高级英语第二册第二课Marrakech课件

1、lesson two,marrakech by george orwell,george orwell,biography,orwells press card portrait, taken in 1933,george orwell was the pseudonym(笔名） of eric arthur blair (1903-50), an english writer who at one time served with the indian imperial police in burma（缅甸）. he fought in the spanish civil war, an e

2、xperience he recorded in homage to catalonia. george orwells life is short, but his with keen insight and sharp style of writing survey and record his life by the era, made many beyond the prophecies（预言） of the era, is called “generation the coldness of conscience”.,works,1931 行刑（a hanging） 1933 巴黎伦

3、敦落魄记（down and outi in paris and london） 1934 在缅甸的日子（burmese days） 1935 牧师的女儿（a clergymans daughter） 1936 让叶兰在风中飞舞（keep the aspidistra flying） 1938 向加泰罗尼亚致敬（homage to catalonia） 1939 上来透口气（coming up for air） 1940 鲸鱼之中（inside the whale） 1941 狮子与独角兽（the lion and the unicorn: socialism and the english g

4、enius） 1945 民族主义的基本特征（notes on nationalism）、动物庄园（animal farm） 1946 穷人之死（how the poor die） 1949 甘地的思考（reflections on gandhi） 1950 猎象（shooting an elephant）一九八四（nineteen eighty-four）,animal farm (1945),a political fable each animal represents a certain human character, meant to criticize stalins social

5、ism. a short novel that criticizes the soviet union, one of englands allies in world war ii . it is an entertaining story about animals or, on a deeper level, a savage（野蛮的，残酷的） attack on the misuse of political power.,nineteen eighty-four (1949),an english novel about life in a dictatorship （专政）as l

6、ived by winston smith. an intellectual worker at the ministry of truth, and his degradation（退化，堕落） when he runs afoul of（与冲突） the totalitarian (极权主义的 ) government of oceania (大洋洲), the state in which he lives in the year that he presumes（假定，推测） is 1984.,george orwell,the master of a superb（华丽的,宏伟的） lucid (清晰的) prose style. an uncompromising（不妥协的，坚定的） individualist and political idealist famous for his political satires（讽刺诗） orwell argued that writers have an obligation of fighting social injustice, oppression（镇压,压迫）and the power of totalitarian (极权主义的 ) regimes（政权）.,university college ho