英国文学简答题

Make a brief comment on the Renaissance (3)

What are the features of Shakespeare’s drama?Give some examples (3)

Why is the18th century called the Age of Enlightenment? (3)

Give a brief comment on the work Pride and Prejudice (4)

Make a brief comment on Critical Realism (4)

Make a comment on Charles Dickens’novels (4)

Give a brief analysis on the character Jane Eyre in Charlotte Bronte’s work (5)

Make a comment on Modernism,including the historical background and the characteristics (5)

Metaphysical Poetry (6)

English Romanticism (6)

Give a brief analysis on the character Hamlet (6)

The Writing Style of Francis Bacon’s Essays (7)

Lake Poets (7)

Make a brief comment on the Renaissance.

Renaissance marks the transition from the medieval to the modern world.It first started in Italy in the14th century and gradually spread all over Europe.The word “Renaissance”means rebirth or revival.In essence,it is a historical period in which the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to get rid of those old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe and introduce new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie,and to lift the restriction in all areas placed by the Roman Catholic Church authorities.Two features of renaissance:It is a thirsting curiosity for the classical literature.People learned to admire the Greek and Latin works as models of literary form.It is the keen interest in the activities of humanity.

What are the features of Shakespeare’s drama?Give some examples.

1)He is one of the founders of realism in world literature.

2)His dramatic creation often used the method of adoption.

3)His long experience with the stage and his intimate knowledge of dramatic art

thus acquired make him a master hand for playwriting.

4)He was skilled in many poetic forms:the song,the sonnet,the couplet,and the

dramatic blank verse.He is at home with blank verse.

5)He was a great master of the English language.Shakespeare and the authorized

bible are the two great treasuries of the English language.

6)Shakespeare has been universally acknowledged to be the summit of the English

renaissance,and one of the greatest writers of the world over.

Why is the18th century called the Age of Enlightenment?

The18th-century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason.

1)The Enlightenment Movement was a progressive intellectual movement which

flourished in France&swept through the whole Western Europe at the time.

2)The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the15th&16th centuries.

3)Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modem

philosophical&artistic ideas.

4)English enlighteners believed in the power of reason.They considered that

social problems could be solved by human intelligence.

5)The Enlighteners criticized different aspects of contemporary England,discussed

social life according to a more reasonable principle.

6)The Enlightener celebrated reason or ration,equality,science and human beings’

ability to perfect themselves and their society.They called for a reference to order, reason&rules&advocated universal education.

7)Famous among the great enlighteners in England were those great writers like

John Dryden,Alexander pope&so on.