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[영어영문학] 조너선 스위프트(JONATHAN SWIFT) 생애와 작품(영문)에 대한 자료입니다.
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1.Life of Jonathan Swift
2.A characteristics of Gulliver's Travels.
3.Gulliver's Travels plot
4.Major Themes
5.Characters
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Two women
♥ Esther Johnson(Swift’s Stella)
– guess secretly married but nobody knows it.
♥ Hester Vanhomrigh – enigmatic relation
His last years were less happy because of Meniere’s disease ➜ His last years were spent in gloom and lethargy
1. Genre
Satire
- Political situation of England in 17-18th century
and mankind in general.
Adventure
- Gulliver meets lots of strange people
with curious customs and new languages.
Science Fiction
- The progress of an amazing scientific civilization
in this part.
May 4, 1699 ~ April 13, 1702
Lilliputians : six-inch high peoples
Lilliputians seem amiable
→ the ridiculous and petty creatures.
After he assists the Lilliputians to subdue
their neighbors the Blefuscudans
→ he is charged with treason
and sentenced to be blinded.
Fortunately, he found Gulliver-sized boat and
makes his escape.
the ridiculous urge to control
extreme selfishness