高级英语第二册第二课Marrakech课件

1、2021/6/71 Marrakech by George Orwell 2021/6/72 2021/6/73 Biography Orwells press card portrait, taken in 1933 Born Eric Arthur Blair 25 June 1903 Motihari, Bihar, British India Died 21 January 1950 (aged 46) Camden, London, England R e s t i n g place Sutton Courtenay,Oxfordshire Pen nameGeorge Orwe

2、ll, John Freeman Occupation Novelist, political writer and journalist NationalityBritish N o t a b l e work(s) Homage to Catalonia (1938) Animal Farm (1945) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) essays Spouse(s) Eileen OShaughnessy(19351945, her death) Sonia Brownell (19491950, his death) 2021/6/74 l George O

3、rwell was the pseudonym(笔名） of Eric Arthur Blair (1903-50), an English writer who at one time served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma（缅甸）. He fought in the Spanish Civil War, an experience he recorded in Homage to Catalonia. l George Orwells life is short, but his with keen insight and sharp

4、 style of writing survey and record his life by the era, made many beyond the prophecies（预言） of the era, is called “generation the coldness of conscience”. 2021/6/75 Works l 1931 行刑行刑（A Hanging） l1933 巴黎伦敦落魄记（巴黎伦敦落魄记（Down And OutI In Paris And London） l1934 在缅甸的日子在缅甸的日子（Burmese Days） l1935 牧师的女儿牧师的女

5、儿（A Clergymans Daughter） l1936 让叶兰在风中飞舞让叶兰在风中飞舞（Keep The Aspidistra Flying） l1938 向加泰罗尼亚致敬向加泰罗尼亚致敬（Homage to Catalonia） l1939 上来透口气上来透口气（Coming Up For Air） l1940 鲸鱼之中鲸鱼之中（Inside the Whale） l1941 狮子与独角兽狮子与独角兽（The Lion and The Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius） l1945 民族主义的基本特征民族主义的基本特征（Notes o

6、n Nationalism）、）、动物动物 庄园庄园（Animal Farm） l1946 穷人之死穷人之死（How the Poor Die） l1949 甘地的思考甘地的思考（Reflections on Gandhi） l1950 猎象猎象（Shooting An Elephant）一九八四一九八四（Nineteen Eighty-Four） 2021/6/76 2021/6/77 A political fable Each animal represents a certain human character, meant to criticize Stalins socialism

7、. A short novel that criticizes the Soviet Union, one of Englands allies in World War II . It is an entertaining story about animals or, on a deeper level, a savage（野蛮的，残酷的） attack on the misuse of political power. 2021/6/78 2021/6/79 l An English novel about life in a dictatorship （专政）as lived by W

8、inston Smith. l An intellectual worker at the Ministry of Truth, and his degradation（退化，堕落） when he runs afoul of（与冲突） the totalitarian (极权主义的 ) government of Oceania (大洋洲), the state in which he lives in the year that he presumes（假定，推 测） is 1984. 2021/6/710 lthe master of a superb（华丽的,宏伟的） lucid (清晰的) prose style. lan uncompromising（不妥协的，坚定的） individualist and political idealist lfamous for his political satires（讽刺诗） lOrwell argued that writers have an obligation of fighting social injustice, oppression（镇压,压 迫）and the power of total