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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,*,*,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,*,*,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,*,*,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,*,*,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,*,*,Vanity Fair,Vanity Fair,was published in numbers 1847,8, illustrated by the author himself.,A Brief Introduction,The story is set at the time of the Napoleonic wars, and gives a satirical picture of a worldly society, which Thackeray intended to be applied also to his own times.,It follows the fortunes of two sharply contrasted characters.,2024/10/1,1,Rebecca (Becky) Sharp is the penniless orphaned daughter of an artist and a French opera dancer, and Amelia Sedley is the sheltered child of a rich City merchant.,The two girls, as unlike in character as they are in fortune, have been educated at Miss Pinkertons Academy for young ladies.,2024/10/1,2,Becky, having failed to force a proposal of marriage from Amelias brother Jos, becomes governess to the children of Sir Pitt Crawley, a coarse, brutal old man who bullies his fading second wife.,Becky manages to charm the Crawley family, and becomes a favourite of Miss Crawley, Sir Pitts rich and capricious sister.,2024/10/1,3,When his wife dies Sir Pitt proposes to Becky, but she has to confess that she is already married, to his younger son Rawdon. The couple abruptly fall from favour with Miss Crawley, and have to live on Beckys wits.,Amelias apparently secure life has been disrupted. Her father has lost all his money, and her engagement to George Osborne, the handsome but vain and shallow son of another City magnate, has been broken off in consequence.,2024/10/1,4,Mr. Osborne disinherits his son George, Rawdon, and Dobbin are all in the army, and Amelia and Becky accompany their husbands to Belgium, where Becky carries on an intrigue with George. George is killed at Waterloo, and Amelia, with her baby son Georgy, goes to live in poverty with her parents.,William Dobbin, Georges awkward, loyal friend, who is secretly in love with Amelia, persuades George to defy his father and go on with the marriage.,2024/10/1,5,Amelias devotion to her son is contrasted with Beckys neglect of hers, but she is finally forced by poverty to part with Georgy to his grandfather. Dobbin, despairing of ever winning Amelias love, for she is dedicated to the memory of her husband, has spent ten years in India.,2024/10/1,6,Becky and Rawdon manage to make a brilliant display in London society on “nothing a year.”,Becky and Rawdon part after Rawdon has discovered his wife in a compromising situation with Lord Steyne, who has, it turns out, been paying for Beckys extravagances.,2024/10/1,7,Becky leads a disreputable life on the Continent, and it is hinted that she may be responsible for the death of Jos, who has insured his life in her favour. Rawdon, who has become governor of Coventry Island, dies of fever.,Amelia steadfastly refuses to marry Dobbin until meeting Becky, who tells her of Georges infidelity. Disillusioned, she marries Dobbin, but by then his love for her has lost much of its intensity.,2024/10/1,8,Based on the writers penetrating observation of human nature, the book exposes all aspects of it: people are weak and vain, self-absorbed, self-deceived. Three kinds of people are shown and criticized here:,social climbers,snobs,and,egotists,.,By tracing the interweaving destinies of two contrasted heroines during the period of Waterloo and its aftermath, the novel is a vast,satirical panorama,of a materialistic society,.,2024/10/1,9,Vanity Fair,is given a subtitle “,A Novel Without a Hero,.” This can be understood in two ways:,First, we may consider (Becky) Sharp and Amelia as the most important characters in the novel, that is to say, there are only two heroines.,Second, Sharp and Amelia cant be seen as heroines, either, because Sharp seems too evil a character and Amelia appears too pale.,2024/10/1,10,In spite of this, the characters are portrayed vividly, especially Sharp and Amelia. They are described in sharp contrast: from their family backgrounds to their later life; from their attitude toward love and marriage to their way of dealing with men, and others.,2024/10/1,11,Satire,is the most distinguishing feature of the novel. The reader can find satire everywhere from the title to descriptions and portrayal of characters, from the authors comments to the