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.My Opinions on Gullivers Travels 格列夫游记读后感 Abstract： Swifts Gullivers Travels, the novel spicy Satires and Humors, quirky imagination and exaggeration, describes the passion for sailing adventure Gulliver, four degrees travel around the world, has experienced large and small, thrilling and interesting adventure. This entry mainly includes the introduction for the author Jonathan Swift and his writing background. As well as the various characters in Gullivers travels character analysis and what the author wants to express through the character in the story. Also write the style of the works and the authors writing style. Finally I talked about my own views and harvest. （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，经历了大大小小惊险而有趣的奇遇。我的这篇读后感主要包括了对于作者Jonathan Swift 的简介和他的写作背景。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。）Key Words : voyage 航程 background 背景 characterise刻画性格 text Recently I read a novel called “Gullivers Travels. As far as I am concerned, it is a very fantastic book and it gives people an adventurous feeling to read the novel. Before I read the novel, I really didnt know anything about the author of this novel. But after I have read the novel, I learned that the author of this novel is Jonathan Swift, who was born in 1667. According to what I learned from the book, Jonathan Swift was brought up by his uncle.OneofthemostinterestingquestionsaboutGulliversTravelsiswhethertheHouyhnhnmsrepresentanidealofrationalityorwhetherontheotherhandtheyarethebuttofSwiftssatire.Inotherwords,inBookIV,isSwiftpokingfunatthetalkinghorsesordoesheintendforustotakethemseriouslyastheproperwaytoact?IfwelookcloselyatthewaythattheHouyhnhnmsact,wecanseethatinfactSwiftdoesnottakethemseriously:heusesthemtoshowthedangersofpride.FirstwehavetoseethatSwiftdoesnoteventakeGulliverseriously.Forinstance,hisnamesoundsmuchlikegullible,whichsuggeststhathewillbelieveanything.Also,whenhefirstseestheYahoosandtheythrowexcrementonhim,herespondsbydoingthesameinreturnuntiltheyrunaway.Hesays,Imustneedsdiscoversomemorerationalbeing,eventhoughasahumanheisalreadythemostrationalbeingthereis.ThisiswhySwiftreferstoErasmusDarwinsdiscoveryoftheoriginofthespeciesandthevoyageoftheBeagle-toshowhowGulliverknowsthatpeopleareatthetopofthefoodchain.ButifLemuleGulliverissatirized,soaretheHouyhnhnms,whosevoicessoundlikethecallofcastrati.Theywalkontwolegsinsteadoffour,andseemtobemuchlikepeople.AsGulliversays,ItwaswiththeutmostastonishmentthatIwitnessedthesecreaturesplayingthefluteanddancingaVienesewaltz.Tomymind,theyseemedlikethegreatesthumanseverseenincourt,evenmoredextrousthantheLordEdmundBurke.Asthisquotedemonstrates,Gulliveristerriblyimpressed,buthisadmirationfortheHouyhnhnmsisshort-livedbecausetheyaresoprideful.Forinstance,theleaderoftheHouyhnhnmsclaimsthathehasreadalltheworksofCharlesDickens,andthathecansinglehandedlyrecitethenamesofalltheKingsandQueensofEnglanduptoGeorgeII.SwiftsubtlyshowsthatthisHouyhnhnmsprideismisplacedwhen,inthemiddleoftheintellectualcompetition,heforgetsthenameofQueenElizabethshusband.SwiftssatireoftheHouyhnhnmscomesoutinotherwaysaswell.OneofthemostmemorablescenesiswhenthedapplegreymareattemptstowoothehorsethatGuenivrehasbroughtwithhimtotheisland.Firstsheactsflirtatiously,paradingaroundthebewilderedhorse.Butwhenthisdoesnothavethedesiredeffect,shegetsanotheridea:AsIwatchedinamazementfrommyperchinthetopofatree,thesorrelnagdashedoffandreturnedwithayahooonherbackwhowasyetmoremonstrousthanMr.Popebeingfittedbyaclothier.Shedroppedthiscreaturebeforemynagasifofferingupasacrifice.Myhorsesniffedthecreatureandturnedaway.Itmightseemthatweshouldtakethissceneseriouslyasafailedattemptatcourtship,andthat consequentlyweshouldseethegreymareasanunrequitedlover.ButitmakesmoresenseifweseethatSwiftisbeingsatirichere:itisthefemaleHouyhnhnmwhomakesthemove,whichwouldnothavehappenedineighteenth-centuryEngland.TheHouyhnhmisbeingprideful,anditisthatpridethatmakeshimunabletoimpressGullivershorse.Gulliverimaginesthehorsesaying,Sblood,thenotionofcreatingthebarebackedbeastwithananimalwhohadheldMr.Popeonherbackmakesmequeezy.ThroughoutGulliversTravels,theHouyhnhmsareshowntobeanidealgonewrong.Thoughtheirintentmighthavebeengood,theydontknowhowtodowhattheywanttodobecausetheyarefilledwithpride.TheymisleadGulliverandtheyevenmisleadthemselves.ThesatireonthemisparticularlywellexplainedbythenewbornHouyhnhmwho,havingjustbeenborn,exclaims,Withthissortofentrance,whatmustIexpectfromtherestofmylife!.In my opinion, there is a certain connection between the background of the novel and the social conditions. Take this novel for example; the background of the novel is based on the social reality in England of that time.If I have the chance, I would like to be a man like Gulliver, because I am greatly inspired by his couragement and brave. Gulliver is the person, who travels the lands of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa and the country of the Houyhnhnms. I think he must have experienced much during the voyages. These four voyages brought new future to Gullivers life.The first voyage is to Lilliput. People of the lands of Lilliput are very small, it seems like the ant to us, and so Gulliver in the place is very big. The local people regard him as a monster. From the chapter of the novel, we can learn that people of Lilliput are of great kindness in giving Gulliver food and drink. While he was eating, they had prepared a platform to carry him to the capital city. The people of Lilliput，known as the Lilliputians，are very intelligent and clever with their handsFive hundred men built a special wooden platform with twentytwo wheelsNine hundred of the strongest men worked for about three hours to lift him on to the platform，and one thousand five hundred o f the Kings largest horses（each eleven and a half centimeters high）pulled him to the capitalBut he has experienced much, not only happy things but also unhappy things. As a reader of this novel, I can imagine how exciting how exciting the voyage was through the words written by the author.The next voyage is to Brobdingnag, which is completely different from Lilliput. Gulliver is like a small man in Lilliput, because people in Brobdingnag are very big, all of them are giants. Gulliver is clever to e please the king and the queen with his intelligence in music. In my opinion, Gulliver is patriotic for he argued with the king, because the king laughed at his country. In Gullivers mind, his country is very harmonious, people are honest and brave. No one can criticize his country. I admire him for this characteristic.The third voyage is to Laputa. From the chapter, I can learn Laputans are certainly strange people. Their heads always turn either to right or left：one of their eyes turns inwards，the other upwardsTheir main interests are music and mathematicsThey spend so much time thinking abut mathematical problems that they do not notice what is happening around themAs far as I am concerned, their life must be very boring, because they have nothing to do except thinking about mathematical problems. The last voyage is to Houyhnhnme.I think the country is very interesting, because it is controlled by horses. At first, the two horses helped Gulliver to drive away animals. Then, the horses led Gulliver to their house. Their house is very different from Gullivers house; it has no furniture and is very low. Unlike previous experience, this time Gulliver had to learn how to learn their language. It is very difficult to learn another language in a short time. So Gulliver only had learned a little of their language. Honestly speaking, I want to live in Houyhnhnme, because in this country which had no disease