The Reaction

             The Reaction To Gulliver's Travels 17334176  吴泽杰 周二三至四节   "Gulliver's Travels" is a story written by a British writer Jonathan Swift.The novel is full of spicy satire ,which is aimed at the corruption and sin of the British ruling class.       Gulliver traveled around the world four times, experiencing great and small adventure.He travelled to the Lilliput the first time because of some accident.And gentle performance of Gulliver gradually won the favor of the king and the people, and he gradually became familiar with the customs of the small country. Later he even help the small country defeated another Lilliput  but refuse to exterminate it.The king wasn't happy and decided to kill him and he ran away.We can see something similar in the British ruling class at that time.The ruling class fought with each other ,which was meaningless.And they framed those who didn't follow them and even killed them.They didn't care about whether you have helped them or not, they only wanted those who can be beneficial to them .And we can find the author's spicy satire.      The second time he travelled to the Brobdingnag  which was full of giant.Because he is a special type in the Brobdingnag, and was received as a small thing in the suitcase, brought to the town to show exhibition.And three years later,because of Gulliver's homesick,he pretended to be sick and came to the seaside to breathe the fresh air.And the eagle took him away. He had the opportunity to leave the Brobdingnag.The king of the Brobdingnag was actually a nice person and he was the symbol of democracy ,freedom and so on.He was opposite to the king of the small country and the ruling class in Britain.He was the one that the author wanted the ruling calss be.The third time he went to the flying island and saw many strange things and strange people .Many ofthem were in a brown study,which was very funny.The author used this story to mock the ruling class's unwisdom and I can see the author laughe at them.I think that most spicy are concentrated here ,Gulliver told some people some silly things that officials in Gulliver's country did,which was actually the officials in British.Gulliver even said that parliament in ancient Rome was so great and full of heroes and gods.But the parliament in Britian in that time  was full of thieves and robbers.I can see the author always praise the farmers in acient Britian,they had much great moral character but now their offsprings sold the moral character at a low price.It was so direct for Gulliver to say that Britain ruling class had so many disadvantages so I really think that Jonathan Swift is a brave author.The fourth country that Gulliver travelled to was houyhnhnms,where there were Yahoos,a kind of animals that looked like human, were ugly, silly and aggressive.Houys,a kind of animals that looked like horse,were good-looking smart and kind.It is such a great contrast that it's easy to know that the author wanted to say that many people at that time were even worse than some animals.It is really a spicy satire and I have to say that it's really a successful story and it really tell us what the author wanted to say.        As far as I am concerned,Gulliver's Travels is really a successful novel and it has its own charm, which tells us that the world has something that needs changing.