美国文学Moby Dick课件
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自大疯狂的）captain of the Whal名er称，书中爱喝咖啡的大
Pequod.
副就叫Starbuck。
Moby Dick—the great white whale.
whaleship
Starbuck—the first mate（大副）of the Pequod.
Hale Waihona Puke Queequeg（标枪手魁魁格)— Starbuck’s skilled harpooner and Ishmael’s best friend.
白鲸MobyDick作品分析
About The Author
Herman Melville（1819—1891） was an American novelist,short story writer,essayist,and poet.
Although Melville has been regarded throughout most of the twentieth century as one of America’s most powerful literary artists,particularly for his masterpiece Moby-Dick,he was largely unrecognized in his lifetime.
Symbolism
The land The sea The Pequod The voyage Ahab Ahab's Pipe Starbuck The Doubloon Queequeg's Coffin Moby Dick
Land:a symbol f safety
Sea:a symbol of adventure and danger
Pequod.
副就叫Starbuck。
Moby Dick—the great white whale.
whaleship
Starbuck—the first mate（大副）of the Pequod.
Hale Waihona Puke Queequeg（标枪手魁魁格)— Starbuck’s skilled harpooner and Ishmael’s best friend.
白鲸MobyDick作品分析
About The Author
Herman Melville（1819—1891） was an American novelist,short story writer,essayist,and poet.
Although Melville has been regarded throughout most of the twentieth century as one of America’s most powerful literary artists,particularly for his masterpiece Moby-Dick,he was largely unrecognized in his lifetime.
Symbolism
The land The sea The Pequod The voyage Ahab Ahab's Pipe Starbuck The Doubloon Queequeg's Coffin Moby Dick
Land:a symbol f safety
Sea:a symbol of adventure and danger
《美国文学》课件三.ppt
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Anne Bradstreet: "Contemplations (9)"
• Contemplations (9) • I heard the merry grasshopper then sing. • The black-clad cricket (蟋蟀) bear a second part; • They kept one tune and played on the same string, • Seeming to glory in their little art. • Shall creatures abject thus their voices raise • And in their kind resound their Maker's praise, • Whilst I, as mute, can warble (sing in a high voice but not
• Smith says of Pocahontas that she "hazarded the beating out of her owne braines to save mine."
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Captain John Smith: Life experiences
• On September 10, 1608, Smith became president of the council in the colony and orchestrated （organize）such improvements as expanding the settlement around the fort and repairing many buildings.
• His importance is more seen in his Puritanical doctrines; a representative of the idealistic aspect of American Puritanism and an emblem of the Calvinist beliefs and tenets.
Anne Bradstreet: "Contemplations (9)"
• Contemplations (9) • I heard the merry grasshopper then sing. • The black-clad cricket (蟋蟀) bear a second part; • They kept one tune and played on the same string, • Seeming to glory in their little art. • Shall creatures abject thus their voices raise • And in their kind resound their Maker's praise, • Whilst I, as mute, can warble (sing in a high voice but not
• Smith says of Pocahontas that she "hazarded the beating out of her owne braines to save mine."
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Captain John Smith: Life experiences
• On September 10, 1608, Smith became president of the council in the colony and orchestrated （organize）such improvements as expanding the settlement around the fort and repairing many buildings.
• His importance is more seen in his Puritanical doctrines; a representative of the idealistic aspect of American Puritanism and an emblem of the Calvinist beliefs and tenets.
美国文学EmilyDickinson迪金森
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Weird Recluse?
• She would sometimes send her poems to
people as gifts for valentines or birthdays, along with a pie or cookies.
• She often lowered snacks and treats in baskets to neighborhood children from her window, careful never to let them see her face.
• "If fame belonged to me," she told Higginson, "I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase.… My barefoot rank is better." The twentieth century lifted her without doubt to the first rank among poets.
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What’s the Difference?
BECAUSE I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labor, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played, Their lessons scarcely done; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun.
