英美短篇小 说Unit 5 The Shadow in the Rose Garden

,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 5:The Shadow in the Rose Garden,D.H.Lawrence(1885-1930),Major works,The White Peacock(1910),Sons and Lovers(1913),The Rainbow(1915),Women in Love(1921),Lady Chatterleys Lover(1928),Major themes,Relationship between men and women,Criticism of the modern world of money and machines,Oedipus complex,A Strong Reaction against the Mechanical Civilization,The dehumanizing effect of mechanical civilization on the sensual tenderness of human nature,Passionate Love for Nature,Strongly advocated a return to nature,to a primitive way of life.,Man can derive energy,power and a dark sort of joy only by getting his life into contact with the elemental life of the cosmos,by keeping a harmonious relationship with nature.,Psychological Penetration,Reveal the deepest instincts of human nature,Dark self-active unconsciousness-the true source of passion,White self-social ego,Human Relationship-chief concern,The core of his writing is to make this relationship free and healthy.,In all his life,he had been seeking the idealistic human relationship.,To him,balance,not dominance,is the best guiding principle in the relationship-“star-polarity.,Frank discussion of sex,Style,Fusion of realism and modernism,Traditional-form,Innovative-combining psychic exploration with social criticism,Rich symbolic images,Combine dramatic scenes with an authorial commentary,The symbolism in The Shadow in the Rose Garden,1.“The Stag at Bay,The husband of the heroine gave careful but hostile attention to“The Stag at Bay.This picture is from Sir Edwin Landseer,his work always themed by sad animals.He was just like the sad stag in the picture,he felt depressed and self-abased.Thats why he gave careful but hostile attention.,2.“shadow,In this story,the word“shadow occurred through the story,totally six times.In this story,the shadow was always together with the heroine.At first she told his husband not to say anything about who she is or that she used to live here to anybody in this village.I think its not hard to understand that she was still live in the shadow of past.She was afraid of mentioning the past,but meanwhile she tried to find the feeling of the past.She was so complicated and hard to extricate herself.,“A shadow seemed to go over her,we could learn that the heroine was drowned in her own sorrow.Her romantic story was forever lost,her lover who was gentle and handsome became a mental patient,and her present life is pale,all these thing s are shadow of her.,“shadow in the story could be somewhere under the tree where the lovers once dated in the garden,could be her lovers figure in her heart,could be her lost love,could be her doomed marriage.,3.rose,Roses represent for love,When she was touching these roses,she was touching her memory of love and recalling the beautiful days,as if she was touching her lover.She went at last to a tiny terrace all full of roses,and later became one of them,she lost herself among the roses.“She was no more than a rose,a rose that could not quite come into blossom,but remained tense.The moving moment for a rose is when it blossoms,but she could not quite come into blossom.It symbolized the disappear of her love and good times.Here rose in two colors remind me of Zhang Ailings work white rose and red rose as she said,these two different roses were two different women,also two different temperaments.The heroine touched the red rose and she became a white rose herself,she was a white rose for she was not passionate and intense which“red can provided,her life was pale and dull at present,she was not interested in her husband or her life now.,Theme of The shadow in the Rose Garden,小说开头对男女主人公的动作和神态的描写就暗示出这对夫妻间的关系不和谐。从他们的第一次对话就可以感知他们之间的冷漠。夫妻之间缺乏了解与信任，婚姻中潜伏着危机。是什么导致这场婚姻的失败的呢？一方面夫妻间缺乏了解与信任，另一方面，当时社会的等级观念和夫妻间的阶级差异造就了不幸的婚姻。而根本原因在于19世纪末20世纪初人类社会的空虚与急躁，使人们不能正视一些问题而被虚荣这一大手控制命运。,Other works:Sons and Lovers,The abnormal love brings about a splitting personality in Paul,which in turn produces paralyzing effects on his relationships with other women like Miriam and Clare.,Themes,The dehumanizing effect of the industrialization,The complexity of human relationships,The emotional possession of one person by another,The spiritual liberation of the protagonist in search for identity and fulfillment as an artist,Paul,consciously or unconsciously,tries his best to keep his soul independent;he struggles frenziedly to break away from the possessive ties that have been strangling him.,This psychic conflict in human relationships is the central theme of,Sons and Lovers,.,Structure,1.,The nature of human relationships-three destructive forms of love:,The oedipal love between Paul and his mother;,The spiritual love between Paul and Miriam;,The physical love between Paul and Clare,Wave pattern-the rhythmic rise and fall of the heros emotions,Paul fights desperately against the dominant mother and the possessive girl friends to keep his soul independent