河大老师的课件F Scott Fitzgerald.ppt

The Lostቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱGeneration
迷惘的一代
• The term “Lost Generation” was first used by Gertrude Stein(1874-1946), one of the leaders of this group.
• It included the young English and American expatriates as well as men and women caught in the war and cut off from the old values and yet unable to come to terms with the new era when civilization had gone mad.
• It means this generation had lost the beautiful sense of the calm idyllic past.
The Lost Generation
• Stein’s comment suggests the ambiguous and pointless lives of expatriates as they aimlessly wandered about the Continent, drinking, making love, and traveling from place to place and from party to party.
• These activities seem to justify their search for new meanings to replace the old ones.
The Lost Generation
• Yet, in fact, being cut off from their past, disillusioned in reality, and without a meaningful future to fall on, they were lost in disillusionment and existential voids.
but poor; his mother, dominant and eccentric woman • 3. Education: Princeton • 4. Working Experiences: in 1917, he left college and joined the army
II. Literary Achievements
• They lost their sense of being a part of American society.
• It was not the war itself, but long exposure to European culture which intensified their criticism of American life.
The Lost Generation
• Now although they lived in Europe, they still thought about what it meant to be in America.
• They had not given up on American civilization. • They criticized it, satirized it, laughed at it, but
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
F. 司各特·费茨杰拉德
The Great Gatsby 《了不起的盖茨比》
Picture of Fitzgerald
Zelda and Fitzgerald
I. Life
• 1. Birthplace: St. Paul, Minnesota • 2. Family: his father, from a genteel family,
• They indulged in hedonism in order to make their life less unbearable.
The Lost Generation
• For American expatriates, they had cut themselves from their past in America in order to search for the meaning of their American experience.
III. Comment
• Fitzgerald is representative of the 1920s. • a spokesman for the Jazz Age, one of the “lost
generation” writers. • He was an able writer who recorded the changing
manners, morals, and social environment of his time, but mostly about himself and his own problems. • He expressed what the young people believed in the 1920s, that that they could wipe out the past and rebuild the world into something much better, free from the ideas of the older generation.
• 1920: This Side of Paradise 《人间天堂》 • 1922: The Beautiful and the Damned 《美丽的和可诅咒的》 • 1925: The Great Gatsby 《了不起的盖茨比》 • 1934: Tender is the Night《夜色温柔》 • 1941: The Last Tycoon《最后的大亨》