艾米莉狄金森《美国文学》原创PPT课件
interest in Emily ‘s poems
. different nature
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The Homestead
Emily Dickinson lived with her unmarried sister Lavinia in an elegant house called The Homestead(霍姆斯特德).
At the same time , Dickinson is widely acknowledged as an innovative pre-modernist poet as well as a rebellious and courageous woman.
迪金森的诗谜一般充满奇思妙想，展现出非凡的创造力与想象力。她的作品受到17世 纪英格兰玄学派诗人的影响，同时带有清教的家庭背景的烙印。虽然她不相信家庭的传统 宗教，但她研究了圣经，许多诗歌在形式上也类似圣经。她对破折号的热爱，不规则的韵 律和韵脚，超乎寻常的比喻使她当之无愧地成. 为19世纪美国文坛最具创新意识的诗人9。
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Became ill when Emily was 25
Focus of attention and shows Close friend，though they share
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Themes
On Nature
• Dickinson observed nature closely and described it vividly but never with the feeling of being lost in it, or altogether part of it, nor was she surprised when its creatures also kept their distance.
美国文学PPT整理版
Benjamin Franklin the Autobiography 自传•Poor Richard's Almanac 作品A Collection of maxims, or proverbs, on the value of work and savings for success.•Y ou may be happier than princes if you will be more virtuous.•If you would live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.•Lost time is never found again.•A penny saved is a penny earned.•God help those who help themselves.•Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.American Romanticism 看英文•The Romantic Period stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the Civil War. It is a period of the great flowering of American literature. 特征：浪漫主义The social and cultural background of Romanticism•The young Republic was flourishing into a politically, economically and culturally independent country.•The nation felt an urge to have its own literary expression, to make known its new experience that other nations did not have: the early Puritan settlement, the confrontation with the Indians, the frontiersmen’s life, and the wild west.•Born of one common cultural heritage, the American writers shared some common features with the English Romanticists.There was a new emphasis upon the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature. 特征•The Romantic writings revealed unique characteristics of their own in their works and they grew on the native lands.The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature.The American Puritanism as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values.•Foreign influences added incentive to the growth of romanticism in America.Walter Scott; Coleridge; Wordsworth; Byron; Robert Burns and other masters of poetry from other European countries•Washington Irving 华盛顿·欧文•James Fenimore Cooper詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏•William Cullen Bryant威廉·柯伦·布赖恩特•Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生•Henry David Thoreau亨利·戴维·梭罗•Nathaniel Hawthorne 纳撒尼尔·霍桑•Herman Melville赫尔曼·梅尔维尔•Walt Whitman 沃尔特·惠特曼•Edgar Allan Poe埃德加·爱伦·坡•Emily Dickinson艾米莉·狄金森•Romantics frequently shared certain general characteristics: moral enthusiasm, faith in value of individualism and intuitive perception, and a presumption that the natural world was a source of goodness and man’s societies as a source of corruption.特征W ashington Irving华盛顿·欧文Father of American literatu re.Irving’s life•He was one of the first American writers to earn an international reputation, and regarded as an early Romantic writer in the American literary history andThe Sketch Book《见闻札记》Rip V an Winkle 《瑞普·凡·温克尔》The Legend of Sleepy Hollow《睡谷的传说》Edgar Allan Poe 埃德加·爱伦·坡Poet, short story writer and literary critic (48 poems, 70 short stories)•The Raven 《乌鸦》•Annabel Lee《安娜贝尔·李》•T o Helen《致海伦》•The Fall of the House of Usher•Ligeia•The Cask of AmontilladoThe Poetic Principle•The poem, should be short, readable at one sitting•beauty (the rhythmical creation of beauty)•melancholy (especially the death of a beautiful woman)•He greatly influenced the devotees of “Art for art’s sake‖.•He was father of psychoanalytic criticism, and the detective story.Gothic Building/// Gothic NovelRalph Waldo Emerson 艾默生The chief spokesman of New England T ranscendentalism 新英格兰超验主义新英格兰是位于美国大陆东北角、濒临大西洋、毗邻加拿大的区域。
American Literature Lesson 7 Moby Dick and Symbols
* Not required; You don’t have to come.
