现代大学英语精读5 Lesson 4

1、现代大学英语精读5 Lesson 4 老师上课精品PPT Lesson 4 老师上课精品PPT Quiz1 2 3 4 5 6 极端因循守旧 处于神思状态 书评 裙子的沙沙响声 归功自身 晕圈的光芒 extreme conventionality in a state of trance a book review the rustling of skirts take credit to oneself radiance of the halo 老师上课精品PPT Quiz1 2 3 4 5 6 无意识存在 处于神思状态 泄露隐秘 正值防卫 鬼魅，魅影 直截了当地说 the unconsci

2、ous being in a state of trance give away the secret act in self-defense a phantom to put it bluntly 老师上课精品PPT About the Author One of the foremost modernist/feministliterary figures of the twentieth century Bloomsbury Group Known for her experimentation innovation in novel writing Mrs. Dalloway (192

3、5) To the Lighthouse (1927) A Room of ones Own (1929) Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) 老师上课精品PPT Did you know? (Paras. 1-2) she told me that the Society is concernedwith the employment of women (Para. 1) many famous women, have been before me, Pianos and models, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, making the path s

4、mooth and regulating my steps. (Para. 1) masters and mistresses (Para. 1) You have only got to figure to yourself a girl in a bedroom with a pen in her hand. (Para. 2) 老师上课精品PPT Text Analysis in that profession there are fewer experienceEarlier women writers have paved the way for those who follow i

5、n the profession of literature They have given her guidance while she was moving forward She has not many experiences of her own to share for women than in any other professions, that are peculiar to women. (Para. 1) Follow the pioneers 老师上课精品PPT Writing was a reputable and harmlessoccupation. (Para

6、. 1)Q: In what way was writing harmless as an occupation?Family Peace Harmless Cheapness 老师上课精品PPT The family peace was not broken by thescratching of a pen. (Para. 1)Scratching of a pen the sound of writing by using a pen tranquility no worry or quarrel Family peace quiet, sedentaryNo demand on the

7、 family purse 老师上课精品PPT The cheapness of writing is, the reason whywomen have succeeded as writers before they have succeeded in other profession. (Para. 1)Q: Where is the sarcasm? 老师上课精品PPT But to show you how little I deserve to becalled a professional women with my neighbors. (Para. 2)Q: What doe

8、s it imply?The lives of professional women are usually full of struggles and difficulties. They would spend what they earn on basic daily necessities. 老师上课精品PPT Did you know? (Para. 3) I will describe her as shortly as I can. in short she was so constituted that she never had a mind or a wish of her

9、 own, but preferred to sympathize always with the minds and wishes of others. Directly, that is to say, I took my pen in hand to review that novel by a famous man, she slipped behind me. 老师上课精品PPT Did you know? (Para. 3) Be sympathetic; be tender; flatter;deceive; us all the arts and wiles of our se

10、x. And she made as if to guide my pen. I now record the one act for which I take credit to myse lf I turned upon her and caught her by the throat. 老师上课精品PPT Did you know? (Para. 3) My excuse, if I were to had up in a courtof law, would be that I acted in selfdefense. For, as I found, directly I put

11、pen to paper, you cannot review even a novel they must charm, the must conciliate, they mustto put it bluntlytell lies if they are to succeed. 老师上课精品PPT Did you know? (Para. 3) Her fictitious nature was of greatassistance to her. She was always creeping back when I thought I had despatched her. it w

12、as an experience that was bound to befall all women writers at that time. 老师上课精品PPT Angel in the House A poem by Coventry Patmore Popular during the nineteenth century and itsinfluence continued well into the twentieth believed to be the perfect Victorian wife An account of Patmore's wife, Emily

13、, whom he 老师上课精品PPT to come between me and my paper(Para. 3) come between A and B 1) disturb or harm a relationship between two persons 2) prevent sb. from doing or having sth. 老师上课精品PPT Qualities of a Victorian Womansympathetic understanding others minds wishes depend on charm for a living chicken

14、leg draught Excel in the difficult arts of family life her blushes charmingunselfish sacrificing good at household chorespure 老师上课精品PPT In those day-the last days of Queen(Para. 3) Victoria-every house had its Angel.Every house had a woman who was sympathetic, charming, unselfish and pure. The belie

15、f that every woman should be sympathetic, charming, unselfish and pure was widespread 老师上课精品PPT Queen Victoria (1819-1901) The Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death in 1901 Victoria's reign was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire Difficu

