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1、Gullivers Travels ContentuIntroduction of Jonathan SwiftuIntroduction of Gullivers Travels 第1頁/共42頁Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift,a master satirist,was born in Dublin, Ireland.He was famous for Tale of a Tub, Gullivers Travels, The Battle of the Books ,and so on.Gullivers Travels 第2頁/共42頁Gullivers Tra

2、vels uBorn in Dublin, Ireland.uStudied at Dublins Trinity CollegeuAt 19, Swift went to England to serve as a private secretary to Sir William Temple , a powerful English statesman.uthe editor of the official Tory organ, The Examiner uOrdained an Anglican priest of St. Patricks Cathedral, Dublin in 1

3、695. uHe joined in the struggle of the Irish people against their English oppressors. uIn 1742 he was declared of unsound mind and memory and died 19 October 1745. Life Story第3頁/共42頁Gullivers Travels Major Works A Tale of a Tub ( 1704 ). Battle of the Books ( 1704 ). The Abolishing of Christianity (

4、 1708 ).Meditation upon a Broomstick ( 1710 ).Journal to Stella ( 1710-1713 ).Proposal for Correcting ( 1712 ). The Drapers Letters ( 1724 ).Gullivers Travels ( 1726 ). The Day Of Judgment ( 1731 ).Verses on the Death of Dr Swift ( 1731 ).第4頁/共42頁Gullivers Travels Swifts Artistic FeatureslSatireHis

5、satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful. lSimplicity and DirectnessSwift is always most unsurpassed in the writing. He defined a good style as “proper words in proper places.”第5頁/共42頁Gullivers Travels Comments on Jonat

6、han Swift1.Swifts satire is relatively unique in that he offers no resolutions. 2.He never offers the reader a positive set of values to embrace. 3.He does not persuade to any position, but he does persuade readers from an assortment of positions.第6頁/共42頁Gullivers Travels Literary Position and influ

7、enceuSwift is one of the greatest masters of English prose.uSwift is a master satirist. uSwift was a man of great moral integrity and social charm. 第7頁/共42頁 Swifts greatest satire work, Gullivers Travels, is written in 1726.But the book has not lost its significance to the present day and can be jus

8、tly ranked among the best novel of world literature.第8頁/共42頁 Gullivers Travels serves as a biting satire, and Swift ensures that it is both humorous and critical, constantly attacking British and European society through its descriptions of imaginary countries. Gullivers Travels 第9頁/共42頁 Written in

9、the form of a travel journal, Gullivers Travels is the fictional account of four extraordinary voyages made by Lemuel Gulliver, a physician who signs on to serve as a ships surgeon when he is unable to provide his family with a sufficient income in London.第10頁/共42頁 The book begins with a very short

10、preamble in which Gulliver, in the style of books of the time, gives a brief outline of his life and history prior to his voyages. He enjoys travelling, although it is that love of travel that is his downfall.Gullivers Travels 第11頁/共42頁 Gulliver makes our deep-sea voyages, which are described in the

11、 four parts of the book. LilliputLaputaBrobdingnagHouyhnhnms第12頁/共42頁 The first part tells about his experience in Lilliput, where the inhabitants are only six inches tall, twelve times smaller than the normal human beings and all the things they have or say or do are simply miniatures of what is th

12、e real world. In the second part, Gulliver is left alone in Brobdingnag where people are not only ten times taller and larger than ordinary human beings, but also superior in wisdom. The third part deals mainly with his accidental visit to the Laputa , where the philosophers and projectors devote al

13、l their time and energy to the study of some absurd problems. The last part is a most interesting account of his discoveries in the Houyhnhnm land, where horses are endowed with reason and all good and admirable qualities, and are the governing class.第13頁/共42頁Appreciation of Chapter four第14頁/共42頁Fir

14、st voyage-Lilliput On the very first voyage, Gulliver is shipwrecked. Of all the ships crew he alone survives. He swims to the shore of a strange land, inhabited by Lilliputians(利立浦特人), the tallest of whom is six inches high.Before the Chapter four, we should know the backgrounds.第15頁/共42頁The pictur

15、e shows that arriving at the island, Gulliver was catched by the Lilliputians, and then sent to the emperor.第16頁/共42頁Little by little he gets used to their life and gets license to see Mildendo(密爾敦多) ，the metropolis.And chapter four is about the metropolis: Mildendo.第17頁/共42頁The first section : abou

16、t the cityThe city is an exact square, each side of the wall being five hundred feet long.The two great streets run across and divide it into four quarters. 也就是說密爾敦多這個城市是一個正方形，它的大小大概就是兩個足球場。同時它被兩條主要街道分為田字形。第18頁/共42頁The second section : about the emperors palaceThe palace is in the center of the city

17、 and is enclosed by a wall of two feet high.Gulliver discovered it the most splendid apartments that can be imagined.第19頁/共42頁The third paragraph : tell us the author will give readers a further descriptions about its first erection, laws, learning, religion and so on in a greater work.告訴讀者將會在下一部作品中