Review of Last Week’s Quiz
Any questions? Good! You didn’t have a quiz last week.
Quiz Time
No Complaining, please!
Moby Dick
• Plot:
pp. 219-224
–6. Ahab has lost his leg to the White Whale called Moby Dick and he becomes more and more obsessed with killing Moby Dick. –7. Other Characters:
Your Mid-Term Exam is scheduled for:
Tuesday, May 8th @ 2:00 P.M.
Your Mid-Term Exam is scheduled for:
Tuesday, May 8th @ 2:00 P.M. What is going to be on the exam? Anything from our lessons Anything in Volume 1 (Nothing about authors we have not discussed in class) Nothing in Volume 2
American Literature
Spring 2012 Week of April16-20
Lesson 7:
Moby Dick and Symbols
Optional* Film Time:
Moby Dick
Review of Last Week’s Quiz
Any questions? Good! You didn’t have a quiz last week.
Quiz Time
No Complaining, please!
Moby Dick
• Plot:
pp. 219-224
–6. Ahab has lost his leg to the White Whale called Moby Dick and he becomes more and more obsessed with killing Moby Dick. –7. Other Characters:
Your Mid-Term Exam is scheduled for:
Tuesday, May 8th @ 2:00 P.M.
Your Mid-Term Exam is scheduled for:
Tuesday, May 8th @ 2:00 P.M. What is going to be on the exam? Anything from our lessons Anything in Volume 1 (Nothing about authors we have not discussed in class) Nothing in Volume 2
American Literature
Spring 2012 Week of April16-20
Lesson 7:
Moby Dick and Symbols
Optional* Film Time:
Moby Dick
《文学美国文学》PPT课件
因为人类的祖先亚当和夏娃是有罪的),
total depravity(人类是完全堕落的，所以
人要处处小心自己的行为，要尽可能做到
最好以取悦上帝), limited atonement (有
限救赎，只有被上帝选中的人才能得到上
帝的拯救)
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American Puritanism
Features of American Puritan
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2. Early American Puritan Writers
• John Smith, one of the founders of the colony of Jamestown: His descriptions about the new world became the source of information for the later settlers.
Exercise
Colonial period and Revolutionary period Early Romanticism Transcendentalism Late Romanticism
The age of Realism
Irving Franklin Cooper Emerson Hawthorne Twain James Dreiser Melville Thoreau
himself to writing Amh erican subject
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2. Evaluation. (Benjamin Franklin1706 – 1790)
1) He was a rare genius in human history. Everything seems to meet in this one man, mind and will, talent and art, strength and ease, wit and grace, and he became almost everything: a printer, postmaster, citizen, almanac maker, essayist, scientist, inventor, statesman, philosopher, political economist and ambassador.