narrations of the characters life.,Movie:,The writer achieves satire by the use of certain names, such as Miss Toady, Mr. Flower Dew, Mrs. High Flyer, etc; by giving humourous situations; and by creating irony.,2024/10/1,12,The Brontes,A Brief Introduction,Of all Victorian literary names none has so proved its power to excite curiosity, stir romantic and dramatic imaginations, evoke chatter and personal discussion, as has the name of Bronte. The family story literally told makes a novel in itself; indeed it furnished the matter of the novels which the family produced.,2024/10/1,13,Patrick Prunty, which name he himself glorified as “Bronte,” came out of North Ireland, studied at Cambridge, and was led by his clerical fate to serve in the harsh moorlands of Yorkshire.,He was spirited, high-tempered, tender-hearted, and rather fourth-rate in his literary performance. At thirty-five he married a gentle Miss Branwell from the South.,2024/10/1,14,They have six children Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne. They were all exceptional; four at least were highly talented, and two of them, Charlotte and Emily, were geniuses.,The Bronte children, especially Emily, loved and consorted with the moors, until the wild spirit of the place, at once alluring and inscrutable, became a part of their nature and their art.,2024/10/1,15,Even as children, the girls had suffered in cheerless boarding-schools; as young women Anne and Charlotte endured even more as governesses of young barbarians.,Emily, mystic, stoical, and self-contained but not enterprising, roamed the moors and poured out her flaming soul in secret song, whose music is the very sound of the strong upland winds.,2024/10/1,16,Charlotte, small, energetic, brave, was the captain of this little band. Though she and Anne hated teaching, at twenty-six she conceived the scheme of starting a school.,To equip herself with French and other languages, she spent a year and a half in Brussels, in the school of Paul Heger and his wife part of the time teaching.,2024/10/1,17,With Paul, small, dark, irascible, but winning, and always kind to her, she fell in love; and crushing this secret and hopeless agony down in her heart, she came home to launch the new venture. Not a pupil appeared.,She then discovered Emilys poems, and with her own and Annes made up the famous little still-born volume, now a prize of collectors,Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell,.,2024/10/1,18,Charlotte was now used to defeat, but not to accepting defeat. Bravely she and her sisters set to work on novels, she on,The Professor, Anne on,Agnes Grey, and Emily on,Wuthering Heights,.,This was no longer the tale-spinning of their youth, but serious business. For more than a year the novels wandered about in disguise of male authorship from one indifferent publisher to another.,2024/10/1,19,Meanwhile, Charlotte left her drunken brother at home, to take her father to Manchester for the removal of cataracts, and momentously beguiled the hours of watching by beginning,Jane Eyre,.,A year later it found an instant publisher, and instant and overwhelming success.,2024/10/1,20,This is not to be explained by the bare plot, which, though it ferments with a bit of sensation and what to the Victorian taste was scandal, is full of impossibilities.,Yet its essential reality has made it a great classic. For the Bronte novels are a compound of the wild imaginations of the Bronte girlhood and the hard and bitter circumstance and disillusion of their lives.,2024/10/1,21,Jane Eyre,and all the rest are fine mosaics of a thousand actual incidents, places, persons they knew, and Bronte devotees never tire of tracing and identifying them.,Jane herself is Charlotte, little, long-suffering, shy, repressed, a smouldering volcano of passion beneath. Rochester is the tortured and pitiful soul living only in her imagination, to whom she longed to devote herself.,2024/10/1,22,Indeed all her work is intense with the pressure of strong feeling beneath the surface, which clothes it in a kind of fascinating mystery not the theatrical mystery of Byron, nor the mystery of suspense, though there is a touch of both but the mystery at bottom of the reticent, thwarted, disillusioned, brave woman who tells the tales.,2024/10/1,23,Even after,Jane Eyre,the sisters had to share the expense of publishing,Wuthering Heights, and recognition of its worth came slowly.,The reader cannot accept its unrelieved career of madness and misery as a copy of