解读海明威的《一个干净明亮的地方》课件

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,rnest Hemingwa,1899-1961,Made by 罗贤晖、刘璁慧、苏艳辉、赵原,rnest Hemingwa1899-1961Made,1,social status,American novelist and short-story writer,One of the greatest American writers of the 20th century,.,social statusAmerican novelist,2,Works,Works,3,Short Stories:The Snows of the KilimanjaroThe Hills Like White ElephantsA Clean Well-lighted PlaceThe Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,Short Stori,4,But man is not made for defeat,a man can be destroyed but not defeated.,But man is not made for defeat,5,When he was young,When he was young,6,Spanish Civil War,Ernest,Pauline,Bumby,Patrick,and Gregory Hemingway pose with marlins after a fishing trip to Bimini in 1935,Spanish Civil War Ernest,Paul,7,When he got the Nobel Prize,When he was 60 years old,When he got the Nobel Prize W,8,Life,born in a small town called Oak Park in Illinois near Chicago,father:a successful physician,middle class,love fishing and hunting;mother:music teacher,a happy childhood;a lover of brutal sports,such as boxing and football in middle school,Though his father hoped him to be a physician,Hemingway refused to enter university.He chose to be a reporter.,During the WWI,he wanted to join the army but was refused because of his poor eyesight.Then Hemingway came to Italy to work as an ambulance driver.He was seriously wounded in the battlefield.The nightmarish war experience changed his life.,Life born in a small town call,9,After the war,he still worked as a,reporter,.He was sent to Paris and knew Pound,Gertrude Stein,Sherwood Anderson and some other famous writers who encouraged him to write.,He also worked as a,war reporter,in the Spanish Civil War and the WWII.,He is a,tough guy,with rather,masculine manner,.In all his life,he loved,tough games,such as boxing,hunting,deep-sea fishing,bullfight and so on.He was injured many times.In all the operations,237 steel fragments were taken out from Hemingways body.He also suffered 3 car accidents and 2 air crushes.He was admired as a hero by lots of people and his life style was imitated.,In 1961,Hemingway shot himself with gun in his home.,After the war,he still worked,10,解读海明威的一个干净明亮的地方课件,11,Early Themethe Lost Generation,1.,Definition Its a term coined by Gertrude Stein and Hemingway quoted it on the title page of The Sun Also Rises”You are all a lost generation”.Since then it is used to refer to the post-war generation who are devoid of religious and traditional values,exist only for feverish sensuality or are sustained only by their personal honor.,Leading figures:,Hemingway,William Faulkner,John Dos Passos,and,F.S.Fitzgerald,.,Early Themethe Lost Generatio,12,2.The Causes of their Lost,1)Development of science and technology,which outdates religion and traditional values.,2)development of humanity and individualism as a result of social development.,3)the WWIfurther destroyed peoples faith in traditional values.,2.The Causes of their Lost,13,Later Themes,1 Code Hero,2.Grace under Pressure,3.A Narcissistic and Tragic View of Life,Later Themes1 Code Hero,14,Stylistic Features,1.General features:,simple,fresh,clear diction,declarative sentences,antiphonal repetition and variation,concentration,understatement,2.Iceberg Principle or Style,The“dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water”.His style has the kind of mechanism enabling readers to perceive more than what he says.,3.Metonymy as the Chief Device,Stylistic Features 1.General,15,The Lost Generation,The term“lost generation”was coined by,Gertrude Stein,a lost generation writer herself,after World War I.It was between the first and second World Wars.Speaking to Ernest Hemingway,she said,you are all a lost generation.,The Lost GenerationThe term“,16,A Clean,Well-Lighted Place,Ernest Hemingway,A Clean,Well-Lighted Place,17,INTRODUCTION,“A Clean,Well-Lighted Place”is considered a prime example of Hemingways craftsmanship and insight into the human condition.In this brief story,which was initially published in,Scribners Magazine,in 1933,he evoked an atmosphere of,despair and loneliness,almost entirely with dialogue and interior monologue.,INTRODUCTION“A Clean,Well-Lig,18,Through these stylistic techniques Hemingway renders a complex series of interactions between an old waiter and his young colleague as the two men reflect on the,ephemeral nature of happiness and the inevitability of death.,Much of the critical commentary on the short story focuses on a series of unattributed lines of dialogue.,Through these stylistic techni,19,Plot and Major Characters,Rendered almost completely in dialogue,the main action of“A Clean,Well-Lighted Place”is set in a small caf in Spain,as two waiters prepare to close the establishment for the night.The place is empty except for a regular customer,a deaf old man drinking alone at one of the tables.Realizing that the old man is drunk,one of the waiters informs the other that the customer attempted suicide the week before.After the waiters watch a young man and woman pass on the street,the young waiter serves the old customer another brandy and voices his impatience to the old waiter,complaining that the old man is keeping him from his warm bed and the comfort of his wife.,Plot and Major Characters Rend,20,They discuss the old mans suicide attempt and his possible reasons for such a desperate act.When the old man gestures for another brandy,the young waiter tells him that it is closing time.After the old man pays his bill and leaves,the old waiter chides the young waiter for his,lack of patience and empathy,for the old man.He compares himself to the man,saying he understands the need for a clean,well-lighted place to be at night.After the caf closes,the old waiter stops at a bar for a drink before he goes home,dreading his return to an empty room.,They discuss the old mans sui,21,CHARACTERS,The old man:,rich,life was meaningless for him,committed suicide,drank excessively.,The middle-aged waiter:,sympathetic,realized that youth,love and passion must be followed by aging,despair and nothing.He also looked for order and meaning by staying in the clean,well-lighted cage,experiencing nothing.,The young waiter:,eager to go back home,confident and ignorant of truth of life.,CHARACTERSThe old man:rich,l,22,Major Themes,light and dark,(,Light and Shadows),clean and dirty,noisy and quiet,youth and age,nihilism and religious idealism,Major Themeslight and dark(Li,23,Waiter A VS Waiter B,=Youth VS Old age,=Man VS Time,Waiter A VS Waiter B=Youth VS,24,Plenty money VS Loniness,=Successful VS Unhappiness,Plenty money VS Loniness=S,25,QUESTION?,NADA,NADA,NADA,QUESTION?NADANADANADA,26,Nothing(nada),through the old mans unsuccessful suicide and the middle-aged mans soliloquy.,Nada,means hopelessness,aimlessness and meaninglessness of life,Nothing(nada)through the old,27,The,middle aged waiter,knew the old mans today was his tomorrow.,The,young waiter,lived in Nada as well,even if he did not realize it.,The middle aged waiter knew th,28,the consciousness of absurdity,the consciousness of death,the awareness of bitterness,the consciousness of absurdit,29,The End.,Thank you!,The End.Thank you!,30,