Emily Dickinson艾米莉·狄金森-美国文学PPT精选文档
我们走过落日旁——
Or rather--He passed Us-The Dews drew quivering and chill-For only Gossamer, my Gown--
My Tippet--only Tulle--
或毋宁说，他走过我们身旁 寒露降，身子冻得打颤—— 因为我的长衫落纱般——
Metaphor(Children、Gazing Grain、Setting Sun)
Anaphora（we passed）
Imagism
Alliteration
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I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died
I heard a Fly buzz - when I died The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air Between the Heaves of Storm –
• He glanced with rapid eyes他锐利的双目a • That hurried all around—四处飞顾b • They looked like frightened Beads, I thought—小眼珠似乎透着害
怕，我自忖道c • He stirred his Velvet Head他抖了抖头顶的羽毛d • • Like one in danger, Cautious,我像人受伤时小心翼翼a • I offered him a Crumb给他投了一些面包屑b • And he unrolled his feathers他张开双翼c • And rowed him softer home—像划着船桨回到家里b •
我已经签好遗嘱——分掉了 我所有可以分掉的 东西—-然后我就看见了 一只苍蝇—-
Or rather--He passed Us-The Dews drew quivering and chill-For only Gossamer, my Gown--
My Tippet--only Tulle--
或毋宁说，他走过我们身旁 寒露降，身子冻得打颤—— 因为我的长衫落纱般——
Metaphor(Children、Gazing Grain、Setting Sun)
Anaphora（we passed）
Imagism
Alliteration
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I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died
I heard a Fly buzz - when I died The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air Between the Heaves of Storm –
• He glanced with rapid eyes他锐利的双目a • That hurried all around—四处飞顾b • They looked like frightened Beads, I thought—小眼珠似乎透着害
怕，我自忖道c • He stirred his Velvet Head他抖了抖头顶的羽毛d • • Like one in danger, Cautious,我像人受伤时小心翼翼a • I offered him a Crumb给他投了一些面包屑b • And he unrolled his feathers他张开双翼c • And rowed him softer home—像划着船桨回到家里b •
我已经签好遗嘱——分掉了 我所有可以分掉的 东西—-然后我就看见了 一只苍蝇—-
American Literature Lesson 7 Moby Dick and Symbols
American Literature
Spring 2013 Week of April 16 & 17
Lesson 7:
Moby Dick and Symbols
Let’s check your movie worksheet .
Optional* Film Time:
Moby Dick
Sunday afternoon 3:00 – 6:00 in 2320
The Discovery Channel’s ―Great Books‖: Moby Dick
• 20. What happens to Ishmael at the end? • He is the only survivor from the Pequod.
• He is rescued to tell the story.
(African) ) (Asian)
Moby Dick
• Back to the Plot:
pp. 36-43
–7. Much of the book from this point on is dedicated to Ishmael's nearly endless discussion of whales. –Except when Queequeg thinks he is going to die and he tells the ship’s carpenter to make him a coffin.
The Discovery Channel’s ―Great Books‖: Moby Dick
• 7. People hunted th whales in the 19 Century to get. . . • oil (for lamps mostly)
Spring 2013 Week of April 16 & 17
Lesson 7:
Moby Dick and Symbols
Let’s check your movie worksheet .
Optional* Film Time:
Moby Dick
Sunday afternoon 3:00 – 6:00 in 2320
The Discovery Channel’s ―Great Books‖: Moby Dick
• 20. What happens to Ishmael at the end? • He is the only survivor from the Pequod.
• He is rescued to tell the story.
(African) ) (Asian)
Moby Dick
• Back to the Plot:
pp. 36-43
–7. Much of the book from this point on is dedicated to Ishmael's nearly endless discussion of whales. –Except when Queequeg thinks he is going to die and he tells the ship’s carpenter to make him a coffin.
The Discovery Channel’s ―Great Books‖: Moby Dick
• 7. People hunted th whales in the 19 Century to get. . . • oil (for lamps mostly)
美国文学现实主义文学 PPT
美国文学现实主义文学
Part IV The Literature of Realism
美国现实主义文学 (1860-1914)
I. Historical Introduction II. Literary Movements between the Civil
War and the First World War III. The Establishment of American
Features of Realism
Emphasizes objectivity and offers an objective rather than an idealistic view of human nature and human experience. Realists seek truth that is verifiable by experience and have practical consequences. They expressed the concern for the world of experience, of the commonplace, and for the familiar and the low. Realism is embedded in a mimetic theory of art. Realists believe that literature imitates reality.
Local Colorism
❖ Local colorism is dependent upon a specific geographical location. Local colorists give emphasis to the local details by tapping into its folklore, history, mannerism, custom, beliefs and speech. Dialects peculiarities are the defining characteristic of local color writings. They tend to idealize and glorify, but they never forgot to keep an eye on the truthful color of local life.
