美国文学John-Steinbeck-the-Grapes-of-Wrath-愤怒的葡萄教案资料

1、THE GRAPES OF WRATHBY CYANJohn Steinbeck第一页，共20页。I. Social background 1) The Great Depression in 1930s The Wall Street crash in Oct. 24, 1929, “the bottom dropped of the stock market” Result: a. The dim decade of 1930s replaced the glittering 1920s. Banks failed, factories closed and agriculture wit

2、hered; Jobless millions roamed the street; the breadless stretched long; Absolute poverty and struggled for survival is a nightmarish experience of life. b. The physical wasteland replaced the spiritual wasteland represented by T. S. Eliot.第二页，共20页。Major Features of the 1930s LiteratureContent: Soci

3、al involvement and concern about the societyTechnique: the revival of naturalism and realism in addition to the influence of modernism第三页，共20页。John Steinbeck (1902-1968)Salinas California (1902)Stanford(1919-1925)New York(1925)Cup of Gold（1929）Pulitzer Prize (1940)Nobel Prize (1962)War Correspondent

4、(1966)第四页，共20页。III. Major works 1. First novel: Cup of Gold (1929) 金杯金杯(jn bi) 2. Workers Trilogy: a. In Dubious Battle (1936) 胜负未决胜负未决 - About the strike by migrant farm-workers b. Of Mice and Men (1937) 人鼠之间人鼠之间 - the mutual dependence and shared dreams of migrant farm-workers 第五页，共20页。c. The Grap

5、es of Wrath (1939) 愤怒愤怒(fnn)的葡萄的葡萄 his masterpiece for which Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for it in 19623. The Moon Is Down (1942) 月亮下去了月亮下去了4. East of Garden (1952) 伊甸园以东伊甸园以东 第六页，共20页。Steinbeck began to write a series of California novels and Dust Bowl fiction, set among common people during

6、 the Great Depression. These included In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath. 第七页，共20页。The Grapes of WrathThe book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The Grapes of Wrath is frequently read in American high school and college literature classes due to its

7、historical context and enduring legacy. A celebrated Hollywood film version was made in 1940.第八页，共20页。 - His epic masterpiece of social consciousness and a crisis novel; - A picture of helpless people crushed by drought and depression； - One of the classic documents of the Great Depression第九页，共20页。P

8、lotSet during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work. Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in pa

9、rt because they were trapped in the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California. Along with thousands of other Okies, they sought jobs, land, dignity, and a future.第十页，共20页。Dustbowl第十一页，共20页。第十二页，共20页。Oklahoma dust bowl refugees. 第十三页，共20页。1. Source of the title1. Source of the title - A war song of

10、 the Civil War, “The Battle Hymn of - A war song of the Civil War, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” the Republic” 共和国的战斗赞美诗：共和国的战斗赞美诗： Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord,Lord, He is tramping out the vintage where the grapes of

11、He is tramping out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are storedwrath are stored“ “我的眼睛已经见到老爷驾临的荣光，我的眼睛已经见到老爷驾临的荣光， 他在践踏那些他在践踏那些(nxi)(nxi)被储存了很久的愤怒的葡萄被储存了很久的愤怒的葡萄” ” 第十四页，共20页。2. Main Characters 2. Main Characters 第十五页，共20页。3. Purpose of the novel3. Purpose of the novel showing authors clear expr

12、ession of sympathy with the dispossessed and the wretched 4. Biblical structure4. Biblical structure 1) The 30 chapters fall into 3 sections: - First 10 chapters: the description of the drought; - Chapters 13 to 18: the journeying to California; - The remaining 12 chapters: a narrative of the life o

13、f the migrants in California第十六页，共20页。2) Biblical influence - The story corresponds to “The Exodus”出埃及出埃及(i j)记记in the Old Testament of the Bible: The ancient Jews went to Egypt in search of food and stayed there for 400 years and became the slaves of the Egyptian Pharaoh (埃埃及及(i j)法老法老)； 第十七页，共20页。

14、Steinbeck points out the real meaning of the title: Something in the nature of a social revolution would be imminent if nothing is done to stop the detonation.He uses Gods wrath in the Bible to symbolize the anger of people.第十八页，共20页。Nobel PrizeIn 1962, Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for literature f

15、or his realistic and imaginative writing, combining as it does sympathetic humor and keen social perception.”the writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate mans proven capacity for greatness of heart and spiritfor gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectibility of man has n