1、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,#,Ernest Hemingway(18991961),1,1899-1961,Oak Park,Illinois,Second child in a,family of six,Hunting and fishing,Young Hemingway fishing in Michigan in 1904,2,Reporter in the,Kansas City Star,newspaper,Red Cross volunteer,Wounded,Decorated by the,Italian gove
2、rnment,Ernest Hemingway as an American Red Cross volunteer in Italy,1918,3,Marriage,Paris,France,Travel Europe,In Our Time,The Sun Also Rises,Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Hemingway in Switzerland,1922,4,.,Nobel Prize Winner in 1954,To avoid the use of adjectives,esp.such extravagant ones as splendid,
3、gorgeous,grand,magnificent etc.,Attained the preferences for short sentences,short first paragraphs and vigorous English,The Sun Also Rises,(1926),Jake Barnes Robert Cohn Brett Ashley,5,Spanish Civil War,&World War,The Pulitzer,Prize in 1953,The Nobel Prize,for Literature in,1954,Commit Suicide in,1
4、961,6,In Our Time,在我们的时代里,1925,The Sun Also Rises,太阳照样升起,1926,A Farewell To Arms,永别了,武器,1929,For Whom the Bell Tolls,丧钟为谁而鸣,1940,The Old Man and the Sea,老人与海,1952,7,.,Men Without Women,没有女人的男人,Green Hills of Africa,非洲的青山,Across the River and Into the Trees,过河入林,A Clean,Well-Lighted Place,一个清洁、明亮的地方,
5、A Days Wait,一天的等待,Garden Of Eden,伊甸园,The Snows of Kilimanjaro,乞力马扎罗的雪,The Fifth Column,第五纵队,The Killers,杀人者,8,In Our Time(1925),Hemingways first book of stories,The effect of war on a young man,9,The Sun Also Rises(1926),The book was an immediate success.,Young Americans in Europe after World War,Th
6、e Lost Generation“-a group of wandering,amusing,but aimless people,who are caught in the war and removed from the path of ordinary life.,10,For Whom the Bell Tolls(1940),A volunteer American guerrilla fighting,in the Spanish Civil War,Theme-Anti-fascism,His dying convinces people that life is,worth
7、living and there are causes worth,dying for,11,The Old Man and the Sea(1952),Published first in,Life,magazine in 1952,restored again his fame and played a,huge part in his winning the 1954,Nobel Prize for Literature,An old Cuban fisherman and his battle,with a giant marlin-,a representation,of life
8、as a struggle against,unconquerable natural forces,12,Having no facility for speech-making and no command of oratory nor any domination of rhetoric,I wish to thank the administrators of the generosity of Alfred Nobel for this Prize.,No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize
9、 can accept it other than with humility.There is no need to list these writers.Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.,13,It would be impossible for me to ask the Ambassador of my country to read a speech in which a writer said all of the things which are i
10、n his heart.Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes,and in this sometimes he is fortunate;but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.,14,Writing,at its best,is a lonely life.Organizations for writ
11、ers palliate the writers loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing.He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates.For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity,or the lack of it,each day.,15,For a true writer each b
12、ook should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed.Then sometimes,with great luck,he will succeed.,16,How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only
13、 necessary to write in another way what has been well written.It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go,out to where no one can help him.,I have spoken too long for a writer.A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
14、Again I thank you.,17,.,Literary Point of View:,Essentially a negative writer,Holds a black,naturalistic view of the world and sees it as“all a nothing”,Sees life in terms of battles and tension,The typical Hemingway situations are usually characterized by chaos and brutality and violence,by crime a
15、nd death,and sport,hard drinking and sexual promiscuity.,Code Hero,wounded but strong,more sensitivity and action but less words,enjoys pleasure of life(sex,alcohol,sport),in face of ruin and death and maintains an ideal of himself.,18,.,Writing Style,He always manages to choose words concrete,speci
16、fic,more commonly found,more Anglo-Saxon,casual and conversational,and employs them in a syntax of short simple sentences,which are orderly and patterned,conversational and sometimes ungrammatical.,His distinctive writing style is,characterized,by,economy and,understatement.He used understate-,ment