Part IV The Literature of Realism
美国现实主义文学 (1860-1914)
I. Historical Introduction II. Literary Movements between the Civil
War and the First World War III. The Establishment of American
Features of Realism
Emphasizes objectivity and offers an objective rather than an idealistic view of human nature and human experience. Realists seek truth that is verifiable by experience and have practical consequences. They expressed the concern for the world of experience, of the commonplace, and for the familiar and the low. Realism is embedded in a mimetic theory of art. Realists believe that literature imitates reality.
Local Colorism
❖ Local colorism is dependent upon a specific geographical location. Local colorists give emphasis to the local details by tapping into its folklore, history, mannerism, custom, beliefs and speech. Dialects peculiarities are the defining characteristic of local color writings. They tend to idealize and glorify, but they never forgot to keep an eye on the truthful color of local life.
美国文学 英文介绍 经典课件
Herman Melville
? Characters: The Captain Ahab, Ishmael, Moby Dick
An Introduction to British and American Culture
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
? The first version of Leaves of Grass was published in 1855.
An Introduction to British and American Culture
Mark Twain
? Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
? The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County made him nationally famous.
An Introduction to British and American Culture
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
? Walden is a record of his reflections when he communicates ish and American Culture
Mark Twain
? The Adventures of Tom Sawyerwas an immediate success.
? The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn became his masterwork.
The Lost Generation
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) ? His first novel is This Side of Paradise. ? His second novel is The Beautiful and Damned. ? His masterpiece is The Great Gatsby. ? Characters: Gatsby， Daisy, Tom Buchanan
美国文学课件4
2) Moby Dick
Moby Dick possesses various symbolic meanings for various individuals. 1) Symbol of nature for human beings, because it is mysterious, powerful, unknown. 2) Symbol of evil for the Captain Ahab. 3) Symbol of good and purity because of its whiteness.
American Literature
Lecture 4
Objectives
• Enable the Ss to know the background, representative writers and their works of the Romantic period in American literary history; • Enable the Ss to appreciate Hawthorne’s style by a close reading of “The Minister’s Black Veil” • Enable the Ss to know how to appreciate poems by analyzing Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee” from the perspective of form and theme etc.
Sources: ---German Idealism, ---German Transcendentalism ---American Puritanism.
Definition by Emerson
美国文学选读之白鲸PPT课件
6 .Character List
• Ishmael - The narrator, and a junior member of the crew of the Pequod. Ishmael doesn't play a major role in the events of the novel, but much of the narrative is taken up by his eloquent, verbose, and extravagant discourse on whales and whaling.
• --- The married life of Melville was more like that of Scott Fitzgerald than Mark Twains. Melville married Elizabeth Shaw, the daughter of a wealthy judge. To support her and their growing family, he had to write for money.
• ---During the summer of 1850, Melville and Hawthorne met. They exchanged visits, meeting at least nine times, and wrote to one another often.
• ---Melville saw in Hawthorne the one American who was expressively aware of the evil at the core of American life. He found Hawthorne’s understanding of evil, that blackness of vision, unusually fascinating.
