格列夫游记PPT(Gulliver's Travells)

Time: early 18th century Persona: Lemuel Gulliver-a Surgeon
Plot: Four Prodigious Travels
1. A Voyage to Lilliput(小人国） 2. A Voyage to Brobdingnag（大人国） 3. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan（拉普达诸岛国） 4. A Voyage to the Country of Houyhnhnms（慧因国）

2. Concerns for the Common Masses
①And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race(part two) ② Hence, it follows of necessity, that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping, forswearing, flattering, suborning, forging, gaming, lying, fawning, hectoring, voting, scribling,, stargazing, poysoning, whoring, canting, libelling, freethinking, and the like occupations…(part four)
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VI.百度文库

1. Satire on the European Government & Social Structure & Religion, Esp. those in Britain. —— The Exercise of Power
Jumping the rope; Heel comparison; Dispute on breaking an egg; War between the Tow Island countries. ——In Lilliput.
Yet malice never was his aim; He lashed the vice but spared the name. No individual could resent, Where thousands equally were meant. His satire points at no defect But what all mortals may correct; For he abhorred that senseless tribe Who call it humor when they gibe. ——Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift (1731)


Modern Greek: Té mpi A Gorge\Valley In northern Thessaly, Greece,


between Olympus to the
north and Ossa to the south.


Celebrated as a favorite haunt of Apollo and the Muses Be home for a time to Aristaeus 13th Century AD, the church Paraskevi was erected Battlefield of Numerous Wars
Gulliver’s Travels(1726)
By Jonathan Swift(1667.11-1745.10)
A cynic & a hater of mankind ?
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world. ——Polite Conversation. Dialogue i
the Rise of Colonization & Economic Exploitation
European Rivalry, esp. French VS. Britain
British Governance in Ireland New-born Constitutional Regime in Britain: Whigs VS. Tories. Enlightenment: John Locke, Thomas Hobbes. Reason and Skepticism-David Hume, Rene Descartes。 Science Revolution: Newton. Galileo VS Christ
French VS. Britain VS. Spain VS. Holland. Protestant VS. Catholic ; Tories VS. Whigs;
(Between the King and Gulliver) Q: These Ministers who run your country, how do they get to be Ministers? A: Well usually it’s a sum of money decides the issue. Q: So how do they gain the knowledge of their people they supposed to serve? A: They don’t need much knowledge. Because they spend well…most their time drinking and gambling. … Q: Why are you always attacking people? A: Well, often we have to defend ourselves by attacking before we’re attacked.


He was perfectly astonished with the historical account I gave him of our affairs during the last century; protecting it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments…(part two) Power, government, war, law, punishment, and a thousand other things, had no terms, wherein that language could express them…(part four)

4. Knowledge Attitude :
① Abstract Theory and Ideology vs. Practical Theory ②Religious Disputes VS. Modern Science
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
4.Back home with a European captain
1.Out for a voyage & accidents
3.Discourse on European Affairs
2.Set on an alien land & learn the language
I. II. III. IV.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. ——The Battle of the Books, preface (1704) Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy. ——A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1707)
——Part Three. Voyage to Laputa.

5. Attitudes towards Non-European World Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe: Savages VS. European Civilians Swift: Degenerated Mankind VS. Rational Horse

3. Inquiry into the Nature of Mankind Yahoos: human-like; vile; ape-like; greedy. VS. Houyhnhnm: reason; order; no idea of unscrupulous concepts of mankind.