17、and omission which make the text,multilayered and rich in allusions.,19,Iceberg Principle,“The Dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.”He believes that the above part must be implicit and multiple,and the under part is for the readers to imagine.,20,only
18、a small portion,of what the writer,knows is included in,the book,leaving,about ninety percent of the content a,mystery that grows beneath the surface of the writing.,A good writer does,not need to reveal,every detail of a,character or action.,Iceberg Theory,21,A Farewell to Arms,Plot Summary,A Farew
19、ell to Arms,opens in Italy during the First World War.The novels main character,Frederic Henry,is a young American serving as a second lieutenant in the Italian Army and works as an ambulance driver.His friend Rinaldi,a good-looking Italian surgeon,introduces Frederic Henry to Catherine Barkley,who
20、is described as a tall,beautiful woman with long blonde hair.He is very much attracted to her and would like to become romantically involved with her.Although Catherine responds to his first attempt to kiss her by slapping him,they gradually become more and more interested in each other.,22,Frederic
21、 feels indifferent about the war going on around him,feeling that it has little to do with him.One day in a dugout(,防空洞,),a shell wounds Frederic badly,and he is taken to a field hospital and then transferred to an American hospital in Milan.Soon after,Catherine comes to the hospital to visit him an
22、d eventually manages to stay and work at the hospital.Frederic and Catherine begin spending nights together while she is on night-duty in the hospital.Gradually Frederic finds himself falling more and more in love with Catherine.Before Frederic leaves for the front,Catherine announces that she is pr
23、egnant.,23,Frederic Henry returns to the front,realizing quickly that the men at the front have lost their spirit and drive in the war.Hemingway describes the massive Italian retreat from the town of Caporetto when the German and Austrian forces began moving against them in October,1917.Frederic com
24、es to a long wooden bridge on the Tagliamento River,where military police,the carabinieri(,宪兵,),are seizing their own Italian officers and executing them for calling the retreat.Frederic is detained,but he breaks free and jumps into the river to escape.Frederic floats down the river and eventually j
25、umps a train headed for Milan and Catherine.Sick of the war and finished with fighting for a nation that is not even his own,Frederic is well content to make his farewell to arms and to desert his post in the Italian army.,24,During a rainstorm,the bartender in the hotel warns Frederic that he is in
26、 danger of being caught as a deserter by the authorities and suggests that Frederic and Catherine borrow his boat and escape across the lake into Switzerland.Frederic rows all night and arrive in Switzerland,they are arrested,but Frederic explains that they are tourists and that they have come to Sw
27、itzerland for the winter sports.Because they have a good bit of money and valid passports,the authorities let them go.Frederic and Catherine travel to Montreux and spend a happy and romantic fall in a small chalet(,小木屋,),amidst the mountain pines.,25,When Catherine is ready to give birth,Frederic ta
28、kes her to a hospital in Lausanne.Catherines labor is extremely difficult,and the doctor gives her laughing gas to ease the pain.When it is clear that she is not going to be able to give birth to the child naturally,the doctor tries to deliver it by cesarean section,but the baby is already dead.A nu
29、rse sends Frederic out to get something to eat.When he returns,he learns that Catherine has begun to hemorrhage.The doctor is unable to stop the bleeding,and Catherines condition gradually worsens.Once she and Frederic say good-bye,Catherine slips into unconsciousness and soon dies.Catherine is gone
30、Frederic walks back to the hotel alone in the rain.,26,Analysis of Major Characters,Frederic Henry,In the sections of the novel in which he describes his experience in the war,Henry portrays himself as a man of duty.He attaches to this understanding of himself no sense of honor,nor does he expect a
31、ny praise for his service.Even after he has been severely wounded,he discourages Rinaldi from pursuing medals of distinction for him.Time and again,through conversations with men like the priest,Ettore Moretti,and Gino,Henry distances himself from such abstract notions as faith,honor,and patriotism.
