JaneAustenPPT课件

1、Lecture Outlinen1.Introduction to Jane Austenn2. Writing Techniquesn3. social customs in Jane Austens timen4. Appreciation: Pride and Prejudice第1页/共38页 她以十分逼真的手法刻画了一些普普通通的、而非出类拔萃的人，他们通过极其普通的谈话和行为举止把自己完全而一致的呈现出来。简奥斯汀的沉静和自制，以及绝妙地用平静的言辞去表达她平静的内容，这些特点，较之于那些热情洋溢、言辞滔滔不绝的伟大作家，同样显示出她的创作天才。-剑桥英国文学史第2页/共38页Li

2、fe A. a country clergymans daughter B. educated at home; C. never married; uneventful life, domestic duties第3页/共38页Jane Austens Novels 1. Northanger Abbey 1818诺桑觉寺2. Sense and Sensibility 1811理智与情感3. Pride and Prejudice 1813傲慢与偏见第4页/共38页Jane Austens Novels 4. Mansfield Park 1814 曼斯菲尔德花园 5. Emma 1816

3、 爱玛 6. Persuasion 1818 劝告第5页/共38页Influence One of the most influential novelists of the early 19th century Famous for her biting (辛辣的) social commentary and masterful use of irony Also the first English women to break the male monopoly of novel writing.第6页/共38页时代背景 Middle class gained social status;

4、 known as landed gentry（地主阶级）Newly acquired wealth and possessions-Profits from Industrial Revolution and expanding colonial systemStrived to align (结盟) themselves with Englands landed aristocracy.Purchased estates and country homes to rival aristocratic mansions乔治三世乔治三世第7页/共38页Her fictional world H

5、er views on the novel: “three or four families in a Country village is the very thing to work on”. three or four landed gentry families in a village with their daily routine life. (calls, walks, picnics, conversations, parties, balls, marriages ) Dances figure prominently in Jane Austens novels. Whe

6、ther performed in public assembly(礼堂) rooms or in private, dances offered social opportunities for young people to mix and mingle and converse in an acceptable fashion 第8页/共38页Characteristics of her Works 1. She drew vivid and realistic pictures of everyday life of the country society in her novels.

7、 2. The themes of her novels often involve love, marriage of the young; their maturity after their loss of visionary.第9页/共38页Characteristics of her Works 3. Jane Austens main concern is about human beings in their personal relations, human beings with their families and neighbors. Stories of love an

8、d marriage provide the framework for all her novels and in them women are always taken as the major characters第10页/共38页Other Features4. Jane Austen is successful in the employment of irony and frequent use of witty and delightful dialogues .第11页/共38页第12页/共38页 奥斯丁以婚姻为主题并采用讽刺、幽默的笔法细致地描绘了18世纪末19世纪初英国乡镇

9、中产阶级的生活景象。 傲慢与偏见就是其中之一。作品中的句法结构和遣词造句颇有特色，主要通过对话来表现人物性格。小说中的人物各自有着不同的说话风格，具有鲜明的个性，如贝内特太太言辞虚浮夸张、大惊小怪、尖声叫嚷，显得格外俗气，她的女儿伊丽莎白则敢于挑战贵族青年达西，表现出对门第的蔑视，并在谈吐中确立起一位聪慧、机智、勇敢和可爱的女性形象。第13页/共38页 小说第1章开篇那句话：“凡是有钱的单身汉总想娶位太太，这已是举世公认的真理”值得回味，点出了作品的意图。本应成为“猎手”的有钱的单身汉却沦为女人们追逐的“猎物”。当贝内特太太获悉邻里新近搬来一位名叫宾利的年轻富家子弟后，再也按捺不住内心的激动，

