格列佛游記讀后感英文版

1、My Opinions on Gulliver s Travels格列夫游記讀后感Abstract :Swifts Gullivers Travels, the no vel spicy Satires and Humors, quirkyimagi nati on and exaggerati on, describes the passi on for saili ng adve nture Gulliver, four degrees travel around the world, has experieneed large and small, thrilling and inter

2、esting adventure.This en try main ly in eludes the in troduct ion for the author Jon atha nSwift and his writing background.As well as the various characters inGullivers travels character an alysis and what the author wants to expressthrough the character in the story. Also write the style of the wo

3、rks andthe authors writ ing style. Fin ally I talked about my own views andharvest.（斯威夫特的格列佛游記，小說以辛辣的諷刺與幽默、離奇的想象 與夸張，描述了酷愛航海冒險(xiǎn)的格列佛，四度周游世界，經(jīng)歷了大大小小驚險(xiǎn)而 有趣的奇遇。我的這篇讀后感主要包括了對于作者Jon athan Swift的簡介和他的寫作背景。以及格列夫游記中各種人物的性格分析和作者想通過這些人物的故 事來表達(dá)什么情感。還寫了作品的寫作手法和作者的寫作風(fēng)格。最后我談了一下自己的看法和收獲。）Key Words :voyage 航程backgro

4、und背景characterise 刻畫性格textRecently I read a novel called“Gulliver s Travels . As far as I amconcern ed, it is a very fan tastic book and it gives people an adve nturous feeling to read the novel. Before I read the novel, I really didn t knowanything about the author of this no vel. But after I have

5、read the no vel, I learned that the author of this no vel is Jon atha n Swift, who was born in 1667. Accord ing to what I lear ned from the book, Jon atha n Swift was brought up by his uncle.One of the mostin teresti ngquesti onsabout Gulliversto act? If we lookcloselyat the way that the HouyTravels

6、 iswhethertheHouyh nhnmsreprese ntanidealof ratio nalityor whetheronthe other handtheyarethe butt ofSwifts satire.Inotherwords, inBookIV,isSwift pok ingfun atthetalki nghorses ordoesheintend forus to take themseriouslyas theproperwayhnhnmsact,wecansee that infactSwiftdoesnot take them seriously:he u

7、ses themto showthedan gersof pride.First wehavetosee that Swiftdoesnoteve ntakeGulliverseriously.Forin sta nee,hisn amesoundsmuch like gullible,whichsuggests that hewillbelieveany thi ng.Also, whe nhefirstsees the Yahoosandtheythrowexcreme nton him,heresp ondsby doingthesameinreturnun tiltheyrunaway

8、. Hesays, I mustn eedsdiscover somemorerati onalbein g,eve nthoughas ahuman he isalreadythemostrati onalbeing there is.This is whySwift refersto ErasmusDarwinsdiscoveryoftheorigi nof the species andthevoyageof the Beagle-toshowhowGulliverknowsthatpeopleareat theopof thefoodcha in. But ifLemule Gulli

9、veris satirized,so aretheHouyh nhnms,whosevoicessoundlike thte call of castrati. They walk on two legsin steadof four, and seem to be much like people. As Gulliver says,It was with the utmostast oni shme ntthat I wit nessedthese creatures play ing the flute and dancing a Vienes e waltz. To my mi nd,

10、theyseemed like the greatesthumans ever see n in court, eve n more dextrous tha n theLordEdm undBurke. Asthis quotedem on strates,Gulliveristerriblyimpressed,buthis admirati onfor theHouyh nhnmsis short-livedbecause they are so prideful.Forin sta nee,the leader oftheHouyh nhnmsclaims thathehasread a

11、ll the worksofCharles Dicke ns, andthathecansin gleha ndedlyrecitethen amesof all theKingsandQuee nsof En gla ndupto George II. Swiftsubtly shows that thisHouyh nhnmspride is misplaced whe n,in the middle of the in tellectualcompetitio n,he forgets then ameof Quee n Elizabethshusba nd.Swiftssatireof