英美文学欣赏最新版教学课件美国文学Unit 4 Emily Dickinson
车上载的只有我们俩—— 还有永生与我们同往。
英美文学欣赏（第四版）
We slowly drove — He knew no haste And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility —
我们驾车款款而行—— 他也知道无须匆忙 为了报答他的礼貌，
英美文学欣赏（第四版）
An Appreciation of American Literature
Unit 4 Emily Dickinson
英美文学欣赏（第四版）
作者简介
艾 米 莉 ·狄 金 森（Emily Dickinson，1830—1886）， 美国19 世纪最杰出的女诗人， 现代派诗歌先驱。
英美文学欣赏（第四版）
因为死神的殷勤相邀，诗人便抛开劳作和闲暇，乘坐死神 的马车，依次驶过喧闹的学 校、成熟的原野和落日夕阳，也可 以引申为人生的三个阶段，由生到死的自然历程。随着夕阳驶 去，含意袭来，诗人衣着单薄，感觉出了颤抖和寒冷。死亡临 近了。
终于看到了墓地和坟茔。马车停在了一所房子前，屋檐低 于地面。几个世纪的时间， 仿佛短过那一天。诗人恍然悟出： 死亡马车的马头是朝向永恒的方向。超越时空，死亡即永生。 和开篇主题呼应。
The Roof was scarcely visible — The Cornice — in the Ground —
我们停在一座房舍前 它好似土包隆起在地上——
屋顶几乎模糊难辨—— 檐 口—— 也 隐 没 在 地 中央——
英美文学欣赏（第四版）
Since then — 'tis Centuries — and yet Feels shorter than the Day
英美文学欣赏（第四版）
We slowly drove — He knew no haste And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility —
我们驾车款款而行—— 他也知道无须匆忙 为了报答他的礼貌，
英美文学欣赏（第四版）
An Appreciation of American Literature
Unit 4 Emily Dickinson
英美文学欣赏（第四版）
作者简介
艾 米 莉 ·狄 金 森（Emily Dickinson，1830—1886）， 美国19 世纪最杰出的女诗人， 现代派诗歌先驱。
英美文学欣赏（第四版）
因为死神的殷勤相邀，诗人便抛开劳作和闲暇，乘坐死神 的马车，依次驶过喧闹的学 校、成熟的原野和落日夕阳，也可 以引申为人生的三个阶段，由生到死的自然历程。随着夕阳驶 去，含意袭来，诗人衣着单薄，感觉出了颤抖和寒冷。死亡临 近了。
终于看到了墓地和坟茔。马车停在了一所房子前，屋檐低 于地面。几个世纪的时间， 仿佛短过那一天。诗人恍然悟出： 死亡马车的马头是朝向永恒的方向。超越时空，死亡即永生。 和开篇主题呼应。
The Roof was scarcely visible — The Cornice — in the Ground —
我们停在一座房舍前 它好似土包隆起在地上——
屋顶几乎模糊难辨—— 檐 口—— 也 隐 没 在 地 中央——
英美文学欣赏（第四版）
Since then — 'tis Centuries — and yet Feels shorter than the Day
whitman and dickinson 美国文学课件
strong, The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work, The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand
④ nature: benevolent as well as cruel
Apparently with No Surprise
⑤ a transcendental man
Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower
The Frost beheads it at its play— In accidental power—
☆ Taught school at 17, and several times later his life
☆ Editors of several newspaper, notably that of The Brooklyn Eagle, a respected newspaper, but was fired for his outspoken opposition to slavery.
* immortal spirit satisfies the claim of Death. ° “Death is a Dialogue Between”
*criticism on materialism
I took my Power in my Hand
I took my Power in my HandAnd went against the World'Twas not so much as David-hadBut I-was twice as bold-I aimed by
④ nature: benevolent as well as cruel
Apparently with No Surprise
⑤ a transcendental man
Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower
The Frost beheads it at its play— In accidental power—
☆ Taught school at 17, and several times later his life
☆ Editors of several newspaper, notably that of The Brooklyn Eagle, a respected newspaper, but was fired for his outspoken opposition to slavery.
* immortal spirit satisfies the claim of Death. ° “Death is a Dialogue Between”
*criticism on materialism
I took my Power in my Hand
I took my Power in my HandAnd went against the World'Twas not so much as David-hadBut I-was twice as bold-I aimed by
MobyDick作者 ppt课件
• In August 1843, he became a sailor on
a warship(军舰), retired in October
1844 in Boston. Then he began to write and became a novelist. Taking the experiences at sea for the factual basis, the novel Moby Dick had come into being and been considered as one of the greatest novels in America. Melville is known as the American
• His works also include short stories like Bartleby《书记员巴特子比》 and novellas (中篇小说) like Billy Budd《比利·巴德》 and so on. Many of his works are steeped in(充满着)metaphor and allegory(寓言), at times cynical（愤世嫉俗的，冷嘲的）,
Civil War poems,1866) • 《克拉瑞尔》(Clarel,1876) ——长诗 • 《约翰·玛尔和其他水手》(John Marr and Other
Sailors，1888) ——诗集 • 《梯摩里昂》(Timoleon,1Fra bibliotek91) ——诗集
• When he died in 1891, he was almost completely forgotten. It was not until the "Melville Revival" in the early 20th century that his work won recognition, especially MobyDick, which was hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world
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Moby Dick
It is widely considered to be a Great American Novel and a treasure of world literature. It is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry. It is regarded as the first American prose epic, a Shakespearean tragedy of a man fighting against overwhelming odds in an indifferent and even hostile world.
