高级英语第三课blackmail

1、Lesson 3Blackmail -Arthur Hailey罗昕珏 吴韩单秋燕 孙梅ContentsBrief introduction about Arthur HaileyCharacter analysisPlotIm Arthur HaileyBrief introduction about Arthur Hailey Nationality: British and Canadian. Born: Luton（卢顿）, Bedfordshire( 贝德福德郡), 1920; emigrated to Canada in 1947: became citizen, 1952. Ed

2、ucation: Elementary schools in England. Military Service: Served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force, 1939-47: Flight Lieutenant（中尉）. Career: Office boy and clerk, London, 1934-39; assistant editor, 1947-49, and editor, 1949-53, Bus and Truck Transport, Toronto; sales promotion manager, Trail Mobile C

3、anada, Toronto, 1953-56. Since 1956 freelance writer. Awards: Canadian Council of Authors and Artists award, 1956; Best Canadian TV Playwright award, 1957, 1958; Doubleday Prize Novel award, 1962. He had begun his writing life as a journalist on a transport magazine, but got his break as a fiction w

4、riter when, during a flight, he began to ponder what would happen if both pilots fell sick from food poisoning. The storyline led to his first big success.Hailey said he detached（分离） himself from his plots and characters once a book had been sold to Hollywood. Having tried script-writing at one stag

5、e in his career, he saw movie-making as a completely different discipline from novel writing and decided to stick with what he knew.Novels 1958 Flight into Danger (with John Castle)1959 The Final Diagnosis-最后诊断- hospital politics1962 In High Places-Cold War Era politics in North America1965 Hotel 大饭

6、店 -hotels1968 Airport-航空港-airport politics 1971 Wheels-automobile industry 1975 The Moneychangers-钱商-banks 1979 Overload-超载-power crisis in California 1984 Strong Medicine-烈药-pharmaceutical industry 1990 The Evening News-newscasters 1997 Detective-investigation politics Plays 1960 Close-Up (collecte

7、d plays) Film Screenplays 1957 Time Lock 1961 The Young Doctors 1978 WheelsHailey bestsellers include: Hotel大饭店 Airport航空港 Motor city汽车城 The Final Diagnosis最后诊断 The Money Changers钱商 Strong Medicine烈药 Evening news晚报How did he write the Hotel He would spend about one year researching a subject, follow

8、ed by six months reviewing his notes and, finally, about 18 months writing the book. That aggressive research tracking rebel guerrillas in the Peruvian(秘鲁人) jungle at age 67 for The Evening News (1990), or reading 27 books on the hotel industry for Hotel gave his novels a realism that appealed to re

9、aders, even as some critics complained that he used it to disguise a lack of literary talent. About the novel Hotel The St. Gregory Hotel is the largest in New Orleans, Louisiana. For 4 days from Monday evening to Friday, the hotel goes through a succession of dramatic events. With the hotels mortga

10、ge due by the weekend and with no chance of getting further renewal, the owner, Warren Trent, reluctantly makes up his mind to sell his hotel to a chain hotel owner, Curtis OKeefe.So the story is about St. Gregory,an independent New Orleans hotel, and its managements struggle to regain profitability

11、 and avoid being assimilated into the OKeefe chain of hotels. The St. Gregory is supposedly based on the Roosevelt Hotel. Character analysis: Character analysis:Ogilvie 1. Appearance: fat, piggy eyes, gross jowled face, obese body, incongruous falsetto voice, moving with surprising speed 2. Characte

12、r: at first rude, sardonic, self-assured, shameless greedy, but finally subservient Duchess 1.Appearance: pale cheek with two high points, gray-green eyes 2.Character: imperious, three centuries and a half of inbred arrogance, decisive, vigilant, very quick in responseDuke 1. Appearance: attempt to

13、square his shoulders but failed 2.uncertain, ready to compromise, passive, despairingly, Eg:“Thats interesting, I didnt know that.” The duke spoke as if he was speaking of sb. unrelated to the whole thing. Stage photoPlotPart 1. Prelude (1-3) (The chief house officer .Ogilvie remained standing) Sect

14、ion 1. The setting, main characters, and the suspension. (The chief house .that both might return at any moment.) Section 2. The preliminary encounter between the house detective and the Croydons. (A wave of cigar smoke.Ogilvie remained standing) Part2: 4-22Process of unveiling the crime (Now then.t

15、he Duchess turned away） Section 1. First round of clash. the Duke confessed his crime (Now then.Now were getting somewhere). Section 2. Second round of clash. (Wearily, in a gesture.I can prove all I need to ) Ogilvie spelt out what he had found out about the activity of the Croydons and tried to co

16、nfirm all the details. The Duchess tried to win back the upper hand. Section 3. The conviction was undeniable. (The Duke cautioned.the Duchess turned away ). The Croydons realized that they were convicted of the crime Part 3. 23-99The Dirty Deal Section 1. Eliminating the possibility of having the car repaired in New Orleans. ( Her husband asked.You people are hot). Section 2. The interior monologue of the Duchess. Her judgement, analysis and calculation of the situation,