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1.Nguyễn Thị Lệ Hằng
2.Đặng Hồng Như Linh
3. Trần Văn Trưởng
4.Lê Thị Thu
5. Dương Thị Trinh
6. Phạm Thị Phương Trinh

Writer: Jonathan Swift

Novel: Gulliver's Travels

Table of
I. Introduction
content

II. Jonathan Swift'sfamily 's life
III. Jonathan Swift'sfamily 's
IV. Summary “Gulliver's
works
Travels”
V. Play a game
VI. Feedback
VII. Conclusion
VIII. References

I. Introduction:

When we mention foreign literature, we can't miss the
most famous novels in the world. The novels of timeless
value. Nowadays, English literature is a major that attracts
many people, especially the students. When we talk about
England, we can't skip English great writer, Jonathan Swift
, he is a great writer and journalist in England with the
timeless novels. They still make their mark in the hearts of
the audiences through the famous novel “Gulliver's
Travels”

Jonathan Swift (born Jonathan
Swift, 1667–1745) is a famous
English
and
Irish
writer,
philosopher, journalist and writer.
He was remembered by his
contemporaries as the author of
shrewd pamphlets that exposed
the evils of society and defended
the national interest.

Gulliver's Travels, original title Travels into
Several Remote Nations of the World,
four-part satirical work by Anglo-Irish
author Jonathan Swift,
published
anonymously in 1726 as Travels into
Several Remote Nations of the World. A
keystone of English literature, it is one of
the books that contributed to the
emergence of the novel as a literary form
in English. A parody of the then popular
travel
narrative, Gulliver's
Travels combines adventure with savage 
satire, mocking English customs and the
politics of the day.

II. Jonathan Swift 's family life:
Civil war broke out in Ireland after King James II was deposed
(1686), Swift went to England for a few years. Here Swift is
secretary to Sir William Temple. During this time, Swift fell
deeply in love with Esther Johnson - an orphan girl taught by
Swift and it seems that the two were secretly married.

IV.Jonathan Swift's famous works:
Anglo-Irish poet, satirist, essayist, and political
pamphleteer Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin,
Ireland. He spent much of his early adult life in
England before returning to Dublin to serve as
Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin for the
last 30 years of his life. It was this later stage
when he would write most of his greatest
works. Best known as the author of A Modest
Proposal (1729), Gulliver's Travels (1726),
and A Tale Of A Tub (1704), Swift is widely
acknowledged as the greatest prose satirist in
the history of English literature

IV.Jonathan Swift's famous works:
Swift's poetry has a relationship either by
interconnections with, or by reactions against,
the poetry of his contemporaries and
predecessors. He was probably influenced, in
particular, by the Restoration writers 
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester and Samuel
Butler (who shared Swift's penchant for
octosyllabic verse). He may have picked up
pointers from the Renaissance poets 
John Donne and Sir Philip Sidney. Beside these
minor borrowings of his contemporaries, his
debts are almost negligible. In the Augustan
Age, an era which did not necessarily value
originality above other virtues, his poetic

IV.Jonathan Swift's famous works:
In reading Swift's poems, one is first impressed with their apparent
spareness of allusion and poetic device. Anyone can tell that a particular
poem is powerful or tender or vital or fierce, but literary criticism seems
inadequate to explain why. A few recent critics have carefully studied his
use of allusion and image, but with only partial success. It still seems
justified to conclude that Swift's straightforward poetic style seldom calls
for close analysis, his allusions seldom bring a whole literary past back to
life, and his images are not very interesting in themselves. In general,
Swift's verses read faster than John Dryden's or Alexander Pope's, with
much less ornamentation and masked wit. He apparently intends to sweep
the reader along by the logic of the argument to the several conclusions
he puts forth. He seems to expect that the reader will appreciate the
implications of the argument as a whole, after one full and rapid reading.
For Swift's readers, the couplet will not revolve slowly upon itself,
exhibiting intricate patterns and fixing complex relationships between
fictive worlds and contemporary life.

IV.Jonathan Swift's famous works:
A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor
People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or
Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick,[1]
 commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a 
Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously
by Jonathan Swift in 1729.
The essay suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease
their economic troubles by selling their children as food to
rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocked
heartless attitudes towards the poor, predominantly Irish
Catholic (i.e., "Papists")[2] as well as British policy towards the
Irish in general.
In English writing, the phrase "a modest proposal" is now
conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.

