美国文学选读之白鲸_2.pptxVIP

Moby Dick;1. Overview;2. Life Experience; Melville was born in New York City. Both his parents came from well-to-do families, but later their family busine failed. Melville’s childhood was happy to the age of 11, when his father died in debt.; He had little education. He had to leave school at the age of 15, and began to work. He worked as a clerk, a farmer and a teacher, before becoming a cabin boy on a ship at about twenty.; ---There are three things which deserve mention about his life: going out to sea, his marriage and his friendship with Hawthorne.;---Melville was a whaler, the lowest of sailors. He went to Liverpool, England and the South Pacific, spending most of his young manhood undergoing one of the most brutalizing experiences for a man. His experiences and adventures on the sea furnished him with abundant material for fiction.; --- The married life of Melville was more like that of Scott Fitzgerald than Mark Twains. Melville married Elizabeth Shaw, the daughter of a wealthy judge. To support her and their growing family, he had to write for money.; ---During the summer of 1850, Melville and Hawthorne met. They exchanged visits, meeting at least nine times, and wrote to one another often.; ---Melville saw in Hawthorne the one American who was expressively aware of the evil at the core of American life. He found Hawthorne’s understanding of evil, that blackness of vision, unusually fascinating.;3. Major works;Moby;抹香鲸; 身体粗短，行动缓慢笨拙，易于捕杀，故现存量由原来的85万头下降到20万头。抹香鲸的长相十分怪，头重尾轻，宛如巨大的蝌蚪，庞大的头部约占体长的1/4-1/3，整个头部仿佛是一个大箱子。它的鼻子也十分奇特，只有左鼻孔畅通，而且位于左上方，右鼻孔堵塞，所以它呼吸的雾柱是以45°角向左前方喷出的。;抹香鲸图片;4.《白鲸》写作背景;5.The novel on the whole can be understood from three levels:;6 .Character List; Moby Dick - The great white sperm whale. Moby Dick, also referred to as the White Whale, is an infamous and dangerous threat to seamen, considered by Ahab the incarnation of evil and a fated nemesis(克星).; Ahab - The captain of the Pequod. Ahab lost his leg to Moby Dick. He is single-minded in his pur