第一篇：Gulliver
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift-an English writer is also one of the classic works in the 18th century, but also is Jonathan Swift's brilliant, satirical adventure, even is a novel that anyone who has an imagination would find entertaining and appealing.Jonathan Swift was born in Ireland, but his parents are English.He has written many books such as A Tale of A Tub and The Battle of Books, respectively criticizes and attacks the corruption of religion and prejudice of scholar authority.His Drapier’s letters reveals the attempt of England to destroy the economy of Ireland.For this reason, English government awarded 300pounds for catching Swift.However, nobody in Ireland betrayed him.Swift died in 1745, and he said in his testament that he would give all his property to the charity.As is known to us all, the novel which is told in the first person-Lemuel Gulliver himself, a ship’ doctor portrays Gulliver met extraordinary adventures and saw a strange assortment of people.It is the part of this novel I appreciate most that a number of interesting things happened about Gulliver in a land of giant where he is exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs and the story of his choice to escape eventually.Leaving Lilliput, he set sail and met a fierce storm again.This time he found a land which was a country named Broadingnag.It was a country of giants.You can guess his whereabouts.The huge people treated him as a pet.They put him on show and give speech, till he was tired out.Later he was sent to the Queen, the Queen liked him very much and had him dine with her everyday.But life was not easy for him.Nevertheless, something interesting happened.When he wanted to read, he had to climb up on the book and walk from left to right to read a line.Imagine that scene I couldn’t help laughing.Another story is playing the piano.He had to strike the keys hard with his first.In the land of giants, Gulliver needn’t worry about what he wore and what he ate.In addition, a servant gave service to Gulliver in any aspects of his life.What’s more, he could see the empress and won the queen’s favorite.This is the life many people in the pursuit of.However, Gulliver tried every means of escaping from the land of giants to seek the free and unrestrained voyage life.Gulliver was a young man who was fond of taking a risk everywhere in the world.Therefore, he was unwilling to stay in this land throughout his life like people’s pets.In terms of Gulliver, freedom has transcended his precious life, so has all the creatures in the nature.We think it is so well we get along with the nature most probably but it does not actually happen.For instance, we limit the plants’ growing with flowerpots;we confine the birds’ hovering freely with birdcages;we shackle the cats’ or dogs’ running with chains.It is obvious that these creatures lose their freedom.Without liberty, can we be happy? People usually peer at the birdcages, saying:“The birds are actually happy.Every day they need not seek for what they eat and what they drink and need singing for people only.But people do not hear sorrow of the birds which lost freedom when they are singing.Gulliver lived in the imperial palace comfortably, but he was unwilling to bring happiness to people as a bird locked in a cage singing in a sad sound, even he did not want to realize he dream in a limited range.What he needed is freedom.He liked fought with fierce wind and mountainous waves.Nevertheless, in my opinion, I only see the vivid portrayal and the interesting imagination.Maybe it’s because it’s the first time I read the story and know not so much about the background and situation of the author and his society, but the story really impresses me.I like the exotic experience of Gulliver, and I like Swifer’s imagination.A masterpiece which can influence generation after generation surely has its reason, maybe for the profound understanding of history, maybe for the description of people’s life.This novel may have something to do with sarcasm, but to me, at least by now, is a pure fantasy and a wonderful fairy tale.I also look forward to the day when our society can be like the Hui from country to country, as the children's eyes no longer have doubts about, education and the reality is unified.I would like for this effort, I hope you will join, from what I start, start from the side so that the society a little more sincere and less hypocritical
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第二篇：Gulliver 英文读后感
Gulliver’s TravelWhen I first read this book,I think it is just likes the novel Robinson Crusoe.But when I open the book,read the preface of book I find it's a fairy tales of an ironic novel.The color of the fairy is only the surface of local.The author through the description of the four love adventure Gulliver travel around the world, recognizing the characteristics of Britain at the time.People's greed, the party is divided, hypocrisy, without faith, brutal, anger, craziness, resentment, jealousy, lust, sinister and ambitions.He describes the beast sarcastic man upside of weird phenomenon.Horses become rational representative,but people become greed bewilders second-class animals.He talks about the person's nature that people are willing to be subjected to money, extravagant waste and greed.In the book, the hero so dislikes it.Reading between the lines of the book an the author of the social discontents.In addition, I envy Gulliver came to the country called Hui yin.In this country ,he had a wonderful time.Thier country will not appear evil words,like lying and cheating，people don't have to think about what they mean.There is honest，kind and merciful people only.Gulliver fully assimilated into the this beautiful society.The country called Hui yin is our pursuit for the place.Here we do not have to worry about real society don't want to see things.As by smooth talk deceive others hard-earned kill people to set fire, drug trafficking smuggling, brutal crazy.Here only happiness and joy.So much so that when they leave the hero with sorrow and shed tears.And we'll see the real world,Our teacher and elders from the education we vigilant, don't be deceived.But it is difficult to help others,love others unity.When we meet the people in trouble,we hesitate whether to rise out of hand.When people help us, we are scared to accept their help.The author of this social satire,let us dare not to love, also miss the love of others.Travelling adult countries and small states story is weird.One of the most interesting questions about Gullivers Travels is whether the Houyhnhnms represent an ideal of rationality or whether on the other hand they are the butt of Swift's satire.In other words, in Book IV, is Swift poking fun at the talking
horses or does he intend for us to take them seriously as the proper way to act? 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.Finish seeing Gulliver's travels after that, we have to look at ourselves,whether we have the problem of the inferior root shadow.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 Houyhnhm who, having just been born, exclaims, “With this sort of entrance, what must I expect from the rest of my life!” Our society, though not as Britain at that time that fall, but were not much better.So a murky waters of the society, is to depend on us to clarify.Although we can't make the now what magnificent and victorious things, but can do we can do.country called Hui yin only an ideal society, but we can try to its development.One day, the children's eyes no longer have doubts and anxiety.The ideal and the reality is unified.I wish to pay, starts from me, from now on, let the society more sunshine, less pollution.
