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1、本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 王夏夏 徐曉雅 姚永云 張敏 趙培培 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 Born 30 November 1667 Dublin, Ireland Died 19 October 1745 (aged 77) Ireland Pen name M.B. Drapier, Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaf fOccupation Satirist, essayist, political p

2、amphleteer, poet, priest Language English Alma mater Trinity College, Dublin Notable work Gullivers Travels A Modest Proposal A Tale of a Tub Drapiers Letters Jonathan Swift 喬納森斯威夫特 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 Biography Jonathan Swift, son of the English lawyer Jonathan Swift

3、 the elder, was born in Dublin, Ireland, on November 30, 1667. He grew up there in the care of his uncle before attending Trinity College at the age of fourteen, where he stayed for seven years, graduating in 1688. In that year, he became the secretary of Sir William Temple, an English politician an

4、d member of the Whig party. In 1694, he took religious orders in the Church of Ireland and then spent a year as a country parson. He then spent further time in the service of Temple before returning to Ireland to become the chaplain of the earl伯爵爵位of Berkeley伯克利( 美國加利福尼亞州西部城市). 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科

5、學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 Meanwhile, he had begun to write satires . on the political and religious corruption surrounding him, working on A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books. He also wrote a number of political pamphlets in favor of Whig party. 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請

6、聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 In 1709 he went to London to campaign for the Irish church but was unsuccessful. After some conflicts with the Whig party, mostly because of Swifts strong allegianceto the church, he became a member of the more conservative Tory party in 1710. Unfortunately for Swift, the Tory government

7、fell out of power in 1714 and Swift, despite his fame for his writings, fell out of favor. Swift, who had been hoping to be assigned a position in the Church of England, instead returned to Dublin, where he became the dean of St. Patricks 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 During hi

8、s brief time in England, Swift had become friends with writers such as Alexander Pope. Late in life, Swift seemed to many observers to become even more caustic and bitter than he had been. Three years before his death, he was declared unable to care for himself, and guardians were appointed. On Octo

9、ber 19, 1745, Swift died 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 1. Gullivers Travels 格列佛游記（1726） ( His greatest satiric work) 2. The Battle of the Books 書籍之戰(zhàn)（1697） 3. Tale of a Tub 一只桶的故事（1697） 4. A Modest Proposal 一個溫和的建議（1729） 5. Journal to Stella 斯特拉日記（1710-1713） 6. The Drapiers Lett

10、er 布商的信（1724） 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 ? Swift is one of the greatest masters of English prose. ? Swift himself defines a good style as “Proper words in proper places” 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 Language ? His language is always simple, clear, vigo

11、rous and concise. There are no ornaments in his writing, but it comes home to the reader. 1.Clear, simple and concrete diction 2. Uncomplicated sentence structure 3. Economy and conciseness of language 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 Satire ? Swift is a master satirist, and his i

12、rony is deadly. But his satire is masked by an outward gravity, and an apparent calmness conceals his bitter irony. ? In his writing, he uses all kinds of techniques of satire, such as direct attack, indirect attack, irony and so on. This makes his satire all the more powerul, as shown in his “Modes

13、t proposal” (The best model of satire in English history). 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 Gullivers Travels By Jonathan Swift (喬納森.斯威夫特) 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 Background information In Britain of the 18 th century, farmers living standard got worse

14、and worse ,so they resisted the noble enclosure movement. The internal contradiction of the ruling class was fierce. The contradiction between the mother country and colony became Increasingly contentious. 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 1.In short, factionalism was serious; poli

15、tical corruption was common. 2.Meanwhile, the business was prosperous; its oversea trade developed well. 3.Britain enlarged its foreign colonial expansion. ? 4.The material desire of the british people inflated. 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 Title ? Gulliver makes our deep-sea

16、voyages, ? which are described in the four parts of the book. 小人國 大人國大人國 飛島國 慧馬國 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 First voyage-Lilliput On the very first voyage, Gulliver is shipwrecked. Of all the ships crew，he survives. He swims to the shore of a strange land, inhabited by Lilli

17、putians, the tallest of whom is just six inches high. 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 When bending my eyes downward as much as I could, I perceived a human not six inches high! 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 The king of lilliput 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。

18、文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 ? Little by little he gets used to their life and even takes part in the war with the neighbouring state of Blefuseu. 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 Second voyage- Brobdingnag Gulliver finally escapes Lilliput and returns briefly to England before a second

19、voyage takes him to Brobdingnag. While on shore, Gulliver is captured by giants, each of whom is the size of a water-tower. 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 On the whole, the Brobdingnagians are good-natured creatures, and they treat Gulliver kindly, though they are amused by his

20、tiny size and looked upon him as a plaything. 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 Compare with Lilliput, the Brobdingnagians have an enlightened monarch（開明的君主）. She often interrogates（詢問） Gulliver on European affairs. 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之

21、用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 Gulliver abruptly departs Brobdingnag when a giant eagle flies off with him and drops him in the ocean. 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 Third voyage-Laputa He soon embarks on his third voyage to the flying island of Laputa. 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能

22、作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 Laputa is a mysterious land inhabited by scientists, magicians, and sorcerers（男巫） who engage in ridiculous experiment. 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 Final voyage-Houyhnhnm Once again Gulliver returns to England before a final journey, to the la

23、nd of the Houyhnhnm 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 Houyhnhnms are a superior race of intelligent horses .In the country, they are ruling class. yahoo(野胡) ,a vile(極壞的) and depraved（墮落的） race of ape-like creatures, is the ruled class. 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或

24、網(wǎng)站刪除。 Gulliver is eventually exiled from Houyhnhnm society when the horses gently insist that Gulliver must return to live among his own kind. After this fourth and final voyage, he returns to England, where he has great difficulty adjusting to everyday life. All people everywhere remind him of the

25、Yahoos. 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 Major themes ? The first and second voyage has been interpreted as an allegorical satire of the political events of the early eighteenth century, a commentary on the moral state of England. ? touching upon the political, religious, legal, m

26、ilitary, scientific, philosophical as well as literary institutions, about almost every aspect of the society ? The war with the tiny neighboring island represents Englands rivalry between Whigs（ 輝 格黨） and Tories（托利派）. 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 ? The voyage to Laputa is a s

27、cathing（尖刻 的） attack upon science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and reveals Swifts contempt and disdain for abstract theory and ideology（思想） that is not of practical service to human. 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 ? The final voyage reveals Swifts ultimate satiric

28、objectmans inability to come to terms with his true nature. The Yahoos as a satiric representation of debased(品質惡 劣的) humanity, while taking the Houyhnhnms as representatives of Swifts ideals of rationality and order. 本文檔所提供的信息僅供參考之用，不能作為科學依據(jù)，請勿模仿。文檔如有不 當之處，請聯(lián)系本人或網(wǎng)站刪除。 ? Swift is one of the greatest writers of satiric prose. No reader of his can escape being impressed by the great simplicity, directness and vigor of his style. ? Seldom is there ornament or singularity of any kind. His simplicities, more often than not, as a camouflage for insidious intentions, for big serious