YoungGoodmanBrown.ppt

,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,*,*,Young Goodman Brown,Young Goodman Brown,Nathaniel Hawthorne is the greatest novelist in the early ninetheens century in America.He is also the representative of American romantic novels.,Introduction,Young Goodman Brown,is one short story from,Mosses from an Old Manse,published in 1846.,History background:it takes place in the days of King William who reigned from 1688 to 1702,the time when Browns grandfather(1660s)perscute the Quakers.,17,世纪，英国新兴资产阶级主张纯洁教会，清除国教中天主教的影响，因而有,清教徒,之称。清教的基本群众是中小工商业者、商贩、手工业匠人和市民阶层。清教一方面宣传努力工作、诚实守信、勤俭节欲,;,另一方面反对教会礼仪的铺张浪费，并谴责一切时间物质享受，强调所谓洁身自好的精神境界。伊丽莎白女王憎恨清教徒，斯图亚特更加迫害清教徒。,Background,Quaker(,贵格会,),，又称,Religious Society of Friends(,教友派,),，是,Protestantism,的一个派别。成立于,17,世纪的英国，因一名早期领袖的号诫,听到上帝的话而发抖,而,(Quaker),。,Quakers,反对任何形式的战争和暴力，不尊敬任何人也不要求别人尊敬自己，不起誓，反对洗礼和圣餐。主张任何人之间要像兄弟一样，主张和平主义和宗教自由。,Setting:the late 17,th,century Salem,Massachusettes.Sunset,dark forest.,Atmasphere:mysterious and dread,Gothic novel.,One evening near sunset Goodman Brown,a young man who has married for three monthes,prepares to leave his home in Salem,Massachusetts,and his pretty young wife,Faith,to go into the forest and spend the night on some mission that he will not disclose other than to say that it must be performed between sunset and sunrise.Although Faith has strong forebodings about his journey and pleads with him to postpone it,Brown is adamant and sets off.,Plot,Brown leaves the village and enters the dark,gloomy,and probably haunted forest.He has not gone far before he meets the Devil.He makes an effort to return to Salem.It is at best an attempt,though the Devil does not try to detain him,Brown continues walking with him deeper into the forest.,As they go,the Devil shocks Goodman Brown by telling him that his ancestors were religious bigots,crule exploiters,and practitioners of the black artin short,servants of the Devil.Further,the young man is told that the very pillars of New Englang society,church and states are witches and collaborators with the Devil.Indeed,he sees his childhood Sunday School teacher,now a witch,and overhears the voices of his minister and a deacon of his church as they ride past conversing about the diabolical communication service to which both they and he are going.,The climax of the story comes just before they receive the sacrament of baptism:Young Goodman Brown cries to his wife to look heavenward and safe herself.In the next moment he finds himself alone.,The denouncement of the plot comes quickly.Returning the next morning to Salem,Young Goodman Brown is a changed man.He now doubts that anyone is good,his wife,his neighbors,the officials of church and state and he remains in this state of cynicism until he dies.,Goodman Brown,Name:1.,古德曼,.,布朗,2.Goodman means the goodness or kindness of human nature.Brown is a mixed color.It means the mixture of human nature.,Characterisics:stubborn,unfirm in belief and suspicious.,At first,Goodman Brown is innocent,he loves his Faith and believes in the goodness of his father and grandfather and believes in the christian nature of Goody Cloyse,the minister,and Deacon Gookin.Then he is induced by the devil and steps in the forest,the evil place,and finds his ancesters evils,Goody Cloyse a witch,and other two are his followers.Pure and kind Faith is found at the ceremony corruptible.It indicates that Goodman Browns religion is unfirm,easy to be shaken.And in the end his religion was destroyed and he lives a cynic and distrustful life until he dies.,Characters,Faith,Name:1.it stands for belief in the Puritan worldview.It also means goodness and purity.,She wants her husband to stay with her,but her husband cant resist devils temptation and leave her,far and far away until he loses her.,The old man,The old man,the devil,appears to be a common person,which suggests that every person including Goodman Brown has the probability for evil.By emphasizing the resemblance to Goodman Brown,Hawthorne suggests that the devil is the embodiment of the dark side of man.,How the Puritans strick moral code and overemphasis on the sinfulness of humankind foster undue suspicions and distrust.,The secret sin and hypocrisy of all persons.,The hypocrisy of Puritanism,The results of doubt or disbelief,Uncertainty and confusion in the course of teenagerss growth,Trust in marrige,Theme,Sunset:darkness,uncertainty,confusion,Sunrise:brighteness,Pink ribbon:1.purity 2-3.unstebility of belief 4.corruption 5.the mark of degeneration,Staff with a great black snake:evil,wrickedness,Forest:unpredictable rode in our life,systerious,horrible but attractive,Symbolism and Ambiguity,superego,ego,id,village,Goodman Brown,forest,Darkness,wild,untamed passions and terrors,unconciousness,Light and order,both social and spiritual order,conciousness,Poor ego,fail to achieve a healthy balance,Id versus superego,