12、 theHouyh nhnmscomes outinotherwaysaswell.One ofthemost memorablescenesis whenthedapplegreymareattemptsto woothehorsethatGuenivrehas broughtwith him to theisla nd.Firstshe actsflirtatiously,parad ingaroundthebewilderedhorse.Butwhe nthisdoes nothavethedesired effect,shegetsano theridea:As Iwatchedina

13、mazeme ntfrommy perch inthetop ofa tree,thesorrel nag dashedoffandretur nedwith ayahooonher back whowasyetmoremon stroustha nMr. Pope being fitted by a clothier. She dropped this creature before my nag as if offe ring up a sacrifice. My horse sniffed the creature and turned away. It might seem that

14、we should take this sce ne seriously as a failed attempt at courtship, and th atcon seque ntly we should see the grey mare as an unreq uitedlover.But it makesmoresense if we see thatSwiftis being satiric here:it isthefemaleHouyh nhnmwho makes the move, which would not have happe ned ineightee nth-ce

15、 nturyEn gla nd.The Houyh nhm is beingprideful,andit isthatpride thatmakeshimun abletoimpressGullivershorse.Gulliverimag inesthehorsesaying, Sblood,thenoti onof creati ngthebarebackedbeastwithanani malwhohad heldMr. Popeon herbackmakesmequeezy .Throughout Gullivers Travels, the Houyh nhms areshow nt

16、obe anidealgonewrong.Thoughtheirintent might have beengood,theydontknow how todo whattheywant todobecausetheyare filled withpride. TheymisleadGulliverandtheyeve nmisleadthemselves.Thesatire onthemis particularlywellexpla inedby thenewbornHouyh nhmwho,hav ingjustbee nborn,exclaims,With thissortofentr

17、an ce,what mustI expect fromthe rest ofmylife!.Inmy op inion,thereisa certainconnectionbetwee nthebackgroundof theno velandthe socialconditions.Take thisno velfor example; the backgroundof the novel is based on the socialreality in En gla nd of that time.If I have the cha nee, I would like to be a m

18、an like Gulliver, because I am greatly in spired by his courageme nt and brave. Gulliver is the pers on,who travels the lands of Lilliput, Brobd ingn ag, Laputa and the country of the Houyhnhnms. I think he must have experieneedmuch during thevoyages. These four voyages brought new future to Gullive

19、r s 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 mon ster. From the chapter of the no vel, we can learn that people of Lilliput are of great kindness in giv

20、ing 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 asthe Lilliputians , are very intelligent and clever with their hands . Five hundredmen built a special woodenplatform with twenty twowheels . Nine hundred o

21、f 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 capital . But he has experieneed much, not only happy things but also unhappy things. As a reader

22、of this novel, I can imagine how excit ing how excit ing the voyage was through the words writte n by the author.The n ext voyage is to Brobd ingn ag, which is completely differe nt fromLilliput.Gulliver is like a small man in Lilliput, because people inBrobd ingnag are very big, all of them are gia

23、 nts. Gulliver is clever to e please the king and the queen with his intelligenee in music. In my opinion, Gulliver is patriotic for he argued with the king, because the king laughed at his country. In Gulliver s mind, his country is very harm onio us, people are hon est and brave. No one can critic

24、ize his coun try. I admire him for this characteristic.The third voyage is to Laputa. From the chapter, I can lear n Laputa nsare certai nly stra nge people.Their heads always turn either to right orleft : one of their eyes turns in wards , the other upwards . Their main interests are music and math

25、ematics . They spend so much time thinking abut mathematical problems that they do not no tice what is happe ning around them . As 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 Houyh nhnme.l th

26、i nk the country is veryin teresti ng, because it is con trolled by horses. At first, the two horses helped Gulliver to drive away ani mals. Then, the horses led Gulliver to their house. Their house is very different from Gulliver s house; it has nofurniture and is very low. Un like previous experie nee, this time Gulliver had to lear n how to lear n their Ian guage. It is very difficult to lear n ano ther Ian guage in a short time. So Gulliver on ly had lear ned a little of their Ian guage. Hon estly speak in g, I want to live in Houyh nhnme, because in this country which had no di