-
02.04
Ⅲ
.Questions and
Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)
46. Inspiration for the romantic
approach initially came from two great shapers of
are the two?
And what ideas they
expressed inspire the romantic writers?
The French philosopher, Jean Jacques
Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan von
Goethe
It is Rousseau who established
the cult of the individual and championed the
freedom of the human spirit; his famous
announcement was
“I
felt before I
thought
”
. Goethe and his
compatriots extolled the romantic spirit.
white whale ,Moby Dick, is the most
important symbol in Melville's novel. What
symbolic meaning can
you draw from it?
1.
The
white
whale,
Moby
Dick,
symbolizes
nature
for
Melville,
for
it
is
complex,
unfathomable,
malignant,
and
beautiful as well. For
the character Ahab, however, the whale represents
only evil.
2.
For
the author, as well as for the reader and Ishmael,
the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an
ultimate mystery
of the universe,
inscrutable and ambivalent, and the voyage of the
mind will forever remain a search, not a
discovery,
of the truth
Ⅳ
.Topic Discussion(20 points
in all, 10 for each)
Write
no
less
than
150
words
on
each
of
the
following
topics
in
English
in
the
corresponding
space
on
the
answer sheet.
is
Romanticism different from Neoclassicism? Provide
brief evidence from the literary works you know
best.
Neoclassicists upheld
that the artistic ideals should be order, logic,
restrained emotion and accuracy, and that
literature
should
be
judged
in
terms
of
its
service
to
humanity,
and
thus,
literary
expressions
should
be
of
proportion,
unity,
harmony and der
Pope’s “An Essay on Criticism”
advocated grace, wit (usually though satire /
humor),
and simplicity in language (and
the poem itself is a demonstration of those
ideals, too), Henry
Fielding’s Tom
Jones
helped establ
ish the
form of novel; Gray’s Elegy Written in Country
Churchyard displays elegance in style, unified
structure, serious tone and moral
instructions.
Romanticists tended to
see the individual as the very center of all
experience, including art, and thus, literary work
should
be
“spontaneous
overflow
of
strong
feelings”,
and
no
matter
how
fragmentary
those
experiences
are
(Wordsworth’s I Wandered Lonely as a
Cloud or The Solitary Reaper or Coleridge’s Keble
Khan), the value of the
work
lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique
feelings and particular attitudes.
In
a
word,
Neoclassicism
emphasized
rationality
and
form
but
Romanticism
attached
great
importance
to
the
individual’s mind.
ize the story of Mark twain's
The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn
in about 100 words, and comment
on the theme of the novel.
Mark Twain
’
s
novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a
sequence to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The
story
takes place along the Mississippi
river before the Civil War in United States,
around 1850.
Along the
river, floats in a small raft, with two people on
it, one is an ignorant, uneducated black slave
named Jim and
the other is little
uneducated, outcast white boy about the age of
thirteen, called Huckleberry Finn, or Huck Finn.
The novel relates the story of the
escape of Jim from slavery and, more important,
how Huck Finn, floating with him
and
helping him as best as he could, changes his mind,
his prejudice, about Black people, and comes to
accept Jim as a
man and as a close
friend as well.
During their journey,
they experience a series of adventures: coming
across two frauds, the Duck and King, witnessing
the lynching and murder of a harmless
drunkard, being lost in a fog and finally
Tom
’
s coming to rescue.
The theme of the novel may be best
summed in a word
“
freedom
”: Huck
wants to escape from the bond of civilization
and Jim wants to escape from the yoke
of slavery. Mark Twain uses the
raft
’
s journey down the
Mississippi river to
express his
thematic contrasts between innocence and
experience, nature and culture, wildness and
civilization.
1
03.04
Ⅲ
.Questions and Answers (24
points in all, 6 for each)
Give brief
answers to each of the following questions in
English. Write your answers in the corresponding
space
on the answer sheet.
45.
In Chapter 15 of
Wuthering Heights, Heath cliff said to Catherine:
“Why did you betray your own, Cathy?... You
loved
me
－
then
what
right
have
you
to
leave
me?...
I
have
not
broken
your
heart
－
you
have
broken
it
－
and
in
breaking it, you have
broken mine.”
Tak
ing the whole novel into
consideration, do you think Heathcliff’s above
accusation of Catherine’s betrayal can
be justified? If you think so, what
reasons does Catherine have to betray Heathcliff
and their love?
47.
The
following
passage
is
taken
from
The
Merchant
of
Venice.
Read
it
carefully
and
find
the
dramatic
it
contains. Use it as an
example to illustrate what dramatic irony is.
“Bassanio: Antonio, I am
married to a wife
Which is as
dear to me as life itself;
But
life itself, my wife, and all world,
Are not with me esteem?d above thy
life;
I
would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all
Here to this devil, to deliver you.
Portia:
Your wife would give you little thanks
for that,
If she were by to hear you
make the offer
.”
