格列佛游记英文短篇读后感

第一篇：格列佛游记英文读后感

gulliver's travel格列佛游记英文读后感（原创，人格保证）

"when bending my eyes downward as much as i could, i perceived a human not six inches high!" i haven't read this book since i read it as a child, and it was amazing how much of it had stuck with me, and how vividly. gulliver's travels is one of the most exciting adventures novels.

i like reading the adventure stories ,and i read many books,but gulliver's travels is one of the most exciting fantasy adventures ever written. gulliver's travels are broken up into four parts. the first two parts are the most famous, where gulliver visits is a land in which he is a giant and another in which it is filled with giants。

when lemuel gulliver sets off from london on a sea voyage, little does he know the many incredible and unbelievable misadventures awaiting him. shipwrecked at sea and nearly drowned, he washes ashore upon an exotic island called lilliput-where the people are only six inches tall! next he visits a land of incredible giants called brobdingnagians. they are more than sixty feet tall! he travels to laputa, a city that floats in the sky, and to glubbdubdrib, the island of sorcerers. his final voyage brings him into contact with the yahoos-a brutish race of subhumans-and an intelligent and virtuous race of horse, the houyhnhnms.

after i have read this book，i admire for gulliver's wisdom , courage and spirit taking risks very much，he is a man different from the rest. as soon as he see the sea ,he could not keep his impetuous of adventure. as a doctor，he often took the travelling ship to everywhere.thought that the crew sees a doctor for the excuse to travle around the world and everywhere risk.

this is the spirit being bold in making innovations. by the gulliver's travels ,the writer not only satirized the united kingdom system at that time ，but also made a hero who like taking risks.we should learn the spirit being bold in making innovations ,don’t afraid of difficulty and dangerous , just like gulliver.

i have been enchanted when reading this book . seem to be that i and he adventure together. and i admired him for his resourceful and brave .

第二篇：《格列佛游记》英文读后感

one of the most interesting questions about gullivers travels is whether the houyhnhnms represent an ideal of rationality or whether on the other hand they are the butt of swift's satire. in other words, in book iv, is swift poking fun at the talking horses or does he intend for us to take them seriously as the proper way to act? if we look closely at the way that the houyhnhnms act, we can see that in fact swift does not take them seriously: he uses them to show the dangers of pride.

first we have to see that swift does not even take gullver seriously. for instance, his name sounds much like gullible, which suggests that he will believe anything. also, when he first sees the yahoos an ……此处隐藏3352个字……deadly poison or something like that. all in all, anyone who has been unluckily sentenced death by those doctors will soon die.

“they are likewise of special use to husbands and wives who are grown weary of their mates, to eldest sons, to great ministers of state, and often to princes.” in this sentence, here “they” refer to those death-like doctors. with the special help of them, people with some evil thoughts can achieve what they desperately expect. very cleverly, by criticizing the doctors’ immorality, swift also satirizes the social ills like disloyalty between couples, betrayals among brothers and offices.

iii. chief ministers

in the next paragraph, swift turns his sharp nib to the chief ministers. those people are so hypocritical and deceptive that they discard all their human feelings, but to chase power, wealth and titles—as swift directly points out. no one can guess their true feelings. here swift uses several antitheses to show their hypocrisy. truth for lie; lie as truth. both praise and deformation are bad omens. what’s more, their promise resembles the curse.

then the author jokingly offers three methods about how to become a chief minister. that’s where the highlight is. “first, by knowing how with prudence to

dispose of a wife, a daughter, or a sister; the second, by betraying or undermining his predecessor; and the third is, by a furious zeal in public assemblies against the corruptions of the court.” shows that only by betrayal, conspiracy and something immoral can one become a chief minister.

“the palace of a ’chief minister’ is a seminary to breed up others in his own trade.” by using metaphor, the author ironically criticizes the english chief ministers, who are dirty and corrupted.

iv. noble persons

last but not least, jonathan swift reveals the true figures of the nobility. the author takes gulliver himself—who is much healthier and cleaner than those yahoos but born the lower class as an example to satire the noble persons. with odious diseases derived from lewd females and terrible personality caused by being spoiled, they regard their unhealthy complexion as grace, and mock those robust persons instead. their twist and reverse values actually reflect the deformed social value system at that time. money worship leads them to marry those they don’t love, even to give birth to malformed children. how ridiculous!

“without the consent of this illustrious body no law can be made, repealed, or altered, and these have the decision of our possessions without appeal.” at the end of the this part, the author again uses irony to mention that all the society is under the control of those both physically and psychologically ill persons, as implicates that the whole society is in the darkness of sickness.

v. conclusion

jonathan swift is a genius in sarcasm. reading his novel—gulliver’s travels, one can find that every page is filled with his sharp sarcasm and irony.