10、于是与丈夫商讨如何急速拜访这位新来的邻居，希望把某个女儿嫁给他。整个情景在这对夫妇的对话中展开，前后一问一答，把老夫妻各自的性格特征表现得淋漓尽致。小说的第58章是全书的转折点。伊丽莎白得知是达西促成了妹妹莉迪亚和韦恩的亲事后深为感激。于是她改变了对达西的态度。奥斯丁写出了两人消除误会，言归于好后的情感交会。语句结构清晰自然，富有节奏感。第14页/共38页Leading characters第15页/共38页Mr. DarcyDarcy is representative of hereditary (世袭的) aristocracy.Wealthy landowner who does no

11、t have to work for a livingEmploys workers to farm his land, surrounding families depend on his patronage 赞助第16页/共38页Mr.Darcy Rich Educated arrogant conceited 自负的 overbearing专横的,飞扬跋扈的alert, observant considerate第17页/共38页The BingleysBingleys represent the new landed gentryBingleys father acquired wea

12、lth through trade, gave up his business, and moved his family to the countryHe and his sisters are now considered upper class第18页/共38页 Charles Bingleyhandsome, good-natured, and wealthy and more popular than his friend Darcy ,who is more intelligent and wealthier but more arrogantJane BennetElizabet

13、h Bennet第19页/共38页The BennetsBennets own land, but they are a middle-class familyLongbourn House in Hertfordshire 2,000 per yearMust work to cultivate land Few servants and limited financial resources第20页/共38页第21页/共38页uShe is easy to be nervous, philistine (adj. 市侩的), Shallow, an empty-headed, naive

14、woman, and is eager to talk with slight encouragement.uNoisy and foolish, she is a woman consumed (对着迷) by the desire to see her daughters married and seems to care for nothing else in the world.Mrs Bennet 第22页/共38页Five Daughters1. Jane beautiful2. Lizz intelligent3. Mary of deep reflection 4. Kitty

15、 tough 5. Lydia good-humored第23页/共38页第24页/共38页Chapter one It is a truth universally acknowledged , that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Is this a really universally acknowledged truth? How do you interpret the ironic tone in the opening sentence? How closely i

16、s it related with the theme of the novel?第25页/共38页 The sentence begins as though the novel were going to be a great philosophical discourse. “It is a truth universally acknowledged” implies that the novel will deal with great truths, but the second half of the sentence reveals that the great univers

17、al truth is just a common social situation. Thus there is an ironic difference between the formal manner of the statement and the ultimate meaning of the sentence. The “truth” spoken of is that a single man in possession of a fortune must need a wife, whereas in reality the sentence means that a wom

18、an without a fortune needs a man with a fortune for a husband. 第26页/共38页 The first chapter consists almost entirely of a dialogue, a typical instance of Austens technique of using the manner in which characters express themselves to reveal their traits and attitudes. 第27页/共38页第28页/共38页第29页/共38页第30页/

19、共38页第31页/共38页4.Why is Mrs. Bennet eager to marry her daughters? women; second-class citizens. Before marriage, they depended on their father. Under the law of the time, they had no right to inherit the property from their parents, to get a job. After marriage, they had to depend on their husbands. T

20、hat is to say, if Mr. Bennet dies one day, the family estate will pass on to his nearest male relation, a clergyman called Mr. Collins. The daughters would live a poor life. Hence, it is necessary to find men of fortune as their husbands.第32页/共38页Pride and PrejudiceCouplesJane BingleyElizabeth Darcy

21、Lydia Wickham (army officer)Collins (clergyman) Charlotte (Elizabeths best friend)第33页/共38页How does Austen describe the ideas of marriage in Pride and Prejudice? Three of types of marriage:(1) those who marry for money, position and property;(2) those who marry just for passion;(3) those who marry f

22、or love based on consideration of the persons personal merit as well as his economical and social status.第34页/共38页Love True love is a force separate from society and one that can conquer even the most difficult of circumstances.nThrough the marriages of Darcy-Elizabeth and Bingley-Jane, Austen shows the power of love and happiness to overcome class boundaries and prejudices.Themes第35页/共38页 Pride and