32、Concepts such as these mean nothing to him beside such concrete facts of war as the names of the cities in which he has fought and the numbers of decimated(,严重破坏的,)streets.,27,Henry,is a disillusioned man of the modern world searching for some values or some system that he can believe in.,He is a lo
33、nesome and confused and restless man.He does not function well in this whirlwind existence of disorder and confusion.,Hid basic desire to derive some code of life by which he can live causes him first to attach himself to Catherine Barkley.Later he sees in their relationship a type of order,a type o
34、f commitment to a regular existence.,Ultimately in the end of the novel,Henry comes to the realization that life can be faced only if he develops within himself an inner strength and inner discipline which will allow him to meet all encounters with the same grace under pressure.,28,Catherine Barkley
35、With the advent of feminist criticism,readers have become more vocal about their dissatisfaction with Hemingways depictions of women,which,according to critics such as Leslie A.Fiedler,tend to fall into one of two categories:overly dominant shrews,like Lady Brett in,The Sun Also Rises,and overly su
36、bmissive confections,like Catherine Barkley in,A Farewell to Arms,.Hemingway was at his best dealing with men without women;when he started to involve female characters in his writing,he reverted to uncomplicated stereotypes.A Farewell to Arms certainly supports such a reading:it is easy to see how
37、Catherines blissful submission to domesticity,especially at the novels end,might rankle contemporary readers for whom lines such as“Im having a child and that makes me contented not to do anything”suggest a bygone era in which a womans work centered around maintaining a home and filling it with chil
38、dren.,29,She is a loving,dedicated woman whose desire and capacity for a redemptive,otherworldly love makes her the inevitable victim of tragedy.,She is a static character.,She dies as she had lived,with honesty,with discipline,and with courage.,“,It,s just a dirty trick.,”,30,Themes,1.The Grim Real
39、ity of War,The novel offers masterful descriptions of the conflicts senseless brutality and violent chaos:the scene of the Italian armys retreat remains one of the most profound evocations of war in American literature.,2.The Relationship Between Love and Pain,If they are to achieve physical,emotion
40、al,and psychological healing,they have found the perfect place in the safe remove of the Swiss mountains.The tragedy of the novel rests in the fact that their love,even when genuine,can never be more than temporary in this world.,31,Symbols,Rain,Rain serves in the novel as a potent symbol of the ine
41、vitable disintegration of happiness in life.Catherine infuses the weather with meaning as she and Henry lie in bed listening to the storm outside.As the rain falls on the roof,Catherine admits that the rain scares her and says that it has a tendency to ruin things for lovers.Of course,no meteorologi
42、cal phenomenon has such power;symbolically,however,Catherines fear proves to be prophetic,for doom does eventually come to the lovers.After Catherines death,Henry leaves the hospital and walks home in the rain.Here,the falling rain validates Catherines anxiety and confirms one of the novels main con
43、tentions:great love,like anything else in the worldgood or bad,innocent or deservingcannot last.,32,Catherine,s Hair,Although it is not a recurring symbol,Catherine,s hair is an important one.In the early,easy days of their relationship,as Henry and Catherine lie in bed,Catherine takes down her hair
44、 and lets it cascade around Henry,s head.The tumble of hair reminds Henry of being enclosed inside a tent or behind a waterfall.This lovely description stands as a symbol of the couple,s isolation from the world.With a war raging around them,they manage to secure a blissful seclusion,believing themselves protected by something as delicate as hair.Later,however,when they are truly isolated from the ravages of war and living in peaceful Switzerland,they learn the harsh lesson that love,in the face of life,s cruel reality,is as fragile and ephemeral as hair.,33,






