F.S Fitzgerald菲兹杰罗德.ppt

1、Made by group 15,F Scott Fitzgerald,1）Life and Career 2）Works 3）The Jazz Age Roaring Twenties American Dream The Lost Generation 4）Writing Style 5）The Great Gatsby,Major Topics,Life experience,Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in St.Paul, on September 24, 1896. Raised in St. Paul, Minnesota,he did p

2、oorly in school and was sent to New Jersey boarding school in 1911. He was educated at Princeton University in 1913.There he was surrounded by people richer, more sophisticated than he was. He felt inferior(劣势的) to his classmates. But he cut a figure on the football field and made a place for himsel

3、f in the university literary groups,Enlisted in the army in 1917,he became a second lieutenant(少尉), and was stationed at Camp Sheridan, in Montgomery, Alabama, where he met and fell in love with Zelda Sayre. Zelda, a wild 17-year-old beauty who was crazy for wealth, fun and leisure, agreed to marry

4、him as long as he could prove a success,He published his first novel This Side of Paradise(1920), and became a literary sensation(轰动) ，earning enough money and fame to convince Zelda to marry him.Then he published his famous works: The great Gatsby(1925) Tender is the night (1934),In 1930 Zelda suff

5、ered several nervous breakdowns and was later diagnosed as schizophrenia（精神分裂症）. This was repeated and she was placed in a sanitarium（疗养院） in 1932. He died of heart attack while working on his last novel, The Last Tycoon,弗司各特菲茨杰拉德 1896年9月24日菲兹杰拉德生于明尼苏达州圣保罗市。父亲是家具商。他年轻时试写过剧本。读完高中后考入普林斯顿大学。在校时曾自组剧团，并为

6、校内文学刊物写稿。后因身体欠佳，中途辍学。 1917年菲兹杰拉德入伍，终日忙于军训，未曾出国打仗。 1920年菲兹杰拉德出版了长篇小说人间天堂，从此出了名，小说出版后他与吉姗尔达结婚。婚后携妻寄居巴黎，结识了安德逊、海明威等多位美国作家。 1925年了不起的盖茨比问世，奠定了他在现代美国文学史上的地位，成了20年代“爵士时代”的发言人和“迷惘的一代”的代表作家之一。吉珊尔达对他的生活与创作影响很大，他的小说里许多女主人公都有她的面影,1934年菲茨杰拉尔德出版了另一部重要的长篇小说夜色温柔，成功地表现了上层资产者的自私与腐化，对主人公的沉沦满怀同情。但评论界对它反应冷淡。 1936年不幸染上肺

7、病，妻子又一病不起，使他几乎无法创作，精神濒于崩溃，终日酗酒。 1940年12月21日菲兹杰拉德迸发心脏病，死于洛杉矶，年仅44岁,This Side of Paradise (life in Princeton, frustration of young men) The Beautiful and the Damned (love story with Zelda) The Great Gatsby (masterpiece) Tender is the Night The Last Tycoon (unfinished,Major Works,The Great Gatsby,The B

8、eautiful and Damned 美女和被诅咒的人,This Side of the Paradise天堂的这一边,Jazz Age爵士时代,Tender and the Night 夜色温柔,The Last Tycoon最后的大亨,works,剧本：美女和被诅咒的人、伟大的盖茨比、生死同心、女人、乱世佳人、居里夫人、我最后一次看到巴黎、绮梦初艳等长篇小说：最后一个大亨、明智的事、了不起的盖茨比、夜色温柔、最后一个巨头、天堂的这一边、人间天堂等短片小说：姑娘们与哲学家们、爵土时代的故事、富家公子、本杰明巴顿奇特的一生、伯妮斯剪发、遗失的十年等,Roaring Twenties,Roar

9、ing Twenties,The Roaring Twenties is a phrase used to describe the 1920s. The phrase was meant to emphasize the periods social, artistic, and cultural dynamism. The spirit of the Roaring Twenties was marked by a general feeling of discontinuity associated with modernity, a break with traditions,Ever

10、ything seemed to be feasible through modern technology. Formal decorative frills were shed in favor of practicality in both daily life and architecture. At the same time, jazz and dancing rose in popularity, in opposition to the mood of the specter of World War I. As such, the period is also often r