第三篇：Gulliver读后感
Gulliver's travels mainly tells the adventures taken by Gulliver in four kingdoms.Gulliver had travelled Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Luputa and Houyhnhnms.This novel was written sharply with fertile imagionation.Jonathan Swift, the author of the novel ,was a famous satires master.Although Gulliver's tavels is for a long time regarded as children's book, it has sharp irony to the parliamentary politics and reactionary religious forces.The novel is not only a reflection of the social reality of Britain at that time, but also the portrailture of various humanity.The part of the novel in the book is about the experiences in Houyhnhnms.The author described it as where is the ideal region which we pursue and yearned for.In Houyhnhnms, the author created the horse which was pure, noble, wise and sincere.But humans were called Yahoos which were dity, contemptible and greedy.The horse controled the kingdom and led it to be a really beautiful and wonderful land that Gulliver was unwilling to leave.Houyhnhnms might be an ideal society in the author's mind.He described various bad behaviors of Yahoos, whichironies the real persons.The novel was written in hundreds of years ago, but the humanity just as which the book told us, hasn't changed for those many years.People now still chase wealth and fame by every possible even mean way.Yahoos could hurt each others by their sharp claws, while the so-called civilized state can use weapons of mass destruction to attack the others.After reading the book, we every one should examinate ourselves that if we can get rid of bad habits.We can take care of those little things in life.Although the Houyhnhnms society are still far away from us, there are also many virtuous people trying hard to help the world.We couldn't give up hopes.
第四篇：Gulliver英文读后感
Gulliver's Travel
钟旭萍 英语2010-1班 2010444810
After reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, I soon started a new book named Gulliver’s Travel.They have something in common but also differ from each other.Gulliver’s Travel is a recall of my childhood.I do remember I would listen to part of Gulliver’s Travel before falling asleep when I was in my childhood.The story goes like this:
When Lemuel Gulliver sets off from London on a sea voyage, little does he know the many incredible and unbelievable misadventures awaiting him.Shipwrecked at sea and nearly drowned, he washes ashore upon an exotic island called Lilliput-where the people are only six inches tall.Next he visits a land of incredible giants called Brobdingnagians.They are more than sixty feet tall.He travels to Laputa, a city that floats in the sky, and to Glubbdubdrib, the Island of Sorcerers.His final voyage brings him into contact with the Yahoos-abrutish race of subhunmans-and an intelligent and virtuous race of horse, the Houyhnhnms.From the brief introduction, I am sure that you may have the idea like that it just a simple novel which is quite convenient tool to help children fall asleep.It is really an interesting novel which can easily catch our attention at the first sight.However, the true theme of this novel was so critical.It made a shape comment on the England government.In Lilliput, even though the people are in a mini shape, they are really hardworking and clever.Gulliver was moved by them and helped them a lot.However, Gulliver’s kindness didn’t pay back.Instead, he was misunderstood by the people in Lilliput.As a result, Gulliver was forced to leave that country.In the Brobdingnagians, Gulliver was just a little kid to them because he was too short among them.In that case, Gulliver suffered from lacking confidence.He cannot do what he did in Lilliput because he thought he was not strong enough to help them.But when traveling in the Houyhnhnms, Gulliver was surprised by them.The people there only cared about music and never took others into consideration
This three main part of the novel described a quite uncommon world which is so different from the real world.It seemed that it just drew a picture of a world in memory.Therefore, some of us will take it as a funny story.If we just take it as a short humorous story, Gulliver’s Travel makes no sense.It is absolutely written to criticize the England Government.The author obvious showed his own unsatisfactory through the book Gulliver’s Travel.It actually wrote about the darkness of the government, the useless competition between the parties, and the war against France.However, as for me, I still prefer taking the book as a common novel which brings me a lot of happiness.While reading, I was deeply impressed by the words the author used to describe the people, the land, and the environment.From this novel, I learned a lot.In daily life, we may face a lot of conflicts when playing with friends, talking with family.The best way to solve the problem is to communicate with each other, and try to trust other.Moreover, we may meet different people in the world.We should also be respect for them.This is what I learned about Gulliver’s Travel.