Social Backgrounds
Whaling industry
American whaling in its most prosperous time. Whaling is a lucrative work. One whale‟s profit to every crew = half a year‟s revenue of a worker on land
Social Background: capitalism
The capitalism was an extremely greedy monster, swallowed everything endlessly. The blind and cruel predatory activities were not only a disaster but also left shadow in all the areas it conquered. The social atmosphere of conquest and possession was around everywhere.
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Other characters
• The harpooner and the best friend of Ishmael: Queequeg
• the first mate of the Pequod: Starbuck
• The Parsee: Fedallah
Moby Dick is not only a revenge
• The coffin further comes to symbolize life . When the Pequod sinks, the coffin becomes Ishmael’s buoy(浮标), saving not only his life but the life of the narrative that he will pass on.
the mementos( 纪念品) of
violent death
did not long survive
Moby Dick
Various Symbols
Mysterious Powerful
and unknown
Threat to the seamen And killed many sailors
story, but also is an
encyclopedia(百科全书) of
everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc. in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.The book is steeped in symbolism
Starbuck
Symbol of good and noble.
Themes of Moby Dick
Conflict between Good and Evil. Conflict between Man and Nature. Conflict between Man and Fate or
God. Solipsism and the expansion.
the Pequod. Ishmael
doesn’t play a major role in the events of the novel, but much of the narrative is taken up by his eloquent, verbose, and discourse on whales and whaling. He is the sole survivor
of the Pequod.
Pequod
• Named after a Native American tribeቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱin Massachusetts that did not long survive the arrival of white men and thus memorializing an extinction
1 The principal Characters 2 The intruduction of story 3 Symbols of Moby Dick 4 Themes of Moby Dick
Principal Characters
Ishmael
Moby Dick
Ahab
Others
Moby Dick-The whale
• It is painted a gloomy black and covered in whale teeth and bones
• The cruise of Pequod
The Cruise of the Pequod
Ahab
• The captain of the Pequod. Ahab lost his leg to Moby Dick. He is single-minded in his pursuit of the whale, using a mixture of charisma and terror to persuade his crew to join him. As a captain, he is dictatorial but not unfair. At moments he shows a compassionate side, caring for the insane Pip and musing on his wife and child back in Nantucket.
Voyage of the Pequod
Symbol of the pursuit of ideals, adventure, and the hunt in the vast wilderness.
Ahab Symbol of solipsism(唯我论), revenge and then evil.
• The great white sperm whale. Moby Dick, also referred to as the White Whale, is an infamous and dangerous threat to seamen, It bit off Ahab's leg, leaving Ahab to swear revenge. It also attacked the Rachel and killed the captain's son.
• Moby Dick appears in just three times in the novel, the reader does not have access to his thoughts and motivations.
• schoolteacher and part-time sailor; The narrator, and a junior member of the crew of
The Pequod
like a primitive coffin
named after a Native
American tribe in Massachusetts
is painted gloomy black and covered
in whale teeth and bones
a symbol of doom
Whiteness
Nature for humanbeings
Evil
Good and purity
Queequeg’s Coffin
• Queequeg’s coffin alternately (更迭 地)symbolizes life and death.
• Queequeg has it built when he is seriously ill, but when he recovers, it becomes a chest to hold his belongings and an emblem (象征，标志)of his will to live.