格列佛游记的讽刺艺术.docVIP

【标题】?格列佛游记的讽刺艺术 【作者】任 睿 【关键词】英国文学???斯威夫特??象征主义??讽刺技巧 【指导老师】白 敏 【专业】英语教育 【正文】1. Introduction1.1 Background? The eighteenth century in English literature was an age of prose, not because the poetry of that time was bad, but because the prose was better especially with the rise and development of the Enlightenment in Great Britain?.On the base of the Enlightenment, writers continued to develop the literature to a new literary movement, which is the Sentimentalism.?“As the result of a bitter discontent with social reality among the enlighteners, the representatives of sentimentalism continue to struggle against feudalism but they sensed at the same time the contradictions in the process of capitalist development.”9 Some talented sentimentalism writers soon went into the sight of person. Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift,Henry Fielding,Richard Bransley Sheridan are the representatives of sentimentalism?.Among them Jonathan Swift is the greatest one.1.2 Jonathan Swift? Jonathan Swift?(1667-1745) was born in Ireland in 1667.His father died before he was born. His mother was poor, and he was compelled to accept aid from relatives. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1704, his two works were published,A Tale of Tub and The Battle of Books, which criticized the corruption in religion and field of learning. They made Swift a well-known satirist. Then his articles against the war directly influenced on the signing of treaty between Britain and France. So he became the most important figure in London?.The lords either in Whigs or Tories, which were the two kind of party in Great Britain in the 18th century, tried every possible way to flatter and court him. However, the circumstances did not keep so long. One year later the Tories went out of power, Swift was driven out from England and returned to Ireland. In Ireland, he was active in the combat of Ireland fighting for freedom and independence. In 1776, an important year, his best known and immortal literary work?–G