Emily Bronte介绍英语作业.ppt

1、Emily Bronte(18181848),The author,Emily Bronte was an English novelist and poet .now best remembered for her only novel ,Wuthering Heights. a classical of English literature.,Her influence,Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights took the literary world by storm when it was published in 1847. There had never

2、 been a novel like it, and it continues to cast a powerful spell over readers to this day. This book takes extracts and examines them in close detail to explore how Bronte achieves her effects and to inquire into the significance of her characters and fable. The reader is taught to explore and appre

3、ciate the love-tragedy of Catherine and Heathcliff, the resonant images and symbols of the text, and the complex way the story is told.,Emily Bront was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, in the north of England. Her father was the rector of Hawort from 1820. After their mother died in 1821, the children s

4、pent most of their time in reading and composition. To escape their unhappy childhood, Anne, Emily, Charlotte and their brother Branwell created imaginary worlds - perhaps inspired by Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels (1726). Emily and Anne created their own Gondal saga, and Bramwell and Charlotte r

5、ecorded their stories about the kingdom of Angria in minute notebooks. Between the years 1824 and 1825 Emily attended the school at Cowan Bridge with Charlotte, and then was largely educated at home. Her fathers bookshelf offered a variety of reading: the Bible, Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton, B

6、yron, Scott and many others. The children also read enthusiastically articles on current affairs and intellectual disputes in Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Frasers Magazine, and Edinburgh Review.,Life experience,In 1835 Emily Bront was at Roe Head, but suffered from homesickness and returned after

7、a few months to the moorland scenery of home. In 1837 she became a governess at Law Hill, near Halifax, where she spent six months. To facilitate their plan to keep school for girls, Emily and Charlotte Bront went in 1842 to Brussels to learn foreign languages and school management. Emily returned o

8、n the same year to Haworth, where she stayed for the rest of her brief life.,Unlike Charlotte, Emily had no close friends. She wrote a few letters and was interested in mysticism. Her first novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), a story-within-a-story, did not gain immediate success as Charlottes Jane Eyr

9、e, but it has acclaimed later fame as one of the most intense novels written in the English language. In contrast to Charlotte and Anne, whose novels take the form of autobiographies written by authoritative and reliable narrators, Emily introduced an unreliable narrator, Lockwood. He constantly mis

10、interprets the reactions and interactions of the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights. More reliable is Nelly Dean, his housekeeper, who has lived for two generations with the novels two principal families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons.,Emily Bront died of tuberculosis in the late 1848. She had caught

11、cold at her brother Branwells funeral in September. After the appearance of Wuthering Heighs, some skeptics maintained that the book was written by Branwell, on the grounds that no woman from such circumscribed life, could have written such passionate story. In 1848 Charlotte and Anne visited George

12、 Smith to reveal their identity and to help quell rumors that a single author lay behind the pseudonyms. After her sisters deaths, Charlotte edited a second edition of their novels, with prefatory commentary aimed at correcting what she saw as the reviewers misunderstanding of Wuthering Heights. The

13、 complex time scheme of the novel had been taken as evidence by the critics, that Emily had not achieved full formal control over her narrative materials. However, her model in layering narrative within narrative may have been Mary Shelleys Frankenstein (1818). Emilys refusal to reduce ambiguity to

14、simplistic clarity did not have any immediate influence on the novel form until Wilkie Collins experimented with multivocal first-person narratives in such works as The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868).,Her works,Wuthering Heights Poem Cold in the earthand the deep snow piled above the

15、e, Far, far removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last by Times all-severing wave?,The linnet in the rocky dells, The moor-lark in the air, The bee among the heather bells That hide my lady fair: The wild deer browse above her breast; The wild birds

16、 raise their brood; And they, her smiles of love caressed, Have left her solitude!,Wuthering Heights,Emily Jane Bront (pronounced /brnti/ or /brnte/)1 (30 July 1818 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet, now best remembered for her novel Wuthering Heights, a classic of English literatur

17、e. Emily was the second eldest of the three surviving Bront sisters, between Charlotte and Anne. She published under the androgynous pen name Ellis Bell.,The content of the story,Its a story about love and revenge . Heathcilff was adopted by Mr Earnshaw on the Livepool Street .He live with Mr Earnsh

18、aw s son Hindly and his daughter Cathy.Hindley hated Heathcilff but his sister like Heathcilff.After Earnshaw died ,Hindley become the host of the family ,he treated Heathcliff as a farmer and insult him .,At the same time ,Cathy and Heathcliff love each other.Linton ,the son of Thrushcross Grange,p

19、ay court to Cathy ,and visit her very often .Cathy made up her mind to get married with him,Heathcliff was very angry and went out.Heathcliff came back with a lot of money. He cheated Hindleybelongings by gambling.He did the things all for revenge.He married Lintonsiston Isabella,Cathy died after she gave a birth to little Catherine.Isabella discerned Heathcliff and left him .She procreated little Linton and died .Heathcliff spoliated little Linton and badgered him to love l