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精品文档 1欢迎下载 DonDon t t bebe a a YahooYahoo Originally accomplished by an English writer Jonathan Swift in 1726 and later on adapted for a film by Charles Sturridge and a cartoon by Peter R Hunt Gulliver s Travels is such a famous satirical novel that influences both adults and children The edition I read is one of the adaptations published by Oxford University I was completely absorbed in its fantastically designed plot and the deep meaning it conveys to my mind The author Jonathan Swift is an English satirist statesman and poet He was born in a poor family in Ireland and was brought up by his uncle When he grew up he became a private secretary in Moore Park with other s help The master of the park was an experienced politician and philosopher There s no doubt that he gave a huge impact on Swift During those years Swift went through so much that after he left the park he spared no effort to fight for freedom and independence for Irish people The Gulliver s Travels wrote by the year 1726 exposing the darkness of the society at that time The leading character Gulliver who travels to the imaginary lands of Lilliput Brobdingnag Laputa and the country of the Houyhnhnms had experienced much during the expedition All of these four voyages brought new opportunities and future to Gulliver s life 精品文档 2欢迎下载 and these are also for satirizing the way of the English The first voyage is to Lilliput where people are extremely small so Gulliver is a giant to Lilliputians Lilliputians seem friendly but actually they are very ridiculous and stupid the king even wanted to kill Gulliver because he made water to put out a fire to save the queen s life The second voyage is to Brobdingnag which is absolutely different from Lilliput Gulliver is like a Lilliputian in Europe and he began to understand how a very small creature feels before a giant Luckily his master is very kind to him But the king laughed at his country which is famous for its beautiful places its brave and honest people and criticized its inhuman cruel ideas about murdering people The third voyage is to Laputa Laputans are strange looking and their main interests are music and mathematics They pay little attention to others so it s very difficult to talk with them Gulliver also went to the Glubdugdribb and Luggnagg nearby In a visit to Glubdugdribb Gulliver was able to call ghosts to answer his questions In Luggnagg he learnt something about Stuldbrugs who are miserable for their long lives with poor heath The last voyage is to the country of Houyhnhnms which is controlled by horses Gulliver felt happy with these sensible gentle 精品文档 3欢迎下载 creatures which never lied or stole in a country which had no disease no crime and no wars But at last he had to leave On returning to England Gulliver felt disappointed with other humans including his children and wife He found himself is so stupid to think that he could bring reason and truth into their lives and thoughts So he told others to keep away from him As the narrator said human are all Yahoos and Yahoos they will remain Yahoo described as an ugly animal is a reflection of human beings Yahoos had human faces and they also so violently fond of the pieces of gold or silver that they dig for days to get them out of the ground and hide them jealously from other yahoos This is really an action of human I don t like people who are always thinking about how to attack other countries and kill tens of thousands of people who have never hurt them They do these only with the purpose of conquering more lands As far as I m concerned if we think like the horses in Houyhnhnms