格列佛游记读后感英文版

1、.my opinions on gulliver s 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 sailingadventure gulliver,four degrees travelaround the world,has experiencedlarge and small, thrilling and interesting adve

2、nture.this entry mainly includes the introduction for the author jonathanswift and his writing background. as well as the various characters ingulliverstravelscharacteranalysisand what the author wants to expressthrough the characterin the story.also writethe styleof the works andthe authorswritings

3、tyle.finallyi talkedabout my ownviews 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textrecently i

4、 read a novel called“ gullivers travels. as far as iam concerned,itisaveryfantasticbookanditgivespeopleanadventurous feeling toread the novel.before i read the novel,i reallydidn t know anything about the author of this novel. but after i haveread the novel,ilearnedthattheauthorof thisnovel isjonath

5、an swift,who was born in 1667. according to what i learned from the book,jonathan swift was brought up by his uncle.oneofthemost interestingquestionsaboutgulliverstravelsiswhetherthehouyhnhnmsrepresentanidealofrationalityorwhetheronthe otherhandtheyarethebuttofswiftssatire.inotherwords,inbookiv,issw

6、iftpokingfunatthetalkinghorsesordoesheintendforustotakethemseriouslyastheproperwaytoact?ifwelookcloselyatthewaythatthehouyhnhnmsact,wecanseethatinfactswiftdoesnottakethem;.seriously:heusesthemtoshowthedangersofpride.firstwehavetoseethatswiftdoesnoteventakegulliverseriously.forinstance,hisnamesoundsm

7、uchlikegullible,whichsuggeststhathe willbelieveanything.also,whenhefirstseestheyahoosandtheythrowexcrementonhim,herespondsbydoingthesameinreturnuntiltheyrunaway.hesays,imustneedsdiscoversomemorerationalbeing,eventhoughasahumanheisalreadythemostrationalbeingthereis.thisiswhyswiftreferstoerasmusdarwin

8、sdiscoveryoftheoriginofthespeciesandthevoyageofthebeagle-toshowhowgulliverknowsthatpeopleareatthetopofthefoodchain.butiflemulegulliverissatirized,soarethehouyhnhnms,whosevoicessoundlikethecallofcastrati.theywalkontwolegsinsteadoffour,andseem tobemuchlikepeople.asgulliversays,itwaswiththeutmostastoni

9、shmentthatiwitnessedthesecreaturesplayingthefluteanddancingavienesewaltz.tomymind,theyseemedlikethegreatesthumanseverseenincourt,evenmoredextrousthanthelordedmundburke .asthisquotedemonstrates,gulliveristerriblyimpressed,buthisadmirationforthehouyhnhnms isshort-livedbecausetheyaresoprideful.forinsta

10、nce,theleaderofthehouyhnhnmsclaimsthathehasreadalltheworksofcharlesdickens,andthathecansinglehandedlyrecitethenames ofallthekingsandqueensofenglanduptogeorgeii.swiftsubtlyshowsthatthishouyhnhnmsprideismisplacedwhen,inthemiddleoftheintellectualcompetition,heforgetsthenameofqueenelizabethshusband.swif

11、tssatireofthehouyhnhnmscomesoutinotherwaysaswell.oneofthemostmemorablescenesiswhenthedapplegreymareattemptstowoothehorsethatguenivrehasbroughtwithhimtotheisland.firstsheactsflirtatiously,paradingaroundthebewilderedhorse.butwhenthisdoesnothavethedesiredeffect,shegetsanotheridea:asiwatchedinamazementf

12、rommyperchinthetopofatree,thesorrelnagdashedoffandreturnedwithayahooonherbackwhowas yetmoremonstrousthanmr.popebeingfittedbyaclothier.shedroppedthiscreaturebeforemynagasifofferingupasacrifice.myhorsesniffedthecreatureandturnedaway.itmightseemthatweshouldtakethissceneseriously;.asafailedattemptatcour

13、tship,andthatconsequentlyweshouldseethegreymareasanunrequitedlover.butitmakesmoresenseifweseethatswiftisbeingsatirichere:itisthefemalehouyhnhnmwhomakesthemove,whichwouldnothavehappenedineighteenth-centuryengland.thehouyhnhmisbeingprideful,anditisthatpridethatmakeshimunabletoimpressgullivershorse.gul

14、liverimaginesthehorsesaying,sblood,thenotionofcreatingthebarebackedbeastwithananimalwhohadheldmr.popeonherbackmakesmequeezy .throughoutgulliverstravels,thehouyhnhmsareshown tobeanidealgonewrong.thoughtheirintentmighthavebeengood,theydontknowhowtodowhattheywanttodobecausetheyarefilledwithpride.theymi

15、sleadgulliverandtheyevenmisleadthemselves.thesatireonthemisparticularlywellexplainedbythenewbornhouyhnhmwho,havingjustbeenborn,exclaims,withthissortofentrance,whatmustiexpectfromtherestofmylife!.inmy opinion,thereisa certainconnectionbetweenthebackgroundof the noveland the social conditions. take th

16、is novel for example;thebackgroundofthe novelisbased on thesocialrealityinenglandof that time.if i have the chance, i would like to be a man like gulliver, becausei amgreatlyinspired by hiscouragement and brave.gulliveristhe person,who travels the lands of lilliput, brobdingnag, laputa and the count

17、ryof the houyhnhnms. i think he must have experiencedmuchduringthe voyages.these four voyages brought new future to gulliver s life.the first voyage is to lilliput. people of the lands of lilliput arevery small, it seems like the ant to us, and so gulliver in the place isvery big. the local people r

18、egard him as a monster. from the chapter ofthe novel, we can learn that people of lilliput are of great kindness ingiving gulliver food and drink. while he was eating, they had prepareda platform to carry him to the capital city. the people of lilliput，known as the lilliputians，are very intelligent

19、and clever with theirhandsfive hundred men built a special wooden platform with twentytwo wheels nine hundred ofthe strongestmenworked forabout threehoursto lifthim on tothe platform ，and one thousand fivehundred o f the kingslargest horses （ each eleven and a half centimeters high）pulled him tothec

20、apital but he has experienced much, notonly happy thingsbutalsounhappy things.as a readerof thisnovel,ican imaginehow excitinghowexciting 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 m

21、an in lilliput, because people inbrobdingnag are very big, all of them are giants. gulliver is clever toe please the king and the queen with his intelligence in music. in myopinion, gulliver is patriotic for he argued with the king, because theking laughed at his country. in gullivers mind, his coun

22、try is veryharmonious,people are honest and brave. no one can criticizehiscountry.i admire him for this characteristic.the third voyage is to laputa. from the chapter, i can learn laputansare certainlystrange people. theirheads always turneithertorightorleft ：one of their eyes turns inwards，the othe

23、r upwardstheir maininterestsare music and mathematics they spend so muchtimethinkingabutmathematical problems that they do not notice what is happening aroundthemas far as i am concerned, their life must be very boring, becausethey have nothing to do except thinking about mathematical problems.the l

24、astvoyage is to houyhnhnme.i thinkthecountry is veryinteresting,because it is controlled by horses. at first, the two horses helpedgulliver to drive away animals. then, the horses led gulliver to theirhouse. their house is very different from gullivers house; it has nofurnitureand isvery low. unlikepreviousexperience,thistimegulliverhad to learn how to learn their language. it is very difficult to learnanother language in a short time. so gulliver only had learned a littleof their language. honestly speaking, i want to live in houyhnhnme,because in this country which had no