Gullivers Travels,By Jonathan Swift,Gullivers Travels,Gullivers Travels,Content,Introduction of Jonathan Swift Introduction of Gullivers Travels,Jonathan Swift,Jonathan 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,Gullivers Travels,Born in Dublin, Ireland. Studied at Dublins Trinity College At 19, Swift went to England to serve as a private secretary to Sir William Temple , a powerful English statesman. the editor of the official Tory organ, The Examiner Ordained an Anglican priest of St. Patricks Cathedral, Dublin in 1695. He joined in the struggle of the Irish people against their English oppressors. In 1742 he was declared of unsound mind and memory and died 19 October 1745.,Life Story,Gullivers Travels,Major Works,A Tale of a Tub ( 1704 ). Battle of the Books ( 1704 ). The Abolishing of Christianity ( 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 ).,Gullivers Travels,Swifts Artistic Features,Satire His satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful. Simplicity and Directness Swift is always most unsurpassed in the writing. He defined a good style as “proper words in proper places.”,Gullivers Travels,Comments on Jonathan Swift,1.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.,Gullivers Travels,Literary Position and influence,Swift is one of the greatest masters of English prose. Swift is a master satirist. Swift was a man of great moral integrity and social charm.,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 justly ranked among the best novel of world literature.,Introduction,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,Written in 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.,Plot and Major Characters,The book begins with a very short 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,Gulliver makes our deep-sea voyages, which are described in the four parts of the book.,Lilliput,Laputa,Brobdingnag,Houyhnhnms,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 the 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 all 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.,Appreciation of Chapter four,First 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.,The picture shows that arriving at the island, Gulliver was catched by the Lilliputians, and then sent to the emperor.,Little by little he gets used to their life and gets license to see Mildendo(密尔敦多) ， the metropolis.,And chapter four is about the metropolis: Mildendo.,The first section : about the city The 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.,也就是说密尔敦多这个城市是一个正方形，它的大小大概就是两个足球场。同时它被两条主要街道分为田字形。,The second section : about the emperors palace The palace is in the center of the city and is enclosed by a wall of two feet high. Gulliver discovered it the most splendid apartments that can be imagined.,The third paragraph : tell us the author will give readers a further descriptio