《玻璃动物园》PPT课件.ppt

The Glass Menagerie,Character analysis,Toms Double Role in the Play,As a character whose recollections the play documents As a character who acts within those recollections,作为一个人物,他的回忆播放文档 作为一个角色在扮演这些回忆,The Character Who Is Full of Contradiction（矛盾）,Care for his family Indifferent and even cruel toward them.（漠不关心甚至残酷） Rational （理性） Sometimes emotional（情绪） Dreamer Breadwinner（养家糊口） Dreams of higher things Stuck in reality, the lower class, lower job and endless household,The Man Who Intensifies（加剧） the Relation Between Wingfields,A character also a narrator points out the tension between truth and memorys distortion of truth Intensifies the relation between Wingfields and clearly shows their personalities Amandas nostalgia（怀念） for her past and demands for the familys future Lauras social and physical handicaps（缺陷）,Conflicts & Characteristics of Amanda and Laura,The Quarrel between Amanda and Tom,Cause: Legend on Screen: “You Think Im in Love with Continental Shoemakers?” the cause The great difference of their thoughts toward values and life between Amanda and Tom. Tom is always thinking of superior things, quite unsatisfied with the status quo（现状）, especially for his mother. Amanda affords him no privacy. She also arbitrarily（任意） returns his book, to which she calls a kind of “filth”.,The Emotional Quarrel,Lack of Privacy Amanda: What is the matter with you, you-big-big-IDIOT! Tom: Look-Ive got no thing, no single thing- Tom: In my life here that I can call my OWN! Everything is- Different thoughts Tom laughs wildly when Amanda is speaking Amanda: BUT I WONT ALLOW SUCH FILTH BROUGHT INTO MY HOUSE! No, No,no,no,no,no! Toms Point Tom: House, house! Who pays rent on it, who makes a slave of himself to- (He means himself, the one who pays the rent),The Emotional Quarrel,Toms Attempt to Escape Tom: No, I wont hear more. Im going out! Amanda: You come right back in- Tom: Out, out ,out! Because Im- Laura (desperately): Tom! Amandas Point Amanda: I think youve been doing things that youre ashamed of. Thats why you act like this. I dont believe that you go every night to the movies. Oh, I can picture the way youre doing down there. Moping, doping, because youre in no condition. Tom (wildly): No, I am in no condition! Amanda thinks Toms misbehavior is endangering his job and, hence, the familys security.,The Emotional Quarrel,Toms Rage Tom: Listen! You think Im crazy about the warehouse? (He bends fiercely toward her slight figure.) You think Im in love with the Continental Shoemakers? You think I want to spend fifty-five years down there in that- Every time you come in yelling that God damn “Rise and Shine!” “Rise and Shine!” I say to myself “How lucky dead people are!” But I get up. I go! . For sixty-five dollars a month I give up all that I dream of doing and being ever! And you say self-selfs all I ever think of. Why, listen, if self is what I thought of, Mother, Id be where he is-GONE! (pointing to fathers picture) Tom says: You ugly-babbling old-witch He passionately expresses his hatred for the factory, and seems to envy the dead people for Amandas morning slogans sake. He also says how he has abandoned his dreams to work day after day for them. And if he is exactly a selfish person as Amanda claims, he would have deserted them long ago.,Overview of This Conflict,She desperately tries to seize his son, whom she considered as the backbone of great importance to both the future and present, in the family. Therefore she may unintentionally ignore her sons feelings. When Tom starts past her (for he wants to leave immediately), Amanda grabs his arm. She fears to lose again- first her husband, now the son. Amanda is willful in doing what she deems as righteous. She presumptuously returns his book by the insane (in her opinion) Mr. Lawrence. Have you noticed Lauras existence in this conflict? There is only one line. Lauras painful shyness and silence is completely shown.,“My glass! -menagerie”,His arm catches in the sleeve of the coat as he struggles to pull it on. For a moment he is pinioned by the bulky garment. With an outraged groan he tears the coat off again, splitting the shoulders of it, and hurls it across the room. It strikes against the shelf of Lauras glass collection, there is a tinkle of shattering glass. LAURA cries out as if wounded. LAURA (shrilly): My glass!