Blackmail.ppt

1、Lesson 6,Blackmail Arthur Hailey,09级英本2班 卢丛,Introduction of the author,Arthur Hailey born and educated in Britain. 1939, RAF, emigrated to Canada 1949.He is well known as a top of best-seller and industry novelist.,Arthurs writing feathers,He is good at transferring the daily story into a detective

2、novel . Under the background of competition in finance and hotel business, the author always depict the hero as manager or doctor.,Arthurs work list The last diagnose，published in 1959。 Hotel， published in 1965。 Airport， published in 1968 City of automobile， published in 1971。 The moneychanger， publ

3、ished in 1975。 Strong medicine， published in 1984。 Evening news， published in 1990。,The novel was adapted into a movie in 1967, and later into a television series,Background of Hotel,Hotel is a 1965 novel by Arthur Hailey. It is the story of an independent New Orleans hotel, the St. Gregory, and its

4、 managements struggle to regain profitability and avoid being assimilated into the OKeefe chain of hotels. The St. Gregory is supposedly based on the Roosevelt Hotel.,Main character of the novel:,Characters : Peter McDermott : manager Warren Trent, proprietor Christine Francis :secretary to Warren T

5、rent Aloysius Royce :administrative assistant to Warren Trent Curtis OKeefe : owner of the OKeefe chain Dorothy DodoLash :OKeefes starlet companion,Characters of the novel:,Ogilvie: chief house detective the Duke of Croydon: newly appointed British ambassador to the United States the Duchess of Croy

6、don: wife of the Duke Albert Wells : aging hotel guest Julius Keycase Milne: hotel thief,Character Analysis,A. The description of Ogilvie (notice that the name itself sounds awkward, awful): 1. Appearance: fat, piggy eyes, gross jowled face, obese body, incongruous falsetto voice, moving with surpri

7、sing speed,Character Analysis,2. Character: at first rude, sardonic, self-assured, shameless greedy, but finally subservient the way he deals with the cigar sardonically,Character Analysis,B. The description of the Duchess 1. Appearance: pale cheek with two high points, gray-green eyes,Character Ana

8、lysis,2. Character: imperious, three centuries and a half of inbred arrogance, decisive, vigilant, very quick in response,Character Analysis,C. The description of the Duke 1. Appearance: attempt to square his shoulders but failed,Character Analysis,2. Character: uncertain, ready to compromise, passi

9、ve, despairingly, “Thats interesting, I didnt know that.” The duke spoke as if he was speaking of sb. unrelated to the whole thing.,Rhetoric,Metaphor: .the nerves of both . were excessively frayed his wife shot him a swift, warning glance. The words spat forth with sudden savagery. Ill spell it out.,Rhetoric,Euphemism: .and you took a lady friend.,Metonymy: won 100 at the