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Austen’s literary ideology
She considers it her duty to express in her works a discriminated and serious criticism of life, and to expose the follies and illusions of mankind. She shows contemptuous feelings towards snobbery, stupidity, worldliness and vulgarity through subtle satire and irony.
Questions for discussion
How does Byron try to arouse the patriotic feeling of the Greek people?
How do you understand the last stanza? especially the last line.
Jane Austen
The first important English woman novelist
Austen’s life
She was born in a country clergyman’s family and brought up in an intelligent but restricted environment. Her father was a rector and a scholar with a good library. She was educated at home with her sister. She lived a quiet, retired and, in public terms, uneventful life. And her closest companion was her elder sister who, like her, never married.
At the news of the Greek revolt against the Turks, Byron not merely gave the insurgent Greeks financial help but plunged himself into the struggle for the national independence. In 1823, he joined the Greek insurgents. And the Greeks made him commander in chief of their forces in January in 1824. Byron fell ill and died of hard work, and the whole Greek nation mourned over his death.
Her novels:
Sense and Sensibility《理智与情感》 理智与情感》 Pride and Prejudice (the most popular of her novels)《傲慢与偏 novels) 见》 Mansfield Park 《曼斯菲而德公园》 曼斯菲而德公园》 Emma 《爱玛》 爱玛》 Northanger Abbey《诺桑觉寺》 诺桑觉寺》 Persuasion 《劝告》 劝告》
Questions for discussion
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen's original title for the novel was First Impressions. What role do first impressions play in Pride and Prejudice?
He was born into an ancient aristocratic family and at the age of ten, he inherited the title of a baron and a large estate. In 1811, he made vehement speeches, attacking the reactionary policy of the English government. After leaving England in 1816, Byron first went to Switzerland, where he made acquaintance with Shelley.
Give special attention to any two characters in the novel and talk about their attitudes toward marriage.
George Gordon Byron
Byron’s life and his revolutionary career
The main characteristics of Austen’s novels
Austen’s main literary concern is about human beings in their personal relationships. (particularly the relationship between men and women in love) The subject matter, the character range, the social setting, and plots are all restricted to the provincial life of the late 18th-century England. However, she treated this material with subtlety of observation, depth of psychological penetration and delicacy of touch.
Pride and Prejudice
Mr and Mrs Bennet Five daughters: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, Lydia Mr. Bingley Darcy Wickham Mr. Collins Charlotte Lucas Lady Catherine de Bourgh
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Byronic hero was created by Byron in the Romantic period of the English literature. The Byronic hero is characterized by bravery ,hard working spirit and rebellion. Don Juan is the best representative of the Byronic hero.
Which part(s) of the song do you think is (are) the most encouraging ?
Byron’s major works
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 《恰尔德 哈罗德游记》 Don Juan, 《唐·璜 》 Byron’s masterpiece, is a poem based on a traditional Spanish legend of a great lover and seducer of women. Don Juan, a Spanish young man born in a noble family; strange adventures he has experienced (Greece, Turkey, Russia and England);