2019-2020年高中英语 Module 3 Literature-Task素材 外研版选修7.doc

2019-2020年高中英语 Module 3 Literature-Task素材 外研版选修7 Goal To learn to make a file ProceduresStep 1: Surf the Internet for related information Step 2: Make a display of your fact file More about Charles Dickens Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth on 7th February 1812, the second of eight children. His father was a government clerk who was put in prison for three months for debt. After working in a factory and his father release from prison, Dickens was sent to school. At 15, he started working in a firm of attorneys in Londons Grays Inn. Dickens taught himself shorthand and in 1834 he became a reporter for debates in Parliament for the Morning Chronicle newspaper. In 1836 he married Catherine Hogarth, with whom he had ten children. His first novel was The Pickwick Papers which became a national success. Like all of his subsequent novels, it was published serially in parts, and also very cheaply. It was only published as a plete novel later. His novels then flowed in quick succession: Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, and Barnaby Rudge. Dickens then visited America, and had a triumphant reception; however he was disillusioned by the young republic. He wrote about his experiences in America Notes. He published first, and most famous, of his Christmas BooksA Christmas Carol in 1843, followed by Martin Chuzlewit. He traveled in EuropeItaly, Switzerland and Paris in the period 18441846, and on his return wrote Dombey and Son and David Copperfield which were more serious and better planned than his earlier novels. In 1850 he founded his weekly magazine Household Words. In his later works, Dickens social criticism became stronger, and his satire more concentrated: Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend. In1858 he had separated from his wife and befriended a young actress called Ellen Terman, who may have bee his mistress. In that year, he also began an endless series of public readings of his work. From 1865 he started to bee ill, and a reading trip to America in 1867-1868 certainly didnt help his health. Dickens last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, was never pleted, as he suffered a stroke and died on 9th June, 1870.Main works: The Pickwick Papers Oliver Twist Our Mutual Friend Nicholas Nickleby The Old Curiosity Shop Barnaby Rudge Martin Chuzzlewit Dombey and Son David Copperfield Bleak House Hard Times Little Dorrit Our Mutual FriendA Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations If you want to more works, please go to dbmov/People/16372/Filmography/Oliver Twist tells the story of a poor child named Oliver Twist. He is born in a workhouse and brought up under miserable conditions. After experiencing an unhappy apprenticeship to undertaker, he runs away to London, where he falls into the hands of a gang of thieves. Then he is made to be a pickpocket. A benevolent rich old man called Mr. Brownlow rescues him and takes him home, but the thieves kidnap him and make him join them once again. A bad person named Monks, who turns out to be Oliver in the gang, in order to ruin him and obtain the whole of his fathers property. Then Oliver is made to help one of the thieves in breaking into a ladys house. He gets wounded, and es into the hands of a lady who turned out to be her aunt. Finally the thieves in the gang are punished and Olivers half brother is pelled to confess his evil doings and put into prison. Oliver is adopted by Mr. Brownlow. This novel is a powerful exposure of bourgeois society. It shows the extreme brutality and corruption of the oppressors and their agents under the mask of philanthropy. Dickens, the great critical realist gives vivid descriptions of their sufferings of the poor and oppressed. We see that Dickens, while sympathizing with the miseries of the people, did not know what or who was responsible for such miseries and even cherished illusion about rich, idle and benevolent people like Mr. Brownlow. He believed that the whole social problems would be solved if only every employer followed the example set by “good gentlemen” like Brownlow.