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【正文】 s point is that the basic difference between humans and the Yahoos is largely artifice. However, no definite answer is forthing from the text, and critics have argued this point for years. It is interesting that this fourth voyage seems to have most engaged literary critics over the years. Some readers chose to see it as proof of Swift39。s dwelling and discusses history with the ghosts of historical figures, the most obvious restatement of the ancients versus moderns theme in the book. The trip is otherwise reasonably free of incident and Gulliver returns home, determined to stay there for the rest of his days. [edit] Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms Despite his earlier intention of remaining at home, Gulliver returns to sea where his crew was captured by Dutch and Japanese pirates in order to force them to bee pirates also. He is abandoned in a landing boat and es first upon a race of (apparently) hideous deformed creatures to which he conceives a violent antipathy. Shortly thereafter he meets a horse and es to understand that the horses (in their language Houyhnhnm or the perfection of nature) are the rulers and the deformed creatures (Yahoos) are human beings in their basest form. Gulliver bees a member of the horse39。s narrative with the disingenuous title Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, its authorship assigned only to Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, then a captain of several ships. Different editions contain different versions of the prefatory material which are basically the same as forewords in modern books. The book proper then is divided into four parts, which are as follows. [edit] Part I: A Voyage To Lilliput Mural depicting Gulliver surrounded by citizens of Lilliput. The book begins with a short preamble in which Gulliver, in the style of books of the time, gives a brief outline of his life and history prior to his voyages. He enjoys travelling. This turns out to be fortunate. On his first voyage, Gulliver is washed ashore after a shipwreck and awakes to find himself a prisoner of a race of sixinch (15 cm) tall people, inhabitants of the neighbouring and rival countries of Lilliput and Blefuscu. After giving assurances of his good behaviour he is given a residence in Lilliput and bees a favourite of the court. There follow Gulliver39。s death, Swift goes back to Ireland. In 1701 Swift39。s classics. Jonathan Swift (16671745) ? Gulliver travels to four extraordinary places. In the first, people are five or six inches tall, in the second, sixty or seventy feet. The third is a kind of satellite inhabited by absurdly impractical scientists, and the fourth is a country governed by horses who treat humans as filthy animals
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