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1、青岛科技大学本科毕业论文IntroductionJonathanSwift(1667-1745)wasagreatIrishsatirist,poet,politicalpamphleteerandwriter.Comingfromafamilywhichhadseveralinterestingliteraryconnections,JonathanSwiftwaswell-educated.JonathanSwiftwrotehisownepitaphwhichWilliamButlerYeatpoeticallytrans
2、lateditfromtheLatinas:Swifthassailedintohisrest;SavageindignationthereCannotlaceratehisbreast.Imitatehimifyoudare,World-besottedtraveler;heServedhumanliberty.Fromthisepitaph,itisnothardtohaveageneralunderstandingofJonathanSwift’swholelife.Heheldthebeliefhiswholelifet
3、hateachmanisborntobeequalandshouldhavetheirfreedom,whichwasshowedwidelyinhismasterpieces.JonathanSwiftisprobablytheforemostprosesatiristintheEnglishlanguage,andislesswellknownforhispoetry.Heiswell-knownformanyworkssuchasAModestProposal,AJournaltoStella,TheBattleofthe
4、Books,Gulliver’sTravels,AnArgumentAgainstAbolishingChristianityandATaleofaTub.ThemostfamousisGulliver’sTravels(1726,amended1735)whichdescribesLemuelGulliver’stravelsintoseveralremotenationsoftheworld,infourparts(Lilliput、Brobdingnag、Laputa、Houyhnhnms).Theprotagonisti
5、sLemuelGulliver,firstasurgeon,andthenacaptainofseveralships.Thisbookbecamepopularassoonasitwaspublished.Gulliver’sTravelsservesasabitingsatirewhichisbothhumorousandcritical,constantlyattackingBritishandEuropeansocietythroughitsdescriptionsofimaginarycountries.Gullive
6、r’sTravelshasbeentherecipientofseveraldesignations:fromMenippeansatiretoachildren’sstory,fromProto-ScenceFictontoaforerunnerof17青岛科技大学本科毕业论文themodernnovel.Ithasgreatsocialsignificance,suchasasatiricalviewofthestateofEuropeangovernmentandofpettydifferencesbetweenrelig
7、ions;aninquiryintowhethermenareinherentlycorruptorwhethertheybecomecorruptedandarestatementoftheolderargument”ancientsversusmoderns”controversypreviouslyaddressedbyJonathanSwiftinTheBattleoftheBooks.SatireisaliterarygenreofGreekorigin(satyr),inwhichhumanfollyandvicea
8、rehelduptoscorn,derision,orridicule.Althoughsatireisusuallymeanttobefunny,itspurposeisoftenironyorsarcasm,ideallywiththeintentofsha
