GULLIVER’S TRAVELS Flashcards
Some similarities between Gulliver’s travels and Robinson Crusoe are
+ they are adventurous
+ they are practical-minded and reason-controlled
+ they rarely show any deep emotion
+ they are the first narrators
+Both works were written in the age of Enlightenment
Jonathan Swift is considered …
One of the greatest masters of English prose and one of the most impassioned satirists of human folly and pertension
Lemuel Gulliver is …
A practical-minded Englishman trained as a surgeon who takes to the seas when his business fails
Setting of the excerpt
Time: after staying for sometime in the country of Lilliput, Gulliver gained so far on the emperor and his court with his gentleness and good behavior
Place: in the court of Lilliput
As a form of fiction, Gulliver’s travels is … and its literary genre is …
The greatest satire by the greatest prose satirist in the English language - satire
What is the message of Gulliver’s travels ?
The fact that Gulliver simply secedes(rút ra khỏi) from human society upon the conclusion of the story implies that there is plainly no hope for human society and that human nature is so corrupt and malevolent (hiểm ác ) that there is no possibility of reformation (sự cải cách)
After staying in England with his wife and family for … , Gulliver undertakes his … sea voyage which takes him to Brobdingnag.
Two months - next ( second)
By the war between Lilliput and Blefuscu, Jonathan Swift satirizes …
That the two neighboring empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu with their foolish causes which are differences on how to break egg for the frequent conflicts and wars between them hint at England and France
In Lilliput, the ministers are often required to perform in diversions to make sure that …
They have not lost their faculty
Gulliver’s rejection of human society is showed in the fact that …
In the fourth voyage, he shuns the generous Don Pedro as a vulgar Yahoo. He concludes his narrative with a claim that the lands he has visited belong by rights to England, even though he questions the whole idea of colonialism.
By the two diversions that Gulliver observes in Lilliput the writer satirizes …
The small mind of Lilliput’s Emperor and the way English people get the high positions in the court not by intellectual quality but by performing some physical skills and especially by going on all fours.
Gulliver wants to stay with the Houyhnhnms, but he is banished because …
He is very much like a Yahoo
The diversion of rope dancing and jumping is dangerous, as shown in the fact that …
It is often attended with fatal accidents
Why do the chief ministers in Lilliput often have to perform in diversions?
The chief ministers themselves are commanded to show their skills and to convince the emperor that they have not lost their faculty.
They want to have great employments and high favour of the emperor at court.
The rope dancing and jumping is dangerous because …
It is often attended with fatal accidents
