Araby主题PPT教学课件

1、 The narrator recalls a boyhood crush he had on the sister of a friend. He went to Araby, a bazaar with an exotic Oriental theme, in order to buy a souvenir for the object of his crush. However, he was finally overcome with a sense of futility.Araby第1页/共14页Themes of Araby Alienation and Loneliness C

2、hange and Transformation Fantasy and Reality The Frustration and Vanity of Love Awakening the spiritually insensitive and morally paralyzed people第2页/共14页Alienation and Loneliness A deserted, isolated living environment Being isolated within his family isolating him from his friends confronting his

3、disillusionment alone in the nearly deserted bazaar第3页/共14页Change and Transformation his romantic fantasies are hopelessly at odds with the reality of his life He realizes that he had set himself up for disillusionment第4页/共14页Change and Transformation an emotional transformation-changing from an inn

4、ocent young boy to a disillusioned adolescent第5页/共14页Fantasy and RealityThe boy carries his thoughts of Mangans sister like a chalice through a throng of foes, and his crush inspires in him strange prayers and praises. The way the girl herself is described as an alluring but untouchable figure drama

5、tically lit-and the boys worshipful attitude give her something of the character of a religious statue.第6页/共14页Fantasy and Reality Popular culture is also suggested as a source of the boys romanticism, in the references to Sir Walter Scotts The Abbot and the poem The Arabs Farewell to His Steed. 第7页

6、/共14页Fantasy and Reality In the nearly deserted hall and the insipid flirtation he overhears between two men and a shopgirl, the protagonist is confronted with huge gap between his romantic fantasies of love and the mundane and materialistic realities of his life.第8页/共14页Fantasy and Reality romantic

7、 idealism of his attitude toward Mangans sister and romantic fantasies in the surrounding culture the Araby bazaar-the mundane and materialistic realities of his life第9页/共14页The Frustration and Vanity of Love He indirectly learns an important lesson about love and how it is exploited in the real wor

8、ld for the benefit of consumerism What could have been a story of happy, youthful love becomes a tragic story of defeat and disappointment第10页/共14页Big theme The love for that girl stands for his passion of life The lost idealization also equals the missing of the vitality and the vigor The epiphany of those spiritually insensitive and morally paralyzed will bring hope for the young and the whole country第11页/共14页Big theme awakening the spiritua