16、lties escalated for women because of the vision of the ideal women shared by most in the society 老师上课精品PPT Thus, whenever I felt the shadow of her wing or the radiation of her halo upon my page, I took up the inkpot and flung it at her. (Para. 3)shadow or radiation Influence of the Victorian attitud

17、es 老师上课精品PPT Though I flatter myself that I killed her inthe end(Para. 3) Q: Why does the author use “flatter”? Is there any implication? She has not put an end to the existence of the phantom once for all and it may come back again. 老师上课精品PPT Did you know (Para. 4) In other words, now that she had

18、ridherself of falsehood, 老师上课精品PPT I mean, what is a woman? (Para. 4) Q: What does the speaker try to ask? the identity and role of a woman in society when the traditional view is challenged 老师上课精品PPT until she has expressed herself in all arts (Para.4) Q: How do you interpret “expressed herself”?Sh

19、e has participated in all arts and professions. She has expressed her own feeling and opinion. 老师上课精品PPT Functions of the Womens Service League(Para.4) 1. show women by experiments what a woman is 2. provide women with the extremely important piece of information 老师上课精品PPT Did you know (Para. 5) and

20、 I bought a Persian cat with theproc eeds. A Persian cat is all very well, I said; but a Persian cat is not enough. I hope I am not giving away professional secrets 老师上课精品PPT Did you know (Para. 5) He has to induce in himself a state ofperpetual lethargy. Be as it may, I want to imagine me writing a

21、 novel in a state of trance. It had sought the pools, the depths, the dark places where the largest fish slumber. To speak without figure she had thought of something, something about the body 老师上课精品PPT Benefits of Writing NovelsEconomically, Material harvest: People will give you a motor car Psycho

22、logically spiritual Nothing is so delightful in the world as satisfaction: telling a story 老师上课精品PPT Why does the author say that a novelists chiefdesire is to be as unconscious as possible?the unconscious: a Freudian term 1) There is a great part of the human mind we dont know about 2) Some of the

23、most powerful influences on human personality are things about which we are not conscious of 3) A new dimension for modernists, who strove to explore the new “inner” reality in many works of art Suspend everyday rational consciousness in order to liberate an imaginative expression of the deepest cre

24、ativity 老师上课精品PPT He wants life to proceed with the utmost quietand regularitythat very shy and illusive.Why does he want life to proceed with the utmost quiet and regularity?Does this have something to do with the unconscious state? tranquility regularityImagination No distraction away from the cre

25、ative task Stay unconscious 老师上课精品PPT letting her imagination sweep unchecked round every rock andof our unconscious being.explore freely every corner of the inner world sweep unchecked every rock and cranny 老师上课精品PPT Now came the experience, the experiencethat I believe to be with men.What was the

26、experience? Why does the author believe that this experience was far commoner with women writers than with men?Mens approval Prejudice against women 老师上课精品PPT The line raced through her fingersdashed against something hard.An extended metaphor of the fisherman fisherman the process of fishing Seek t

27、he depths where the largest fish would be Explosion, foam and confusion writerthe process of creative writing Explore the depths of the unconscious being where hidden thoughts feelings would be found Obstacles in imagination 老师上课精品PPT The consciousness of what menthestate of unconsciousness.1) She r

28、ealized that men would not approve of a womans boldness to tell the truth about the body and the passion 2) The realization interrupted her imagination 老师上课精品PPT Paraphrase the sentence though men sensibly allow themselvesgreat freedom in these respects, I doubt that they realize or can control the

29、extreme severity with which they condemn such freedom in women. 老师上课精品PPT Did you know (Paras. 6-7) Even when the path is nominallyopenthere are many phantoms and obstacles, as I believe, looming in her way. (Para. 6) Outwardly, what is simpler than to write books?. .Inwardly, I think the case is di

30、fferent. 老师上课精品PPT Q: What are the main ideas of Paragraph 6?1. A summary of the two experiences 2. The second obstacle is more difficult to overcome. 3. The obstacles seem even greater in the new professions women are entering. 老师上课精品PPT Q: What tasks are of great importance according to Paragraph

31、7?Task 1Discuss and define the phantoms and obstacles Discuss the ends and aims Task 2 Task 3 Perpetually question and examine the aims 老师上课精品PPT You have won rooms of your own in the househitherto exclusively owned by men.Roomposition or freedo m (Para. 7) a space for living in the house a space for creative activity in the whole society dominated by men up to now 老师上课精品PPT You are able, to pay the rent.1) Earn five hundre