• "Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old." is a famous quotation taken from Gulliver's Travels.
- এটি Jonathan Swift রচিত satirical novel - "Gulliver's Travels" একটি উক্তি।
- তাঁর এই উক্তির মাধ্যমে মানব প্রকৃতির এক মৌলিক দ্বন্দ্ব তুলে ধরেছেন: মানুষ দীর্ঘায়ু কামনা করে, কিন্তু বার্ধক্যের দুর্বলতা, রোগ-শোক ও সামাজিক অবহেলাকে ভয় পায়।
- উপন্যাসের তৃতীয় খণ্ডে (Part III: A Voyage to Laputa) Gulliver যখন Luggnagg দ্বীপে যান, তখন তিনি অমর কিন্তু চিরবার্ধক্যগ্রস্ত এক মানবগোষ্ঠী Struldbrugs- এর সন্ধান পান। তাদের করুণ অবস্থা দেখে গালিভার অমরত্বের আকাঙ্ক্ষা থেকে চিরতরে নিরাশ হন।
• Gulliver’s Travels:
- Also known as: “Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World”.
- 'Gulliver's Travels' is a famous satire of the 18th century.
- এটি ৪ খন্ডের একটি রম্য রচনা।
- এই novel টি ১৭২৬ সালে প্রকাশিত হয়।
- Gulliver’s Travels combines adventure with savage satire, mocking English customs and the politics of the day.
• ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ এর চারটি খন্ড:
- A Voyage to Lilliput,
- A Voyage to Brobdingnag,
- A Voyage to Balnibarbi,
- A Voyage to the Country of Houyhnhnms.
• Important characters:
- Lemuel Gulliver,
- Blefuscudian.
- Yahoos.
- Houyhnhnms,
- Lilliputians,
- Laputans.
• Famous quotations:
- I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
- I told him that we had a sort of people among us who pretended to believe nothing at all, and that these were called skeptics.
- Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.
- Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
- The different nations of the world had different customs.
- I winked at my own littleness, as people do at their own faults.
- The use of speech was to make us understand one another, and to receive information of facts.
- You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator.
- No person can disobey reason without giving up his claim to be a rational creature.
- Laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them.
- I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals.
- A wife should always be a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young.
- Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.
- Men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent as when they are at stool.
Source:
1. Britannica.
2. Goodreads.com