第五篇：book review of gulliver 格列佛游记读书笔记
商英1201 王丹 1207090138 Book Review Of Gulliver’s Travels For most of us, Gulliver’s Travels is not a strange work.Once as a child, I was amazed at the adventurous stories of Gulliver, and it also made me contemplating at the same time.Now I finally realize that this work is not simply a fantasy fiction, but a satire.Written in the early 16th century by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels narrates the four fantastic journeys of Lemuel Gulliver, a practical-minded Englishman trained as a surgeon who takes to the seas when his business fails.Through the deadpan first-person narrative that narrating the adventures befalling him on the journeys, Jonathan Swift creates several imaginary countries, tries to find a ideal type of society, and satirize the European governments directly or indirectly, explore human nature at the same time.At the very begging of his voyage to Lilliput, Gulliver starts to narrate in satire--“This resolution perhaps may appear very bold and dangerous, and I am confident would not be imitated by any prince in Europe.”
In the later chapters, Gulliver learns about Lilliputian culture, and the great difference in size between him and the Lilliputians is emphasized by a number of examples, many of which are explicit satires of British government.For instance, Lilliputian government officials are chosen by their skill at rope-dancing, which the Lilliputians see as relevant but which Gulliver recognizes as arbitrary and ridiculous.The would-be officials are almost literally forced to jump through hoops in order to qualify for their positions.Clearly, Swift intends for us to understand this episode as a satire of England’s system of political appointments and to infer that England’s system is similarly arbitrary.Then Gulliver is asked to help defend Lilliput against Blefuscu.Despite the fact that the history of the conflict between Lilliput and Blefuscu is blatantly ridiculous, Gulliver reports it with complete seriousness.The more serious the tone, the more laughable this conflict appears.But Swift expects us to understand immediately that the entire history Gulliver relates parallels European history exactly, down to the smallest details.The High-Heels and the Low-Heels correspond to the Whigs and Tories of English politics.Lilliput and Blefuscu represent England and France.The violent conflict between Big-Endians and Little-Endians represents the Protestant Reformation and the centuries of warfare between Catholics and Protestants.Throughout much of Part 1, Swift satirizes European practices by implicitly comparing them to outrageous Lilliputian customs.In Chapter VI, however, Gulliver describes a number of unusual Lilliputian customs that he presents as reasonable and sensible.This chapter, which describes improvements that could be made in European society, is less satirical and ironic than the previous chapters.We may infer that Swift approves of many of these institutions.Clearly, there is a good case to be made for treating fraud as a more serious crime than theft and for making false testimony a capital crime.The very fabric of society depends upon trust, so dishonesty may be even more damaging than theft and violence.In general, the customs of Lilliput that Swift presents as good are those that contribute to the good of the community or the nation as opposed to those that promote individual rights or freedoms.Ingratitude is punishable by death, for instance, because anybody who would treat a benefactor badly must be an enemy to all mankind.Children are raised by the community rather than by their parents because parents are thinking only of their own appetites when they conceive children.Children are raised in public nurseries, but parents are financially penalized if they burden society by bringing children for whom they cannot pay into the world.I still remember the policy of raising children in Lilliput.Since the first time I read it, it had caught me into contemplating.In Chinese culture, children should be grateful and submissive to their parents who give them lives.And as we all know, Hsiao ethic(filial piety)is a important part of Chinese culture.But in Lilliput, it reverses.Children are not responsible for their parents since their birth are not out of their own will, but their parents’ sex desire.This thought changed my thinking pattern as a child and it is more reasonable to me.In Part 4, the fourth voyage of Gulliver's Travels is easily read as an attack on the human species because of the clear satire regarding the Yahoos.However, a careful reading suggests that the author is just as satirical toward Gulliver and the Houyhnhnms as he is toward the Yahoos, but it is surely more subtle, therefore misconceptions arise on the meaning of Gulliver's encounter with the Yahoos and the Houyhnhnms.Gulliver remains true to his gullible nature as he seems unable to see the negative aspects of the Houyhnhnms rational philosophy to life, therefore a reader must be more conscientious to see that Gulliver's idealized view of the Houyhnhnms logical approach to life is not shared by Swift.Up to this point in the story, it has been effortless and easy to see Gulliver's point of view as being always consistent with Swift's but this is not the case.The primary purpose of the fourth voyage is to reveal the crude barbarian traits of humanity.Swift divides man into his animal side, in the Yahoos, and into his logical side, in the Houyhnhnms.By showing how each acts when separated, the hidden attributes are highlighted.The animal, instinctual, and primitive components of human nature that we generally prefer to ignore are called concentrated on.This distasteful manifestation is further more described with deliberately offensive language used.He is a self-hating, self-proclaimed Yahoo at the end, announcing his misanthropy quite loudly, but even this attitude is difficult to accept as the moral of the story.Gulliver is not a figure with whom we identify but, rather, part of the array of personalities and behaviors about which we must make judgments.
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