作者mjspchen82 (搶救二一大作戰!)
看板NDMC-D62
標題[公告] the modest proposal
時間Tue Jan 11 11:45:29 2005
本論文對喬納森‧斯威夫特的作品《一個溫和的建議》中反語的運用進行分析研究。反語
是一種極具抨擊性的修辭手法,它可以產生非常強烈的諷刺效果。喬納森‧斯威夫特是18
世紀英國傑出的諷刺大師,《一個溫和的建議》是其代表作,奠定了他在英國文學史上的
不朽地位。
在《一個溫和的建議》中,“獻策者”提出了一個尖酸、諷刺、恐怖並且十分
血腥的建議 —— 把愛爾蘭的嬰兒當作一種美食提供給英國統治階級,以此解決愛爾
蘭當時的貧窮與饑荒問題。在讀完該文後,面對鮮明的諷刺,讀者幾乎無法冷靜地接受
這慘無人道的建議。斯威夫特巧妙精煉地運用反語,充分展現出了愛爾蘭農民悲慘的境
地與英國統治階級令人髮指的壓迫,給讀者勾勒出了一幅鮮血淋漓的畫面,讀者由此產
生強烈的共鳴。尖刻的反語在斯威夫特的筆下鋒芒畢露,成為抨擊當時英國統治階級強
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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