GULLIVER’S TRAVELS

FILL THE GAPS

Some similarities between Gulliver’s travels and Robinson Crusoe are

+ they are adventurous

+ they are practical-minded and reason-controlled
+ they rarely show any deep emotion
+ they are the first narrators
+Both works were written in the age of Enlightenment
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Jonathan Swift is considered …

One of the greatest masters of English prose and one of the most impassioned
satirists of human folly and pretension
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Lemuel Gulliver is …

A practical-minded Englishman trained as a surgeon who takes to the seas when

his business fails
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Setting of the excerpt

Time: after staying for sometime in the country of Lilliput, Gulliver gained so far
on the emperor and his court with his gentleness and good behavior
Place: in the court of Lilliput
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As a form of fiction, Gulliver’s travels is … and its literary genre is …

The greatest satire by the greatest prose satirist in the English language - satire
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What is the message of Gulliver’s travels ?

The fact that Gulliver simply secedes(rút ra khỏi) from human society upon the
conclusion of the story implies that there is plainly no hope for human society and
that human nature is so corrupt and malevolent (hiểm ác ) that there is no
possibility of reformation (sự cải cách)
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After staying in England with his wife and family for … , Gulliver undertakes his
… sea voyage which takes him to Brobdingnag.

Two months - next ( second)

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By the war between Lilliput and Blefuscu, Jonathan Swift satirizes …

That the two neighboring empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu with their foolish causes
which are differences on how to break egg for the frequent conflicts and wars
between them hint at England and France
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In Lilliput, the ministers are often required to perform in diversions to make sure
that …

They have not lost their faculty

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Gulliver’s rejection of human society is showed in the fact that …

In the fourth voyage, he shuns the generous Don Pedro as a vulgar Yahoo. He
concludes his narrative with a claim that the lands he has visited belong by rights
to England, even though he questions the whole idea of colonialism.
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By the two diversions that Gulliver observes in Lilliput the writer satirizes …
The small mind of Lilliput’s Emperor and the way English people get the high
positions in the court not by intellectual quality but by performing some physical
skills and especially by going on all fours.
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Gulliver wants to stay with the Houyhnhnms, but he is banished because …

He is very much like a Yahoo

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The diversion of rope dancing and jumping is dangerous, as shown in the fact that
…

It is often attended with fatal accidents

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Why do the chief ministers in Lilliput often have to perform in diversions?

The chief ministers themselves are commanded to show their skills and to
convince the emperor that they have not lost their faculty.
They want to have great employments and high favour of the emperor at court.
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The rope dancing and jumping is dangerous because …

It is often attended with fatal accidents

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Gulliver’s experiences with various flawed societies foreshadow ........

His ultimate rejection of human society in the fourth voyage

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Gulliver becomes a national resource of Lilliput by …

Helping Lilliput to defeat Blefuscu

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The first winner of the stick leaping and creeping is rewarded with … which he
uses to put around his belt as a symbol of …

Blue coloured silk - the high position in the court

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The land below Laputa is called …., whose scientific researches are …

Balnibarbi - totally insane and impractical

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Gulliver’s travels has managed to survive as two books in one: one is … , the other
is …

A fanciful children’s tale - a trenchant( rõ ràng, sắc bén) satire of the fallacies of
human nature
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Lemuel Gulliver arrives in Lilliput on his … voyage after …

First - a shipwreck and awakes to find himself a prisoner of a race of 6-inch tall
people
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The Luggnaggians and the Struldbrug are …

Senile( suy yếu, già) immorals

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On his fourth journey, Gulliver arrived in a land populated by Houyhnhnms, who

… and by Yahoos, who …

Rational-thinking horses - are ugly-looking human being

Or are the master of the country - are the servants of the country
Or rule - serve the Houyhnhnms
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The emperor of Lilliput had a mind one day to entertain in Gulliver with several of
country shows because …

He thinks that those diversions are something intellectual and the most amusing.
He is very proud of these diversions.

WRITE A PARAGRAPH (at least 120 words)

Question: Travel broadens the mind. Do you agree?