ARoseforEmily主题.ppt

What is the theme of the novel?
Novel titles:A Rose for Emily
Chinese name:《献给艾米丽的一朵玫瑰花》
也译作《纪念艾米丽的一朵玫瑰花》
Published time:In April 1930
Author:William Faulkner  威廉·福克纳
Birthplace: Mississippi in the United States
美国密西西比州(美国南部)
福克纳出生在美国南方一个没落贵族家庭,这样的身世对福克纳的文学创作影响深远。
威廉·福克纳的15部长篇与绝大多数短篇的故事都发生在约克纳帕塔法县,称为“约克纳帕塔法世系”。其主要脉络是这个县杰弗生镇及其郊区的属于不同社会阶层的若干个家族的几代人的故事。
Faulkner was born in a declining aristocracy family in the southern United States, this life had profound influence on his literary creation.
Backgrounds
美国独立后,南方和北方沿着两条不同的道路发展。从19世纪20年代起,北部和中部各州开始了工业革命,而在南方,则实行的是黑人奴隶制度,南北矛盾和斗争自19世纪起日趋激烈。后来,美国内战爆发了。北方在战争中的胜利,内战消灭了奴隶制,但是黑人在内战后的重建时期仍受到多方面的歧视和种植场主的剥削。
After the independence of United States, North and south developed along different paths. Since the 1820s, the industrial revolution developed in north and Central states, While in the south, was the black slavery. Since the 19th century, the contradictions between North and south had became increasingly fierce. Then, The American civil war broke out. As is known to all, victory belongs to the north,After the Civil war, slavery was eliminated, but the black still under various exploitation and discrimination. So that’s the background of this story.
Backgrounds
《献给艾米丽的一朵玫瑰》代表了福克纳短篇小说创作的最高成就。福克纳运用现代主义写作手法, 通过艾米丽的悲剧人生揭示特定历史时期南方人矛盾的精神世界,探索人类心灵冲突这一永恒的主题。深刻地反映了社会变迁时期南方贵族的没落和衰败,新兴资本主义与旧势力之间的摩擦与冲突,以及新旧价值观的矛盾。
A Rose for Emily represents Faulkner‘s greatest achievements in the writing of short stories. Modernist writing techniques are skillfully used by Faulkner to tell the tragic life of Emily to show the patible inner spiritual world of American South in a specific period which is aimed at exploring the eternal theme of conflicts in human heart. Profoundly reflects southern aristocratic(贵族的[ə,rɪstə'krætɪk]) decline and decay, and the friction and conflict between the emerging capitalism(资本主义)and the old forces , and the contradiction between old and new values in the period of social change .
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