Topic Discussion:Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English.Briefly discuss why Jonathan Swift is a master satirist based on his greatest novel Gulliver’s Travels.
Topic Discussion:Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English.Briefly discuss why Jonathan Swift is a master satirist based on his greatest novel Gulliver’s Travels.
【正确答案】:

A. THIS BOOK DEALS WITH ONE PARTICULAR VOYAGE IN WHICH GULLIVER MEETS WITH SOME ADVENTURES ON REMOTE ISLANDS. THE FIRST PART TELLS ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE IN LILLIPUT WHERE THE INHABITANTS ARE SIX INCHES TALL, TWELVE TIMES SMALLER THAN THE NORMAL PEOPLE AND ALL THE THINGS THEY HAVE OR SAY OR DO ARE MINIATURES OF WHAT IS IN THE REAL WORLD.
B. IN THE SECOND PART, GULLIVER IS LEFT ALONE IN BROBDINGNAG WHERE PEOPLE ARE NOT ONLY TEN TIMES TALLER AND LARGER THAN ORDINARY PEOPLE, BUT SUPERIOR IN WISDOM.
C. THE THIRD PART DEALS WITH HIS VISIT TO THE FLYING ISLAND, WHERE THE PHILOSOPHERS AND PROJECTORS DEVOTE THEIR TIME AND ENERGY TO THE STUDY OF ABSURD PROBLEMS.
D. THE LAST PART IS AN INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF HIS DISCOVERIES IN THE HOUYHNHNM LAND, WHERE HORSES ARE ENDOWED WITH REASON AND ALL GOOD AND QUALITIES, AND ARE THE GOVERNING CLASS. THERE HE IS SHOCKED AND DISGUSTED TO MEET THE YAHOOS WHO RESEMBLE HUMAN BEINGS NOT ONLY IN APPEARANCE BUT ALSO IN ALMOST EVERY OTHER WAY.
E. THE BOOK IS ONE OF THE EFFECTIVE AND DEVASTATING CRITICISMS AND SATIRES OF ALL ASPECTS IN THE ENGLISH AND EUROPEAN LIFE—SOCIALLY, POLITICALLY, RELIGIOUSLY, PHILOSOPHICALLY, SCIENTIFICALLY, AND MORALLY. ITS SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE IS GREAT AND ITS EXPLORATION INTO HUMAN NATURE PROFOUND.


【题目解析】:A.这本书讲述了格列弗在一次特殊的航行中,在某个遥远岛屿上所经历的冒险。第一部分讲述了他在利力浦特(小人国)的经历,那里的居民有六英寸高,比普通人小十二倍,他们所有的东西、所说的或所做的都是真实世界的缩影。B.第二部分,格列弗被单独留在布罗卜丁奈格(大人国),那里的人不仅比普通人高十倍,而且智慧超群。C.第三部分是他对飞岛国的访问,在那里哲学家和放映员投入了他们的时间和精力来研究荒谬的问题。D.最后一部分是关于他在慧骃国发现的一些有趣事情的叙述,在那里马被赋予理性和所有的好和品质,是统治阶级。在那里,他对见到耶胡感到震惊和厌恶,他们不仅在外表上,而且在几乎所有其他方面都与人类相似。E.这本书是对英国和欧洲生活的各个方面——社会、政治、宗教、哲学、科学和道德——进行的有效的、毁灭性的批评和讽刺之一。它的社会意义是巨大的,对人性的探索是深刻的。
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