精简英国文学教案Week11_英国文学史及选读教案
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Week11 目的：理解批评现实主义以及迪更斯(mirror)1． Realism, a mode of writing that gives the impreion of recording or reflecting faithfully an actual way of life.It is not a direct or simple reproduction of reality(a slice of life)but a system of conventions producing a lifelike illusion of some real world outside the text.The earliest Realist work began to appear in the 18th century, in a reaction to the excees of Romanticism and Neoclaicism.2． WHAT IS THE STRENGTH AND WEEKNESS OF ENGLISH CRITICAL REALISM？ 3．
Three periods of Charles Dickens’ literary career.(英国文学简史)4.Features of Dickens’ novels
A.Dickens’novels offer a most complete and realistic picture of the English bourgeois of his age.B.Dickens is a petty bourgeois intellectual.He could not overstep the limits of his cla.He believed in the moral self-perfection of the wicked propertied claes.He failed to see the neceity of a bitter struggle of the oppreed against their oppreors.C.Almost all his novels have a happy ending.D.His novels tell much of the experiences of his childhood.F.Dickens is a great humorist.His novels are full of humor and laughter.5．Key Facts of Oliver Twist full title · Oliver Twist: The Parish Boy’s Progre
genre · Children’s story;detective story;novel of social protest narrator · Anonymous narrator point of view · The narrator is third person omniscient, and aumes the points of view of various characters in turn.The narrator’s tone is not objective;it is sympathetic to the protagonists and far le so to the novel’s other characters.When dealing with hypocritical or morally objectionable characters, the narrative voice is often ironic or sarcastic.tone · Sentimental, sometimes ironic, hyperbolic, crusading setting(time)· 1830s setting(place)· London and environs;an unnamed smaller English city;the English countryside protagonist · Oliver Twist major conflict · Although Oliver is fundamentally righteous, the social environment in which he is raised encourages thievery and prostitution.Oliver struggles to find his identity and rise above the abject conditions of the lower cla.rising action · Oliver is taken care of by a gang of London thieves, but refuses to participate in their thievery.An upper-cla family takes him in, but the thieves and a mysterious character, Monks, continue to pursue him.climax · Nancy is murdered for disclosing Monks’s plans to Oliver’s guardians.Mr.Brownlow gets the full story of Oliver’s origins from Monks.falling action · Fagin is executed and Sikes dies;Oliver and his new family live out their days in happine.themes · The failures of charity;the folly of individualism;purity in a corrupt city;the countryside idealized motifs · Disguised or mistaken identities;hidden family relationships;surrogate families;Oliver’s face foreshadowing · The truth about Oliver’s parentage is foreshadowed by the portrait in Mr.Brownlow’s house, by the locket that Old Sally has stolen, and by Monks’s pursuit of Oliver.Why did you kill Nancy off? I thought she was a very strong character who was a great aet to the book's moral.(Virginia, aged 11-16 from St Mary's Academy)Nancy is the most complex case, because although she is a prostitute, a member of Fagin抯 gang, and Sikes抯 mistre, she also has virtuous sentiments, which prompt her to defend Oliver and to betray Fagin.But her good qualities also underpin her loyalty to Sikes, and that loyalty is the direct cause of her tragic fate at his hands.According to the novel抯 logic, it is miraculous that Oliver抯 goodne survives in such an environment, whereas it is virtually inevitable that goodne such as Nancy抯 is destroyed.6.Analysis of Major Characters Oliver Twist As the child hero of a melodramatic novel of social protest, Oliver Twist is meant to appeal more to our sentiments than to our literary sensibilities.On many levels, Oliver is not a believable character, because although he is raised in corrupt surroundings, his purity and virtue are absolute.Throughout the novel, Dickens uses Oliver’s character to challenge the Victorian idea that paupers and criminals are already evil at birth, arguing instead that a corrupt environment is the source of vice.At the same time, Oliver’s incorruptibility undermines some of Dickens’s aertions.Oliver is shocked and horrified when he sees the Artful Dodger and Charley Bates pick a stranger’s pocket and again when he is forced to participate in a burglary.Oliver’s moral scruples about the sanctity of property seem inborn in him, just as Dickens’s opponents thought that corruption is inborn in poor people.Furthermore, other pauper children use rough Cockney slang, but Oliver, oddly enough, speaks in proper King’s English.His grammatical fastidiousne is also inexplicable, as Oliver presumably is not well-educated.Even when he is abused and manipulated, Oliver does not become angry or indignant.When Sikes and Crackit force him to aist in a robbery, Oliver merely begs to be allowed to “run away and die in the fields.” Oliver does not present a complex picture of a person torn between good and evil—instead, he is goodne incarnate.Even if we might feel that Dickens’s social criticism would have been more effective if he had focused on a more complex poor character, like the Artful Dodger or Nancy, the audience for whom Dickens was writing might not have been receptive to such a portrayal.Dickens’s Victorian middle-cla readers were likely to hold opinions on the poor that were only a little le extreme than those expreed by Mr.Bumble, the beadle who treats paupers with great cruelty.In fact, Oliver Twist was criticized for portraying thieves and prostitutes at all.Given the strict morals of Dickens’s audience, it may have seemed neceary for him to make Oliver a saintlike figure.Because Oliver appealed to Victorian readers’ sentiments, his story may have stood a better chance of effectively challenging their prejudices.
