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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,*,Unit 15 Desirees Baby,Kate Chopin,O,utline,About the author,Important works,Background Information,Warm up questions,Plot summary,Analysis,Symbols,About the authorKate Chopin (1851-1904),Born on February 8,1850 in St.Louis,Missouri.,An American regionalist writer of short stories and novels.,considered as a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century.,Important works,The Story of an Hour,(1894),The Storm,(1898),At Fault,(1890),The Awakening,(1899),Chiefly interested in capturing the flavor of Louisiana life.,Characters:Louisiana Creoles(,法国和西班牙殖民者后裔,)and Cajuns(,加拿大定居的法国人后裔,).,The major concerns:,The roles of women in society and the womans responsibilities to her family,her community,and herself.,Womens self-realization,Literacy themes,Kate Chopin had different lifestyles throughout her life.These lifestyles provided her with,insights and understanding,that permitted her to analyze late 19th century American society.Many of her stories and sketches were about her life in Louisiana and incorporated her less than typical portrayals of women as their own individuals,with wants and needs,.,Chopin may have been utilizing her creative writing skills to relay a,nonfiction point of view,regarding her belief in,the strength of women,BackgroundTerms:,Regionalist writer:,uses words or phrases peculiar to a particular region,Gender:,is both an effect of biology and a social construction.In patriarchal societies,that construction will tend to favour men over women.,Gender role:,refers to the behavioural role or quality socially and culturally sanctioned for males and females.,Gender identity:,refers to the self-awareness of ones biological,social and cultural characteristics.It is the conformation and approval of ones sexual identity.Gender identity is the internalisation of gender role,while gender role is the externalised form of gender identity;both are based on biological elements.,Femininity:,submissive,passive,mindless,emotional,sensual,fragile,nurturing,caring,relational,domestic and etc.,Masculinity:,aggressive,competitive,smart,strong-hearted,tough,rational,social,independent and etc.,Feminist consciousness:,awareness of the elements that prevent women from developing in the social institutional structure;the conscious pursuit for political and economical subjectivity in society.,Female consciousness:,natural female consciousness including the pursuit for beauty and freedom,and the awareness of self-attractiveness,self-worthiness,self-existence,self-esteem,self-enjoyment,and also the desire for intellectual,emotional and sexual fulfilment.,Three interdependent elements,are most likely to contribute to whole identity of woman:,sexuality,as a wife;,maternity,as a mother;,individuality,as a human being in universe.Only a woman with combination of these three elements in her identity might be said to have become a fully realized woman.,Feminist criticism:,examines the ways in which literature(and other cultural productions)reinforce or undermine the economical,political,social,and psychological oppression of women.,What roles did women play at Kate Chopins time?,They played the role of a fealty(孝顺的)daughter,a caring housewife,a loving mother,etc.Women were limited in domestic life and were supposed to idolize(醉心于)their children,worship their husbands and esteem it a holy privilege to efface 漠视themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels(救星).,Desirees Baby,“Dsires Babyfocuses on Kate Chopins experience with the Creoles of Louisiana,where the idea of slavery and the atmosphere of plantation life were a reality.The possibility of ones having a mixed background was not unheard of.Mulattos,those with both black and white backgrounds,were common in the Southern part of the nation.The issue of racism that the story brings up was an indispensable truth in 19th century America;the dark reality of racism is on full,raw display in this story because Chopin was not afraid to address such issues that were often suppressed and intentionally ignored in order to avoid bitter actuality,as Armand does when he refuses to believe that he is of black descent.The definition of great fiction is that which has the only true subject of human existence in its subtle,complex,true meaning,stripped of the view with which ethical and conventional standards have draped it.,Warming-up Questions:,1.In Chopins Desirees Baby,how does Armand react to the birth of the baby?,2.What effect does a third-person narrator have on our perception of Desirees Baby?,3.What is the writers goal for Desirees?,Plot summary,Dsire is the adopted daughter of Monsieur and Madame Valmond,who are wealthy French Creoles in antebellum Louisiana.Abandoned as a baby,she was discovered by Monsieur Valmond lying in the shadow of a stone pillar near the Valmond gateway.She is courted by the son of another wealthy,well-known and respected French Creole family,Armand
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