-menagerie(she covers her face and turns away) (TOM is left with LAURA. LAURA clings weakly to the mantel with her face averted. TOM stares at her stupidly for a moment. Then he crosses to shelf. Drops awkwardly to his knees to collect the fallen glass, glancing at LAURA as if he would speak but couldnt.) A conflict between Tom and Laura. Tom accidentally breaks her glass menagerie, and seems to say something to Laura but couldnt.,Laura and the Glass Menagerie,The glass menagerie stands for a symbolic meaning -Lauras personality. Like these fragile, beloved glass animals, Laura is also delicate, flighty. Lauras first response to her broken treasure is sorrow, not anger. Toms speechlessness toward Laura may suggest his own self-contradiction, and Lauras pathetic personality.,玻璃动物园代表一个象征意义-Laura的个性。 像这些脆弱,心爱的玻璃动物,劳拉也是精致、反复无常的。 劳拉的第一反应她受伤的宝藏是悲痛的,不是愤怒。 汤姆的无言向劳拉，可能会建议他自己的矛盾,劳拉的可怜的人格。,Laura the Peacemaker,In Scene 4, Tom returns home The conflict among the three. Due to his indignant departure, Amanda says: “ I wont speak to you- until you apologize!” Laura plays an role as peacemaker between Amanda and Tom. In the possible complete silence between them, Laura becomes dramatically active (compared to the former scenes) in speaking, for she wants to recover the atmosphere in her family. Amanda sends Laura out to buy groceries on credit. On the way down the fire escape, Laura slips and falls but is not hurt. Both Amanda and Tom instantly show their care for her. But as soon as Tom apologizes, Lauras play becomes again unimportant.,Characteristics of Amanda and Laura,Through analyzing the conflicts,Characteristic of Amanda,Through the quarrel between Amanda and Tom, we know that they have quite different thoughts and values. Amandas Background and Change Amanda, who has a quite traditional upbringing, is from a prominent Southern family. But things have changed- everything she was once taught to value is now with a wholly new aspect. She does indeed suffer from this significant change, of economic and social status. We can perceive that Amanda is still sticking to the old ways, about genteel manner and values. Amanda is seemingly quite demanding and dominant, yet we should not forget her love and willingness to sacrifice for her children.,坚持过去的方式,关于文雅的态度和价值观。 阿曼达似乎是非常苛刻,霸道,但是我们不应该忘记她的爱和牺牲意愿为她的孩子。,Characteristic of Amanda,Evidence: Before the quarrel between Amanda and Tom, she is working on subscription sales. What for? In fact, she is preparing for Lauras marriage without much complaint. Due to the sharp turn of her life, which has alienated her from modern society, hardships are expected in her engagements with people. But she still does the hard work, with strange confidence. Amandas Psychological Defects（心理缺陷） Throughout the conflicts, we see that her perspective and values are different from Toms. Affords no privacy Over-concerned with Toms future prospect. Over-concerned with Lauras marriage, she is always arranging, planning for it.,阿曼达的心理缺陷 在整个冲突,我们看到,她的观点和价值观不同于汤姆的。 提供没有隐私 并不考虑汤姆的前景。 与劳拉的婚姻并不考虑,她总是安排、计划它。,Characteristic of Laura,Laura: crippled, wears a brace, walks with a limp. Twenty-three years old and painfully shy. She is far away from the reality outside the house. Throughout the conflicts From the obvious fewest lines in this play, we know that she is indeed “painfully shy”, almost selfless. The broken glass menagerie represents her fragile world. The existence of a mere pitiable figure of compassion, for Amanda and Tom never demand anyt