The great Russian writer Gorky once commented on an Irish novelist, calling him "one of the creators of world literature", he is Jonathan Swift, his masterpiece "Gulliver's Travels" has endured since its inception, and has also been shortlisted for the standard required reading list of my Chinese new curriculum, which shows that the novel "Gulliver's Travels" is also very influential in China. Today, we will enjoy the ten aphorisms in Jonathan Swift's novel "Gulliver's Travels", and experience the deep meaning behind the words and the charm of the novel.
Jonathan Swift was a novelist of the English Enlightenment period, and his achievements are more prominent, most of his works are critical, sympathetic to the hardships of people's lives, with realist characteristics, with a certain historical status. Although Jonathan Swift is not one of the world-class writers, some scholars believe that he is not exactly a novelist, defining him as a "transitional" writer, because his achievements are not only novels, but also poetry and prose, but it cannot be ignored that the ideological connotation and artistic characteristics of Jonathan Swift's novels have made the world literary scene bloom with greater brilliance.
Strictly speaking, the novel Gulliver's Travels is Jonathan Swift's only novel and a work he wrote at his peak. During the creation of the novel, he participated in the Irish rebellion against British colonial rule, and his long social experience and the sharp brushstrokes he had honed over time to create this immortal work at the peak of his creation. It is said that at that time, the novel had just been published, and the citizens rushed to buy it, and it was swept away in one day.
The novel "Gulliver's Travels" is a very distinctive work, the theme imitates the more popular "tramp" novel structure at that time, narrates the thrilling journey of the protagonist Gulliver drifting at sea, and reflects the corruption and evil of the British ruling class in the first half of the 18th century through descriptions of scenes, dialogues and environments. Irony is one of the most distinctive aspects of the novel Gulliver's Travels, and the author Jonathan Swift is one of the most prominent satirical masters of 18th-century literature. He uses a rich and varied counter-grammar, with the help of the protagonist Gulliver's mouth, intuitively or sideways to show the connotation of irony.
In addition, the description of the novel in terms of environment, characters, situations, language, etc. is meticulous and vivid, and the reading process allows readers to have an immersive feeling, while using mapping, anti-language, symbolism, exaggeration, contrast and other techniques to highlight the author's "ambiguous" creative characteristics, and there is a sense of confusion when reading, expanding the reader's imagination space.
It is worth mentioning that Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" inherits the form of satirical novels, reflects the author's satirical master's skills, and at the same time determines the status of realistic novels, and also inherits the tradition and creative development of medieval folk literature, and sets a model of "dystopian", and many later famous artists are deeply influenced by it.
In short, reading this "Gulliver's Travels" is really endlessly evocative, especially those exquisite satirical techniques, it is really amazing, the use of rhetorical methods is even more ingenious, the plot design is amazing, no wonder for more than two hundred years, this novel has endured. Today, we will enjoy the ten aphorisms in the long satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels" by Irish writer Jonathan Swift, and experience the deep meaning behind the words.
Blindness can increase your courage because you can't see any danger. - Gulliver's Travels
Reason only teaches us to affirm or deny what we think is true; we can neither affirm nor deny what we know nothing about. - Gulliver's Travels
Whoever repays virtue with resentment should be the public enemy of mankind, and those who do not know how to repay gratitude are not worthy of living in the world at all. - Gulliver's Travels
If a person has no virtue, they think, then no matter how high the talent is, it is difficult to achieve, and no matter what affairs can be entrusted to such a talented and unscrupulous guy. - Gulliver's Travels
In the appointment of talent, they pay more attention to good character than to excellent talent. - Gulliver's Travels
Without comparison, you can't tell the size. - Gulliver's Travels
Inner strength is irrelevant to appearances. - Gulliver's Travels
According to some kind of thinking, you can know life. - Gulliver's Travels
We are more curious and more self-righteous about the things that have nothing to do with us, the things that are least suitable for our nature or the most unsuitable for our research. - Gulliver's Travels
A brief silence can change the atmosphere of a conversation. - Gulliver's Travels