IV.Jonathan Swift's famous works:
Swift's essay is widely held to be one of the greatest
examples of sustained irony in the history of the
English language. Much of its shock value derives
from the fact that the first portion of the essay
describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so
that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of
Swift's solution when he states: "A young healthy
child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious
nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed,
roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it
will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout."[
1

IV.Jonathan Swift's famous works:

Gulliver's Travels overview
Gulliver's Travels is a four-part prose travelogue, narrated by the
fictitious persona of Lemuel Gulliver, who tells the story of his
extensive global voyages, the places he has been and the people
(and other creatures) he met. The satire was first published in 1726
under the title Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World 'By
Lemuel Gulliver'.
'Gulliver' announces, in a letter prefixed to the novel, that he has only
allowed his story to be published under great pressure, and he denies
any suggestion that it is 'a mere fiction out of mine own brain'. In this
preface he also issues several corrections and clarifications to the
narrative we are about to read. Gulliver carries this fussiness over into
his assessment of the various cultures and individuals he becomes
acquainted with on his travels.

IV.Jonathan Swift's famous works:
Gulliver's travels take him to Lilliput, an island on a miniature scale
where he appears as huge as a giant; Brobdingnag, where everything
and everyone is enormous, and Gulliver is comparatively minuscule;
the flying island of Laputa, inhabited by philosophers; the kingdom of
Balnibarbi, full of obsessive scientists; the island of Glubbdubdrib,
where a magician enables him to speak with the ghosts of important
figures from antiquity and the modern world; Luggnagg, where he
meets the immortal (and deeply unhappy) Struldbrugs; and finally the
Country of the Houyhnhnms, a race of highly intelligent, refined talking
horses, who rule over a brutish race of humanoid beasts known as
Yahoos

IV.Jonathan Swift's famous works:

Gulliver is so depressed by humanity's resemblance to the Yahoos
that after he returns home from his final voyage he becomes a
recluse. Barely able to go near his own wife and family, he is
convinced that human beings are nothing more than 'a lump of
deformity and diseases both in body and mind, smitten with pride'.
Swift's book is a satirical commentary on his own society's
fascination with travel and exploration – riffing, in particular, on the
pious optimism of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, which had
been published seven years earlier – but it also fantastically
magnifies, diminishes, twists and inverts many 'ordinary' features of
human life, in ways that are ultimately hilarious, scathing and
remarkably humane.

Summary “Gulliver's Travels

Game: Who's faster ?
Question 1 Who wrote Gullier's Travels?

a. Jonathan Swift
b. William Shakespeare
c. Ernest Hemingway

Question 2 When was Jonathan Swift born?

a. 1676
b. 1667
c. 1767

Question 3 What's Jonathan Swift job?

a. a writer, a biologist, a journalist
b. a writer, a political journalist
c. a writer, a political journalist, a philosopher

Question 4
When was Gulliver's Travels published?

a. 1726
b. 1729
c. 1704

Question 5
When was a Tale of a Tub published?

a. 1726
b. 1729
c. 1704

Question 6
Who did Jonathan Swift fall in love?

a. An orphan girl taught by Swift
b. Ester Johnson
c. Both a and b are correct

Question 7
What's the main points in Gulliver's Travels?
a. use satire to critique the political systems
b. make a person aware of his/her country's
politics, religion, and cultural norms and values
c. satirise and parody the poor quality and
standard of writing at the beginning of the
eighteenth century, religion in its diverse forms

Question 8
What's Gulliver's Travels about?
a.  religious extremism. It tells of three brothers,Peter,
who represents the Roman Catholic church; Jack,who
represents the extreme Protestants, and Martin, who
represents the Anglican church.

b  a London surgeon named Lemuel Gulliver who voyages
to mysterious new lands

c.

a young hero and heroine whose families, the Montagues
and the Capulets, respectively, are ferocious enemies.

VIII. Feedback:
Gulliver's Travels is very clever in its satire and a reader can't help
but admire its wit and imagination. But, like Voltaire's Candide,
this aspect to the story may have lost its relevance over time and
may only endure in general terms. Coupled with the fact that it is
not the most engrossing read, it reminded us of Don Quixote in that
our admiration for the skill of its satire was almost matched by the
effort that we had to make to keep reading it.

IX. Conclusion
On the one hand Swift's satire would indicate that human
beings- the civilized Yahoos that is- deserve Gulliver's scorn
because his experiences and new found knowledge have
opened his eyes to the evils of a world controlled by passion
and pride. But there is another plane on which Gulliver
himself is scrutinized with as much care and severity as he has
used in scrutinizing the follies of the world; and the
perspectives here can only be gained through a total
understanding of Swift's most skillful satiric device irony.

X. References
- Nguyễn Chí Trung, English Literature, NXB Giáo dục,
2002.
- Books in the library
- The social network: Google

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