Reading Report of Gulliver’s Travel 格利佛游记读后感
Reading Report of Gulliver’s Travel
The novel talks about the hero, Gulliver’s four times voyages. My reading report as follows:
First, Gulliver traveled firstly to Lilliput, where the human being only about 15 centimeters. The Lilliputian has enemies at home and abroad. The king set up unreasonable law to order Lilliputians break the eggs at the smaller end. He did not feel grateful to Gulliver who had saved his country. Instead, he and his lords plotted to kill Gulliver; because Gulliver refused to help they make Blefuscu a province of Lilliput.
In Gulliver’s second voyage, on the contrary, it is a land of giants. Gulliver was taken good cared of in this country. When Gulliver talked about his country, the king thought the people in Europe is cruel, jealousy, dishonest and mad. He was not happy about learning of the use of guns and cannons.
I think it is a sharp contrast between the two countries. In Lilliput, the people are small but very vicious, immoral and unreasonable. It is the dark side of human nature. Maybe that is the reasons for author depicted them as little men. In Brobdingnag, the people were kind, honest and love peace. They represented the bright side of human nature. So they were giants.
It is also a satire to the government according to the
