they want to do because they are filled with pride. They mislead Gulliver and they even mislead themselves. The satire on them is particularly well explained by the new born Houyhnhm who, having just been born, exclaims, "With this sort of entrance, what must I expect from the rest of my life!

" .

Inmyopinion,thereisacertainconnectionbetweenthebackgroundofthenovelandthesocialconditions.Takethisnovelforexample;thebackgroundofthenovelisbasedonthesocialrealityinEnglandofthattime.

IfIhavethechance,IwouldliketobeamanlikeGulliver,becauseIamgreatlyinspiredbyhiscouragementandbrave.Gulliveristheperson,whotravelsthelandsofLilliput,Brobdingnag,LaputaandthecountryoftheHouyhnhnms.Ithinkhemusthaveexperiencedmuchduringthevoyages.ThesefourvoyagesbroughtnewfuturetoGulliver’slife.

ThefirstvoyageistoLilliput.PeopleofthelandsofLilliputareverysmall,itseemsliketheanttous,andsoGulliverintheplaceisverybig.Thelocalpeopleregardhimasamonster.Fromthechapterofthenovel,wecanlearnthatpeopleofLilliputareofgreatkindnessingivingGulliverfoodanddrink.Whilehewaseating,theyhadpreparedaplatformtocarryhimtothecapitalcity.ThepeopleofLilliput,knownastheLilliputians,areveryintelligentandcleverwiththeirhands．Fivehundredmenbuiltaspecialwoodenplatformwithtwenty－twowheels．Ninehundredofthestrongestmenworkedforaboutthreehourstolifthimontotheplatform,andonethousandfivehundredoftheKing'slargesthorses（eachelevenandahalfcentimetershigh）pulledhimtothecapital．Buthehasexperiencedmuch,notonlyhappythingsbutalsounhappythings.Asareaderofthisnovel,Icanimaginehowexcitinghowexcitingthevoyagewasthroughthewordswrittenbytheauthor.

ThenextvoyageistoBrobdingnag,whichiscompletelydifferentfromLilliput.GulliverislikeasmallmaninLilliput,becausepeopleinBrobdingnagareverybig,allofthemaregiants.Gulliverisclevertoepleasethekingandthequeenwithhisintelligenceinmusic.Inmyopinion,Gulliverispatrioticforhearguedwiththeking,becausethekinglaughedathiscountry.InGulliver’smind,hiscountryisveryharmonious,peoplearehonestandbrave.Noonecancriticizehiscountry.Iadmirehimforthischaracteristic.

ThethirdvoyageistoLaputa.Fromthechapter,IcanlearnLaputansarecertainlystrangepeople.Theirheadsalwaysturneithertorightorleft：

oneoftheireyesturnsin－wards,theotherupwards．Theirmaininterestsaremusicandmathematics．Theyspendsomuchtimethinkingabutmathematicalproblemsthattheydonotnoticewhatishappeningaroundthem．AsfarasIamconcerned,theirlifemustbeveryboring,becausetheyhavenothingtodoexceptthinkingaboutmathematicalproblems.

ThelastvoyageistoHouyhnhnme.Ithinkthecountryisveryinteresting,becauseitiscontrolledbyhorses.Atfirst,thetwohorseshelpedGullivertodriveawayanimals.Then,thehorsesledGullivertotheirhouse.TheirhouseisverydifferentfromGulliver’shouse;ithasnofurnitureandisverylow.Unlikepreviousexperience,thistimeGulliverhadtolearnhowtolearntheirlanguage.Itisverydifficulttolearnanotherlanguageinashorttime.SoGulliveronlyhadlearnedalittleoftheirlanguage.Honestlyspeaking,IwanttoliveinHouyhnhnme,becauseinthiscountrywhichhadnodisease,nocrime,andnowars.

WhenGulliverreturnedtoEngland,hewasdisappointedbypeople,becausetheycannotlearnfromtheHouys.Atfirst,hewashopingthatperhapshumanbeingswouldchangetheirwaysafterreadingthestoriesofhislifewiththeHouys．Buttheyaccusehimoflyinginhisbook．Andthenherealizedthatpeoplestilllie,steal,andfight,justastheyhavealwaysdone,andprobablywillalwaysdo．HefelthewasstupidtothinkthathecouldbringreasonandtruthintotheirlivesandthoughtsHumansareallYahoos

Conclusion：

IhopeIcouldhavethechancetotraveltheworldlikeGulliver.IeagerlywanttoliveinHouyhnhnme.Itssocietyisveryharmonious,Ihopeoursocietycouldbecomelikethatonedayinthefuture.Whatwecandoistolearntohelpeveryonearounduswhoneedshelp,andtrytounderstandothers.

创作时间：

二零二一年六月三十日