18、詳細介紹小人國，從它的建立到它的法律、宗教等各方面。第20頁/共42頁The forth paragraph : Principle secretary tell two mighty evils（內(nèi)戰(zhàn)和侵略）that Mildendo has to meet.The first evils is a violent faction（內(nèi)戰(zhàn)） at home between TRAMECKSAN (特萊姆克三)and SLAMECKSAN（斯萊姆克三）The second evil is the danger of an invasion, by a most potent enemy, fro

19、m abroad.小人國內(nèi)戰(zhàn)實際諷刺英國國內(nèi)托利黨和輝格黨常年不息的斗爭和對外戰(zhàn)爭，其實質(zhì)是政客們在一些國計民生毫不相干的細節(jié)上勾心斗角。第21頁/共42頁The fifth paragraph : introduce faction and invasion in detailFactionReason：high heels and low heels between TRAMECKSAN and SLAMECKSANInvasionReason: controversy on breaking eggs小人國的兩黨以鞋跟高矮為區(qū)分標志，這里影射的是當年英國的托利黨（即保守黨的前身）和輝格黨

20、（后來發(fā)展成自由黨）兩黨政治；而吃雞蛋時是從大頭敲開還是從小頭敲開，則指的是天主教與新教（亦稱清教，即加爾文教派）之間關(guān)于教會儀式的無稽之爭。為了這一區(qū)區(qū)爭端，竟導(dǎo)致了小人國的內(nèi)戰(zhàn)，甚至殃及鄰國。第22頁/共42頁The sixth paragraph : Gulliver was ready to defend his person and state against all invaders.有君子之風(fēng)，愿意幫助朋友，為了朋友他甘愿冒生命危險，也會隨時準備抗擊一切對朋友不利的人。 第23頁/共42頁SummaryGullivers Travels 第24頁/共42頁Main Content

21、Gullivers Travels Main contentMain content Gulliver , who left a good impression to the king and the people of Lilliput through his friendly behavior when he arrived in Lilliput, made the king agree to restore his freedom and had license to see the metropolis. 第25頁/共42頁 Through gullivers narrative,

22、we have a preliminary understanding of the Lilliput. But these descriptions are surface phenomenon, from the back through the ministers talking with Gulliver, we learn more of Lilliput gradually.Gullivers Travels 第26頁/共42頁 In this country, there are two struggling parties, which are distinguished by

23、 the use of high and low heels . Besides, the Lilliputians are threatened with an invasion from the island of Blefuscu. In this case, Gulliver intends to resolve the crisis relying on his own strength.Gullivers Travels 第27頁/共42頁 格列佛初到小人國通過自己友善的行為獲得了小人國國王和人民的好感，使得國王同意恢復(fù)了他的自由并得以參觀全國。通過格列佛的敘說，我們初步了解了小人

24、國，但這些描述都是表面現(xiàn)象，越往后隨著內(nèi)務(wù)大臣和格列佛的聊天，我們對小人國的了解越逐漸深入。Gullivers Travels 第28頁/共42頁 小人國有兩大危機，國內(nèi)黨派爭奪十分激烈（內(nèi)部矛盾是穿鞋子高跟還是低跟形成高根黨與低跟黨，太子為了爭取更多支持，不得不穿一只高跟、一只低跟的鞋子），國外又有強敵入侵（外部矛盾則是因為雞蛋的打法，一方認為應(yīng)該先打大頭，另一方認為應(yīng)該先打小頭，形成了大端派與小端派，由此引起連年爭戰(zhàn)），這時格列佛打算憑借自己的力量化解危機。Gullivers Travels 第29頁/共42頁Paragraphs DividingGullivers Travels 第30

25、頁/共42頁Paragraph 1-3 : Describing the structure Gulliver saw when visiting the metropolis.Paragraph 4-6 : Chatting with the minister. Something about the country.Gullivers Travels 第31頁/共42頁CharacteristicGullivers Travels 第32頁/共42頁 Gullivers Travels expresses the authors ideas in a perfect art form. T

26、he author uses the rich ironic technique and mythical story profoundly analyzes the British social reality at that time.Gullivers Travels 第33頁/共42頁 格列佛游記以較為完美的藝術(shù)形式表達了作者的思想觀念。作者用豐富的諷刺手法和虛構(gòu)幻想的離奇情節(jié),深刻地剖析了當時的英國社會現(xiàn)實。作品熔現(xiàn)實與幻想與一爐,將兩者進行對比,用虛實的反差來完善諷刺的藝術(shù)效果,具有強烈感染力。Gullivers Travels 第34頁/共42頁 Firstly, the most distinctive features of this part is irony. The author uses two struggling parties , high-heeled party and low-heeled party, to mirror the struggle between the Tory Party and Wh