作者mjspchen82 (抢救二一大作战!)
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标题[公告] the modest proposal
时间Tue Jan 11 11:45:29 2005
本论文对乔纳森‧斯威夫特的作品《一个温和的建议》中反语的运用进行分析研究。反语
是一种极具抨击性的修辞手法,它可以产生非常强烈的讽刺效果。乔纳森‧斯威夫特是18
世纪英国杰出的讽刺大师,《一个温和的建议》是其代表作,奠定了他在英国文学史上的
不朽地位。
在《一个温和的建议》中,“献策者”提出了一个尖酸、讽刺、恐怖并且十分
血腥的建议 —— 把爱尔兰的婴儿当作一种美食提供给英国统治阶级,以此解决爱尔
兰当时的贫穷与饥荒问题。在读完该文後,面对鲜明的讽刺,读者几乎无法冷静地接受
这惨无人道的建议。斯威夫特巧妙精炼地运用反语,充分展现出了爱尔兰农民悲惨的境
地与英国统治阶级令人发指的压迫,给读者勾勒出了一幅鲜血淋漓的画面,读者由此产
生强烈的共鸣。尖刻的反语在斯威夫特的笔下锋芒毕露,成为抨击当时英国统治阶级强
有力的武器。
This thesis aims at studying the application of irony in Jonathan Swift’s
A Modest Proposal. Irony is a forceful rhetoric device, which can arouse
great satire with fierce condemnation. Jonathan Swift, a great master of
irony in the 18th century of Britain, sets up his “immortal status in the
satiric literature with A Modest Proposal (1)”.
In this proposal, the “projector” comes up with a satiric, horrible and
bloody suggestion --- the sale of the Irish babies as a kind of
delicious food to the upper class to solve the poverty and famine in
Ireland. People are definitely unable to accept the fabulous proposal
calmly after finishing reading this prose. By a proficient application of
irony, Swift has delineated out a distinctive contrast between the suffering
of Irish peasants and the cruel governance of the English ruling class
which make the reader face a bloody fact and share a bitter hatred of
the ruling class. Furthermore, the acrid ironies used by Swift are really
strong weapons to attack the English ruling class in the article.
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