11、eferred to as the Jazz Age,The Jazz Age,1920s Music,Jazz(爵士乐), Ragtime(拉格泰姆) and Broadway musicals（百老汇音乐剧） were features of 1920s music,1920s Music,Jazz is a musical tradition and style of music that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern Unit

12、ed States from a confluence of African and European music traditions,1920s Literature,Literature of the times captured the changes in Society.Authors of the period struggled to understand the changes occurring in society. While some writers praised the changes others expressed disappointment in the

13、passing of the old ways. As the average American in the 1920s became more enamored of wealth and everyday luxuries, some began satirizing the hypocrisy and greed they observed,The American Dream is the idea held by many in the United States of America that through hard work, courage, and determinati

14、on one can achieve financial and personal success. These were values held by many early European settlers, and have been passed down to subsequent generations,The American Dream,Lost Generation,Group of expatriate American writers residing primarily in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s. The group nev

15、er formed a cohesive literary movement, but it consisted of many influential American writers. Its name was given by Gertrude Stein, who, used an expression a lost generation, to refer to expatriate Americans bitter about their World War I experiences and disillusioned with American society,Writing

16、Style,Many of Fitzgeralds works are half autobiography properties. Because he married with a typical south woman, Fitzgerald showed interest in the southern United States in his novels. Fitzgerald created a kind of refreshing literature feminine image in his novels. They were trendy, independent and

17、 attractive. In the other hand, they had the courage to pursue their happiness at any cost,Fitzgeralds novels got praise of the field. But in fact, his short stories give him a commercial success and get him to win the general public recognition, rather than his novels. Fitzgeralds short stories are

18、 generally strong entertaining. They often own O. Henrys typical unexpected ending. If you read them, they will make you into great enjoyment,The Great Gatsby,赏 析,Gatsby is a poor youth from the Midwest. He falls in love with Daisy, a girl from a wealthy family. Gatsby is too poor to marry her, so D

19、aisy is married to a rich young man named Tom . Determined to win Daisy back, Gatsby engages himself in Bootlegging(违法的) and other illegal activities. Then he hosts dazzling parties every weekend in the hope of attracting the Buchanans to come. By chance his next-door neighbor, Nick Carraway, is Dai

20、sys relative and he helps Gatsby to make an appointment. They finally come and Gatsby meets Daisy again. But he finds Daisy is no longer the ideal love of his dream,The plot of the great Gatsby,故事情节 年轻时的盖茨比并不富有，他是一个少尉军官。他爱上了一位叫黛茜的姑娘，黛茜对他也情有所钟。后来第一次世界大战爆发，盖茨比被调往欧洲。似是偶然却也是必然，黛茜因此和他分手，转而与一个出身于富豪家庭的纨绔子弟

21、汤姆结了婚。黛茜婚后的生活并不幸福，因为汤姆另有情妇。物欲的满足并不能填补黛西精神上的空虚。盖茨比痛苦万分，他坚信是金钱让黛茜背叛了心灵的贞洁，于是立志要成为富翁。几年以后，盖茨比终于成功了。他在黛茜府邸的对面建造起了一幢大厦。盖茨比挥金如土，彻夜笙箫，一心想引起黛茜的注意，以挽回失去的爱情。 尼克为盖茨比的痴情所感动，便去拜访久不联系的远房表妹黛茜，并向她转达盖茨比的心意。黛茜在与盖茨比相会中时时有意挑逗。盖茨比昏昏然听她随意摆布，并且天真地以为那段不了情有了如愿的结局。然而真正的悲剧却在此时悄悄启幕。茜早已不是旧日的黛茜。黛茜不过将她俩目前的暖昧关系，当做一种刺激。尼克终于有所察觉，但为时已晚。一次黛茜在心绪烦乱的状态下开车，偏偏轧死了丈夫的情妇。盖茨比为保护黛茜，承担了开车责任，但黛茜已打定主意抛弃盖茨比。 在汤姆的挑拨下，致使其情妇的丈夫开枪打死了盖茨比。盖茨比最终彻底成为了牺牲品。盖茨比至死都没有发现黛茜脸上嘲弄的微笑。盖茨比的悲剧在于他把一切都献给了自己编织的美丽梦想，而黛茜作为他理想的化身，却只徒有美丽的躯壳。尽管黛西早已移情别恋,尽管他清楚地听出“她的声音充满了金钱”,却仍不改初衷,固执地追求重温旧梦然。