real life. Rather it is like a musical or poetic transcription of the strange inscrutable spirit of Emily herself.,2024/10/1,24,The untamed, disordered, overwhelming powers of the moor become incarnate, and merge themselves indistinguishably with human life.,The dark expanse is lightened at moments with the tender and unearthly light of a love affair almost heroic in depth and grandeur.,2024/10/1,25,She had idolized,Thackeray, but, after her habit, was inclined to disillusionment when she met him.,With Charlottes fame began her visits to London, and acquaintance with the literary great.,2024/10/1,26,The story of the grand dinner of celebrities he gave in her honor, and its collapse into such dullness that even the host deserted, is too well-known to repeat. She was too shy and too critical to be made a lion.,2024/10/1,27,In the meantime she had begun,Shirley, a story involved with the riots of labor against machinery, and portraying Emily in the title-role.,Composition dragged on through what must have been the culminating trouble of her life, for in the eight months between September, 1848, and May, 1849, she lost her brother and both gifted sisters.,Shirley,was followed in three years by,Villette,(1853), containing matter from her earlier story,The Professor,.,2024/10/1,28,She received several offers of marriage from clerics which she refused, probably because of her strange feminine irony. Oddly enough the one to win her heart when she was thirty-eight, was her fathers curate, Arthur Nicholls. He was a fine and gentle soul, but with a touch of Rochesters passion in his wooing.,2024/10/1,29,After all the bitter and thwarted years, it seemed at last as if her suppressed dream had come true, and her pent-up feelings were to find happy release. Over her last letters falls a new and sober sweetness alien to her earlier writings. Nine months after her marriage her new life sank quite suddenly to its close.,2024/10/1,30,Wuthering Heights,A Brief Introduction,The story is narrated by Lockwood, temporary tenant of Thrushcross Grange, who at the opening of the novel stumbles unsuspectingly into the violent world of Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord Heathcliff. The narration is taken up by the housekeeper, Nelly Dean.,2024/10/1,31,She had been witness of the interlocked destinies of the original owners of the Heights, the Earnshaw family, and of the Grange, the Linton family.,In a series of brilliantly handled flashbacks and time shifts, Emily Bronte unfolds a tale of exceptional emotional and imaginative force.,2024/10/1,32,Events are set in motion by the arrival at the Heights of Heathcliff, picked up as a waif of unknown parentage in the streets of Liverpool by the elder Earnshaw, who brings him home to bring up as one of his own children.,2024/10/1,33,Bullied and humiliated after Earnshaws death by his son Hindley, Heathcliffs passionate and ferocious nature finds its complement in Earnshaws daughter Catherine. Their childhood collusions develop into an increasingly intense though vexed attachment.,2024/10/1,34,Heathcliff overhearing Catherine tell Nelly that she cannot marry him because it would degrade her, and failing to stay to hear her declare her passion for him, leaves the house.,2024/10/1,35,He returns three years later, mysteriously enriched, to find Catherine married to the insignificant Edgar Linton. Heathcliff is welcomed by Hindley, by now widowed with a son, Hareton, and a hardened gambler.,Heathcliffs destructive force is now unleashed; he marries Edgars sister Isabella and cruelly ill-treats her, hastens Catherines death by his passion as she is about to give birth to a daughter, Cathy.,2024/10/1,36,He brings Hareton and Hindley under his power, brutalizing the latter in revenge for Hindleys treatment of himself as a child. Edgar dies after doing his best to prevent a friendship between Cathy and Heathcliffs son Linton.,Heathcliff has lured Cathy to his house, and forces a marriage between her and young Linton in order to secure the union properly.,2024/10/1,37,Linton, always sickly, also dies, and an affection springs up between her, an unwilling prisoner at the Heights, and the ignorant Hareton, whom she does her best to educate. Heathcliffs desire for revenge has now worn itself out, and he longs for the death that will reunite him with Catherine.,2024/10/1,38,Love,and,revenge,are two main themes of the novel. Through the tempestuous love story, the author seems to be telling us the truth that