笛福课件.ppt

Daniel Defoe (笛福)(1661-1731)
(forefather of modern English novel)
Main content
His life
Main works
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
His life
the son of a London butcher
received a good education in dissenting academies
was interested in politics
In his seventy years ,Defoe passed through all extremes of life. But two fact stand out clearly and are worth mentioning
1)He was jack-of-all-trades. Such as a journalist ,pamphleteer, novel-writing.
2) He used to be imprisoned in Newgate prison(纽盖特监狱).
3)He was a radical Nonconformist in religion—a puritan zeal (热情)for reform.
Main works
The Shortest Way with the Dissenters
《消灭不同教派的捷径》
Hymn to the Pillory《立珈颂》
Robinson Crusoe(1719) 《鲁滨逊漂流记》。
Moll Flanders《摩尔·弗兰德斯》
Captain singleton《辛格尔顿船长》
a Journal of the Plague Year《瘟疫年纪事》
Colonel Jacque《杰克上校》
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
1)background information
2)Content introduction
3)Text analysis
4)Remarks
Background information
It was based on the true experience of Alexander selkirk ,a scottish sailor.
He had been marooned off the coast of Chile on the island of Juan Fernandez,where he had lived for five years.
Defoe used many incidents of his own imagination.