英美文学作业答案

《英美文学》作业答案

Unit 1

1. What year was Shakespeare Born?

A 1562 B1564 C 1616 D 1617

2. What was the name of Shakespeare's theatrical company?

A The King’s man

B The Queen’s man

C The Chess man

D The Lords man

3. All of the following plays are tragedies by Shakespeare except

A Othello

B Hamlet

C The Tempest

D Macbeth

4. English Renaissance Period was an age of

a. prose and novel

b. poetry and drama

c. essays and journals

d. ballad and songs

5. Shakespeare’s four tragedies are___________, ______________, ____________ and_____________.

6. Please read the famous monologue and answer the following questions.

To be, or not to be ─ that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles.

And by opposing end them.

To die─ to sleep

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to.

'tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wishd

To die ─ to sleep,

To sleep ─ perchance to dream;

ay, there's the rub!

For in that sleep of death what may come

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil

Must give us pause.

There's the respect

That makes calamity of so long life.

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

The oppressor's wrong, the proud

man's contumely,

The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,

The insolence of office, and the spurns

That patient merit of the unworthy takes,

When he himself might his quietus make

With a bare bodkin?

Who would these fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the dread of something after death

The undiscovered country, from whose bourn

No traveler returns ─ puzzles the will,

And makes us rather bear those ills we have

Than fly to others that we know not of?

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o’ er with the pale cast of thought,

And enterprises of great pith and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry

And lose the name of action.

1.Which famous play is the speech taken from? Who is the author of the play?

2.Who gives the speech in the play?

3.What does the speech indicate?

4.What is the story of the play?

7. Explain the term “Renaissance”.

Answer

1. B

2. D

3. C

4.B

5. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth

6 1). Hamlet; William Shakespeare

2) the main character of the play- Hamlet

3) “to be or not to be” indicates to live or end one’s life. The whole drift of the speech shows his belief in a future life. This speech shows Hamlet’s melancholy and his delay and describes he faced the dilemma of action and mind.

4). (见书本P6)

7.The term Renaissance refers to a great bourgeois cultural movement in Europe which began in the 14th century and continued to the mid-17th century. It first started from Italy and then spread al l over Europe. Originally, the term means “rebirth” or “revival”. And the movement seems to be a rebirth or revival of ancient Greek and Roman culture, caused by a series of historical events, such as the new discoveries in geography and astrology, the religious reformation and the economic expansion.

Unit 2

1.Please summarize the story of Robinson Crusoe.

2.What does the image of Robinson Crusoe represent?

3.What are the features of Daniel Defoe’s fictions?

4.___is considered the father of the English novel.

A. Defoe

B. Fielding

C. Richardson

D. Goldsmith

Answer

1. The story was based on the experience of a Scottish Sailor named Alexander Selkirk who had been marooned on

a desert island off the coast of Chile and lived there in solitude for four or five years. After his return to Europe, his adventures became known. Defoe wrote this novel in the first person singular.