love will overcome hatred.,At his death there is a promise that the two contrasting worlds and moral orders represented by the Heights and the Grange will be united in the next generation, in the union of Cathy and Hareton.,2024/10/1,39,In the theme of revenge, we may find the influence of,racial discrimination,and,class discrimination,. Heathcliffs revolt or revenge is not his own.,We may consider him to be one representative of those people in a lower social position. Heathcliff, the hero, is depicted successfully in that he is a round character, with changes and development.,2024/10/1,40,Of primitive vitality, he is like lightening, fire and rock to Catherine. After Catherines marriage, he becomes a conscious rebel and a spirit of the revolt against injustice.,Catherine is contradictory in herself: she loves Heathcliff the orphan but chooses to marry Edgar, who has social status but is like moon beam and frost. Thus her tragedy is caused by her own vanity. She betrays Heathcliff and kills herself.,2024/10/1,41,The two narrators are important: Nelly has seen the two generations growth and gives them warnings and suggestions every now and then. Lockwood is a conservative gentleman.,The story is told in a perspective that is between the first and the third person narration. In this way, everything seems more believable and the structure of the book is complete.,2024/10/1,42,Selected Reading,Wuthering Heights,: chapter 15,Movie:,They are of common peoples viewpoints and find it difficult to understand the love between Heathcliff and Catherine. This helps to show the main characters feelings.,The selection here, Chapter 15, is about the last time Heathcliff and Catherine meet each other. Their intense love is vividly described.,2024/10/1,43,Jane Eyre,A Brief Introduction,The heroine, a penniless orphan, has been left to the care of her aunt Mrs. Reed. Harsh and unsympathetic treatment rouses her defiant spirit, and a passionate outbreak leads to her consignment to Lowood Institution (based on Cowan Bridge, which the author herself briefly attended).,2024/10/1,44,There, consoled for the severity of the regime by the kindness of Miss Temple and a fellow orphan, Helen Burns, who dies in Janes arms of consumption, she spends some miserable years, eventually becoming a teacher.,On Miss Temples marriage she obtains a post as governess at Thornfield Hall to Adele, the illegitimate daughter of Mr. Rochester, a Byronic hero of grim aspect and sardonic temper.,2024/10/1,45,After much resistance she agrees to marry him, but on the eve of their wedding her wedding veil is rent by an intruder who Rochester assures her is a servant, Grace Poole, but who is the next day revealed to be his mad wife Creole Bertha, confined to the upper regions of the Hall for years, whose unseen presence has long disturbed Jane.,Rochester, despite Janes plainness, is fascinated by her sharp wit and independence, and they fall in love.,2024/10/1,46,The marriage ceremony is interrupted by Mrs. Rochesters brother from the West Indies and, despite Rochesters full confession and pleadings with Jane to stay with him, she flees.,After nearly perishing on the moors, she is taken in and cared for by the Revd St John Rivers and his sisters Mary and Diana.,2024/10/1,47,It emerges that they are her cousins, and that Jane has inherited money from an uncle; the legacy is equally divided between the four. Under pressure from the earnest appeals and strong personality of the dedicated Rivers, she nearly consents to marry him and share his missionary vocation in India.,2024/10/1,48,But she is prevented by a telepathic appeal from Rochester. She returns to Thornfield Hall to find the building burned.,Rochester blinded and maimed from his attempt to save his wife from the flames. She marries him, and in the last chapter we learn that his sight is partially restored.,2024/10/1,49,From its first publication, the novels,exceptional emotional,and,narrative power,made it a success, though, despite its strict adherence to conventional moral standards, it was considered by many to be unsuitable for young ladies.,2024/10/1,50,Jane Eyre, plain-looking but full of emotion, is a rebellious woman character striving for freedom and equal social status with men. And,womens freedom,and,equal social status with men,is one important theme of the novel. This theme is expressed in the narration of Janes life in different period of her life.,Selected Reading:,Jane Eyre,: chapter 5,Movie:,2024/10/1,51,