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【正文】 s incipient mental deterioration (he suffered from an innerear disorder which led contemporaries, and Swift himself, to question his sanity). Most famously, William Thackeray described it as filthy in word, filthy in thought, furious, raging and obscene although he did live in a more prudish time (1853). Thank you for learning 。s reason may have turned. Others argue that Swift39。s household, and es to both admire and emulate the Houyhnhnms and their lifestyle, rejecting human beings as merely Yahoos endowed with some semblance of reason which they only use to exacerbate and add to the vices Nature gave them. However, an Assembly of the Houyhnhnms rules that Gulliver, a Yahoo with some semblance of reason, is a danger to their civilization and he is expelled. He is then rescued, against his will, by a Portuguese ship that returns him to his home in England. However, he is unable to reconcile himself to living among Yahoos。s method of throwing rocks at rebellious surface cities also seems the first time that aerial bombardment was conceived as a method of warfare. Gulliver is then taken to Balnibarbi to await a Dutch trader who can take him on to Japan and thence to England. While there, he tours the country as the guest of a lowranking courtier and sees the ruin brought about by blind pursuit of science without practical results in a satire on the Royal Society and its experiments. He also encounters the struldbrugs, unfortunates who are immortal and very, very old. He travels to a magician39。s observations on the Court of Lilliput, which is intended to satirize the court of then King Gee I. After he assists the Lilliputians to subdue their neighbours the Blefuscudans (by stealing their fleet) but refuses to reduce the country to a province of Lilliput. After he assists the Lilliputians to subdue their neighbours the Blefuscudans (by stealing their fleet) but refuses to reduce the country to a province of Lilliput. This sparked off displeasure from the King and the court. He is charged with treason and sentenced to be blinded. Fortunately, with the tip off and assistance from a kind friend, Gulliver escapes to Blefuscu, from whence he spots and retrieves an abandoned boat and sails out to be rescued by a passing ship which takes him back home. The feuding between the Lilliputians and the Blefuscudans is meant to represent the feuding countries of England and France, but the reason for the war is meant to satirize the feud between Catholics and Protestants, primarily the Lollards who challenged transubstantiation of the Catholic Church with consubstantiation. [edit] Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag Gulliver Exhibited to the Brobdingnag Farmer by Richard Redgrave W
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