his life that the boy(Oliver Twist)had ever been kindly greeted;Yet,to him strange sounds may predict suffering.
.Do you think Heathciff 's above accusation of Catherine 's betrayal can be
justified?If you think so ,what reasons and their love?
does Catherine have to betray heathcliff
A.Heathcliff 's accusation can be justified. B.The reasons of her betrayal may be:(1)The fancy she felt for linton 's pleasant personality,his rich knowledge,and his elegant manners.(2)Her vainglory made her desire a kind of upperclass life and social status.(3)She was afraid that she might suffer poverty and be degraded if she had got married to Heathecliff.(4)She fancied if she got married to linton,she might have the means to help heathecliff in getting a good education and becoming a gentleman so that they could be united without being degraded.
Why is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte a successful novel?
.1.The story opens with the titular heroine, Jane Eyre,a plain little orphan.2.This novel sharply
criticize theexisting society,e.g.the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions,the social discrimi-nation Jane experiences and the false social convention as concerning love and marriage.
3.The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine Jane Eyre.4.It is an intense moral fable at the same time.Jans,like Mr.Rochester,hasto undergo a series of physical and mor-al tests to grow up and achieve her final happiness.
.Based on Jane Eyre byCharlotte Bronte,discuss the theme of her works,the image of woman protagonists and the comprehensive sense for contemporary society.
1.Charlotte w'orsks are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards
self-realization,about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love,understanding and a full,happy life.2.All her heroines of self or some
human weakness overcome.3.The image of woman protagonists in her works ' highest joys arises are mostly that of the middle-class working women,particularly governesses
with strong feelings,fiery passions and some extraordinary personalities.4.Her works present a vivid realistic picture of the
English society by exposing the cruelty,hypocrisy and other evils of the upper classes,andby showing the misery and suffering of the poor.Especially in Jane Eyre,she sharply criticizes the existing society, e.g.religious hypocrisy of charity institutions.
． Analyze the character of Jane Eyre based on the selection taken from chapter xx 3 of
Jane eyre.
1.Jane Eyre, an orphan child with a fiery spirit and a longing to love and be loved,a
poor,plain ,little governess who dares to love her master.2.InChapterX X 3,Jane finds herself hopelessly in love with Mr. Rochester bat she is aware that her love is out of the question.When forced to confront Mr. Rochester,she desperateldand openly declaresher equalitywith him and love for him.
.How are naturalism and criticism reflected in Hardy
's novels?
1.In his works,man is shown inevitably bound by his own inherent nature and hereditary traits
which prompt him to go and search for some specific happiness or success and set him in conflict with the environment.The outside nature the natural environment or nature herself ---is shown as some mysterious supernatural force,very powerful but half-blind,impulsive and uncaring to rhe individual ' swill,hope,passion or suffering.2.Though naturalisms etoe have played an important part in Hary ' sworks,theries also bitter and sharp criticism and even open challenge of the irrational,hypocritical and unfair Victorian institutions,conventionsand morals which strangle the individual will and destroy natural human emotions and relationships.
. Try to discuss the fate of Tess in this work. Thomas Hardy
Tess is a beautiful,innocent peasant girl.the poverty of the family forces her to claim kinship with the sham but rich Urbervilles.Alec,the young master of the Urbervilles,a dandy,seduces Tess and impregnates her .Tess returns home and later gives birth to a baby,who dies soon.people forces Tess to leave home to work on a dairy farm.there she meets Angel Clare,son of a clergyman. The two fallin love with each other.On their wedding night ,Angle makes a confession about his past dissipation and readily forgiven by Tess,but when Tess reveals her own past,Angel just wouldn 't forgive her and deserts her that very night.helpless and hopeless,Tess has todewrafnrom place to place,doing the hardest work and bearing the harshest insult.when her father 'desath
transfers the whole burden of the family on her,she is forced to go back to Alec,now a
preacher.before long,the repentant Angel returns from abroad,Tess,puttingall the blames of her unhappiness on Alec,kills him.she flees with Angel but is caught by the police and hanged.Hardy created the heroine Tess in Tess of the Durbervilles just to criticize the society in his time.Tess is a tragic person simply because she is not accepted by the society in which agriculture is menaced by the forces of invading capitalism.so in a way,we say,Tess
' sfate is decided by he
． It is said that B.Shaw 'splay,Mrs.Warren 's Profession,has a
strong realistic theme,which fully reflects the dramatist 's Fabianist idea.Try to summarize
this theme briefly.
A.As one of the influential members of the Fabian Society,Shaw regarded the establishment of socialism by the emancipation of land and industrial capital from individual and class ownership as the final goal.B.As a realistic dramatist, he took the modern social issues as his subjects.Most of his plays are concerned with political,economic,moral,or religious problems.C.Mrs.Warren's profession is a play about the economic oppression of women.
. Brief the features of Bernard shaw
s works.
1.His playwrights have a variety of subjects.His early plays were mainly concerned witth social problems and direct-ed towards the critcism of the contemporary social,economic,moral and religious evils.2.Stucturally and thematically,Shaw followed the great traditions of realism.As a realistic dramatist,he took the mod-ern social issues as his subjects with the aim of directing social reforms.3.One feature of Shaw is characterization is that makes the trick of showing up one character vividly at the expense of another.Another feature is that Shaw is characters are the representativesof ideas and points of view.4.Much of Shavian drama is construced around the inversion of a conventional theatrical situation.
.Based on Hawthorne is work The Scarlet Letter,discuss the characters of his writings.
1.The structure and the form of his writings are always carefully worked out to cater for the thematic concern。2.He is good at exploring the compiexity of human psychoiogy.3.There isnt
much action,or physical movement going on in his works.4.He emphasizes psychological aspect of human beings.5.The symbol Can be found everywhere in his writing.6.His writing is usually ambiguous for the indrnite interpretation of symbols.
.what is the theme of ”the “Young Goodman Brown ”?Give examples from the story to show hawthorne 's masterful use of symbolism.
The theme of the story is the concern of guit and evil.Take the name of the hero,brown for example.it stands for everymam in the society.
.Try to discuss the theme of Young Goodman Brown.( Nathaniel Hawthorne)
1.Young Goodman Brown is essentially an allegory.It is concerned with a young puritan who
attends a witches ' Sabbath in the woods.2.Browning ' s poetry is not earhsythtomrse adre.Hisoften too fast,too rough and unmusical.The syntax is
ususlly clipped and highly compressed. The similes and illustrations appear too profusely.3. The allusions and implications are sometimes odd and farfetched. All this makes up his obscurity.4.There are abundant metaphors in his poems.
.Whit is a giant of american letters.discuss whitman's art of poem ； the language,the characters,etc.
1.Whitman 'psoetic style is marked by the use of the poetic ‘ I ” 2.Whehaptrefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is
” free verse, it”hotuhtaat ifsix,peodebtreyawt or regular
rhyme
scheme.3.Whitman ' spoeistryrelatively simple and even rather crude.4. Most of the pictures he painted with words are honest,undistorted images of different aspects of america of the day.
..what are the features of whi tman ‘s poetry?
1. His poetic style is marked by the use of the poetic
”I ”2. He adopted
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