班级：英语1班学号：姓名：Gulliver’s TravelsBy Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift (1667-1745) , the author of Gulliver’s Travels .He was born in Dublin, Ireland on 30 November 1667, second child and only son of Jonathan Swift1 . And he was compelled to accept aid from relatives, who gave it grudgingly. In 1726, he wrote and published his greatest satiric work, Gulliver's Travels. Swift was a man of great moral integrity and social charm. He had many friends in the literary circle and was also admired and loved by many of the distinguished men of his time. A man with a bitter life experience, he had a deep hatred for all the rich oppressors and a deep sympathy for all the poor and oppressed. His understanding of human nature is profound. In his opinion, human nature is seriously and permanently flawed. To better human life, enlightenment is needed, but to redress it is very hard. So, in his writings, although he intends not to condemn but to reform and improve human nature and human institutions, there is often an under—or over tone of helplessness and indignation.Swift is a master satirist. His satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful. Swift is one of the greatest masters of English prose. He is almost unsurpassed in the writing of simple, direct, precise prose. He defined a good style as "proper words in proper places." Clear, simple, concrete diction, uncomplicated sentence structure, economy and conciseness of language mark all his writings essays, poems and novels.The book begins with a short preamble in which Lemuel Gulliver, in the style of books of the time, gives a brief outline of his life and history before his voyages. He enjoys traveling, although it is that love of travel that is his downfall.During his first voyage, Gulliver is washed ashore after a shipwreck and finds himself a prisoner of a race of tiny people, less than 6 inches tall, who are inhabitants of the island country of Lilliput. After giving assurances of his good behavior, he is given a residence in Lilliput and becomes a favorite of the court.When the sailing ship Adventure is blown off course by storms and forced to put in to land for want of fresh water, Gulliver is abandoned by his companions and found by a farmer who is 72 feet tall (the scale of Brobdingnag is about 12:1, compared to Lilliput's 1:12, judging from Gulliver estimating a man's step being 10 yards.)A V oyage to Laputa , Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan, After Gulliver's ship is attacked by pirates, he is marooned close to a desolate rocky island, near India. Fortunately he is rescued by the flying island of Laputa, a kingdom devoted to the arts of music and mathematics but unable to use them for practical ends.A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms，A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms, Gulliver becomes a member of a horse's household, and comes to both admire and emulate the Houyhnhnms and their lifestyle, rejecting his fellow humans as merely Yahoos endowed with some semblance of reason which they only use to exacerbate and add to the vices Nature gave them.Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726, Jonathan's first big dive into prose. Though it's been pretty solidly labeled a children's book, it's also a great satire of the times that is pretty much beyond most children. It shows Jonathan's desire to encourage people to read deeper and not take things for granted: readers who paid attention could match all of Gulliver's tall tales with current events and long-term societal problems. From this story, we can see the author’s deep though for the human society. The authors used the irony to write the absurd and bizarre plot, profoundly reflects the meaningless partisan struggle of British Parliament at that time, the fatuity and corrupt of ruling clique, and criticized the cruel colonial war. At the same time, in a certain extent, it praises of the colonial people against the ruler of the struggle. After reading the book, I can see that these four different places reflect the complex and ugly of human society .Swift was intensely critical of his time, its rational thinking ,its corrupt institutions, and its social evil and injustice in general. To ourselves in the little thing of our society , 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. If everyone keep their good side in the society all the time, the society will be more better. This work of Swift is not only a children’s book, but also a great work for people to rethink profoundly for their life, their society and theirselves. Maybe the human beings is intolerable and terrible in Swift’s book, but so it does, we need the book to urge us .。