My Opinions on Gulliver 【2 】’s Travels
格列夫纪行读后感
Abstract：
Swift's "Gulliver's 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 Gulliver's 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 author's writing style. Finally I talked about my own views and harvest.（斯威夫特的《格列佛纪行》，小说以辛辣的讥讽与滑稽.瑰异的想象与夸大，描写了热爱帆海冒险的格列佛，四度漫游世界，阅历了大大小小惊险而有味的奇遇.我的这篇读后感重要包括了对于作者Jonathan Swift 的简介和他的写作背景.以合格列夫纪行中各类人物的性情剖析和作者想经由过程这些人物的故事来表达什么情绪.还写了作品的写作手段和作者的写作风格.最后我谈了一下本身的意见和收成.）
Key Words :
voyage 航程
background 背景characterise
characterise描绘··性情
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Recently I read a novel called “Gulliver’s Travels’. As far as I am concerned, it is a very fantastic book and it gives people anadventurous feeling to read the novel. Before I read the novel, I really didn’t 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.
One of the most interesting questions about Gullivers T ravels is whether the Houyhnhnms represent an ideal of r ationality or whether on the other hand they are the bu tt of Swift's satire. In other words, in Book IV, is S wift poking fun at the talking horses or does he intend for us to take them seriously as the proper way to a ct? 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 G ulliver seriously. For instance, his name sounds much lik
e gullible, which suggests that he will believe anything.
Also, when he first sees the Yahoos and they throw ex crement 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 cal l 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 terrib ly impressed, but his admiration for the Houyhnhnms is s hort-
lived because they are so prideful. For instance, the le ader of the Houyhnhnms claims that he has rea
d all the
works of Charles Dickens, and that he can singlehandedl y recite the names of all the Kings and Queens of Engl and up to George II. Swift subtly shows that this Houyh nhnms pride is misplaced when, in the middle of the int ellectual competition, he forgets the name of Queen Eliza beths husband.
Swifts satire of the Houyhnhnms comes out in other way s as well. One of the most memorable scenes is when th e dapple grey mare attempts to woo the horse that Gueni vre 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 r eturned with    a yahoo on her back who was yet more mons trous than Mr. Pope being fitted by    a clothier. She dro pped this creature before my nag as if offering up    a s acrifice. 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 sa tiric here: it is the female Houyhnhnm who makes the mo ve, 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 Ho uyhnhm who, having just been born, exclaims, "With this sort of entrance, what must I expect from the rest of my life!" .
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,

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