大学英语课前展示.ppt

1、,Hi!,Presentation before class Made by,What do you think are the important things in your life?,Kinship Love Social Position Money Career Knowledge,Do you think “Money” is the most important thing in the world?,Your Answer is Yes or No?,I think most of us will disagree with that opinion!,But However

2、 No matter what anyway There is no doubt that,Including Me,There are some people who do treat money as the vitally important Thing!,外国文学作品中四大吝啬鬼形象：Miser(吝啬鬼) 夏洛克（英国）莎士比亚威尼斯商人 葛朗台（法国）巴尔扎克欧也妮葛朗台 阿巴贡（法国）莫里哀 吝啬鬼 泼留希金（俄国）果戈理死魂灵 ,Especially those figures in some famous literary masterpieces?,Today Ill sha

3、re something about one of the works with you!,Its a book, a movie, and an attitude towards life!,Eugenie Grandet,欧也妮葛朗台,Honor de Balzac,Father,mother Maid（Nanon） Grandets friends,characters,Father -The old Grandet the representative of greed and money He is a former cooper(n. 制桶工人；修桶匠) who has becom

4、e wealthy through both business ventures and inheritance (inheriting the estates of his mother-in-law, grandfather-in-law and grandmother all in one year). 1.He always left himself in a back room, and appreciated money for a long time.,2.Grandet had a servant, who had worked for 30 years. But he nev

5、er received any gift from Grandet, except one old watch. 3.After his wife died, he even seduced his daughter into giving up her inheritance of her mother. 4.When he was dying, he asked his daughter to put money on the table, and money could make him feel warm.,When the priest（神父） put the crucifix(十字

6、架) of silver-gilt（表面镀金的银） to his lips, that he might kiss the Christ, he made a frightful gesture, as if to seize it; and that last effort cost his life.,Eugenie,Kind and humane（仁慈的） She considered money as a method for helping others.,she had done a lot of public work.,she had built one restroom Ei

7、ght primary schools One library,she used money to help those who need it.,she used money to help those who need it.,Plots,1.On Eugnie Grandets (欧也妮.葛朗台) birthday, her cousin Charles comes unexpectedly. 2. Eugnie Grandet and Charles fall in love with each other, but Charles has to leave for India, as

8、 his father suicides and he becomes a poor man. We know that the old Grandet loves money , so he even regards his nephew as a burden. 3. The old Grandet plans to profit from his brothers ruin.,4. The old Grandet is angry when he discovers that Eugnie has given her money (all in gold coins) to Charle

9、s. This leads to his wife falling ill, and his daughter being confined to her room.,5. Her mother soon died of illness. After that, his father seduces her into giving up her inheritance.,6.Then,the old Grandet died.Charles comes back,but he plans to marry an aristocratic（贵族的）girl, which makes Eugnie

10、 totally heartbroken.,Finally, Eugnie decides to marry the lawyers nephew, but they arent real couple. She just wants to live freely and peacefully . Several years later, her husband died. She becomes a very wealthy widow of thirty-three having now inherited her husbands fortune. She used money to h

11、elp those who need it.,After reading the book , what do you think of it?,Money,From the novel, I could see the shadow of the real life. Especially in recent years, China has been participating in economic globalization to a deeper degree. With the economic growth, more and more people consider that

12、if you have money, you can make the devil push the millstone for you.,Their favorite motto is money talks. So the only purpose is to make money as much as possible without heart of charity and humanity. The major role in Eugenie Grandet, the old Grandet reflects phenomenon in modern China society. F

13、rom a great amount of information, some people think that Chinese people are obsessive with money very much, and they are the lovers of money. For earning money, they break the law.,However, meantime, there are still a lot of people doing charities with money. They consider money as a means for helping others, what they have done is the same as Grandets daughter did.,Of couse, nowadays we cant live without money. Its true, we should regard earning