When the audience is aware of a
discrepancy between a
character
’
s perception of
his or her own situation and the true
nature of that situation, that is
dramatic irony.
In the given example,
Portia, Bassanio
’
s newly-
married wife, disguised herself as a lawyer to
take charge of the case,
Portia herself
and the audience know all this, but Bassanio is
ignorant of it, so when Bassanio offers in front
of his
disguised wife to sacrifice her
in order to deliver Antonia, he makes himself
behave in a ridiculous way in the eyes of
the audience. Thus an effect of
dramatic irony is achieved.
48.
What
is
the
most
famous
theme
in
Henry
James
′
s
fiction?
And
what
is
his
favourite
approach
in
characterization, which makes him
different from Mark and W. D. Howells as realists?
Give two titles of his
works in which
this theme and this approach are employed.
1. The international theme,
2. James
’
s
psychological approach.
3. The Portrait
of A Lady (1881) is generally considered to be his
masterpiece, which incarnates the clash between
the
Old
World
and
the
New
in
the
life
journey
of
an
American
girl
in
a
European
cultural
environment.
Daisy
Miller
(1878), a novella about a young
American girl who gets
fame for the
first time.
Ⅳ
.Topic
Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
explored three kinds of motivations of marriage
the middle-class people
had in the
second half of the 18th century. Try to make a
brief discussion about them with specific examples
from the novel. Make comments on
Austen?s attitude towards these
motivations.
1.
Motivation
one:
to
pursue
material
wealth
and
social
position
through
marriage.
Wickham,
Miss
Bingley
and
Charlotte Lucas are examples of this
kind.
2. Motivation two: to seek
sensual pleasure and beauty. Lydia and Mr. Bennet
are examples of this kind.
3.
Motivation three: to search for true love and also
take personal merits and financial positions into
consideration.
Elizabeth Bennet is a
typical example of this kind.
Austen
celebrated the third kind of motivation of
marriage while criticizing the first two
motivations.
in a few sentences the
story of the last chapter (Ch, 135) “The
Chase
－
T
hird Day”
of Melville?s novel
Moby-Dick. Discuss
the meaning of the ending of the story.
The
story
of
Moby-Dick
is
simple,
telling
the
battle
between
Ahab,
captain
of
the
whaling
ship
Pequod
and
the
2
monstrous
white whale Moby-Dick. Ahab is obsessed by his
determination to revenge himself upon the fierce,
cunning
whale, because it has crippled
him.
After many days of search and
pursuit, the white whale finally sighted. Chapter
135 is a description of the third
day
’
s
chase.
Three boats have been lowered in chase of the
whale, two of them are later destroyed by the
whale. Although
the whale is harpooned
at last, the ship is sunk and all the people in
board are drowned excepted Ishmael, the narrator
of the story who happens to be rescued
by another whale ship.
Moby-Dick is not
merely a whaling tale or sea adventure, it is a
tragic epic. The voyage the Pequod has made is a
symbolic voyage of the mind in the
quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe,
a spiritual exploration into
man
’
s
deep
reality and psychology. The battle between Ahab
and the white whale symbolizes the struggle
between man and
nature, man and fate,
good and evil.
3
04.04
Ⅲ
.
Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for
each)
Give brief answers to each of the
following questions in English. Write your answers
in the corresponding space
on the
answer sheet.
45. It is said that B.
Shaw?s play,
Mrs
.
Warren’s Profession
, has a
strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the
dramatist?s Fabianist idea. Try to
summarize this theme briefly.
1884 Shaw joined the Fabian Society
and became one of its most influential members.
Together with his fellow
Fabians, he
regarded the establishment of socialism by the
emancipation of land and industrial capital from
individual
and class ownership as the
final goal.
of his plays are concerned
with political, economic, or religious problems.
. Warren's Profession is a play about
the economic oppression of women.
46.
Emily Bronte used a very complicated narrative
technique in writing her novel
Wuthering Heights.
Try to
tell Br
onte?s way of
narration briefly.
47.
“In
your
rocking
-chair,
by
your
window
dreaming,
shall
you
long,
alone.
In
your
rocking-
chair,
by
your
window, shall you dream such happiness
as you may never feel.” The two sentences are
taken from Theodore
Dreiser?s
n
ovel,
Sister
Carrie
. What idea can you draw from the
“rocking
-
chair”?
The
“rocking
-
chair” is a symbol
standing for fate. It is like a cradle that makes
one feel peaceful. It is also like a tide
that ever goes on with life, the
destiny of which is uncertain.
At the
end of novel, Carrie sits in the rocking-chair,
which implies that her future is still uncertain
and hard to foresee.
48.
The
literary
school
of
naturalism
was
quite
popular
in
the
late
19
th
century.
What
are
the
major
characteristics of naturalism?
Strongly
influenced
by
social
Darwinism,
naturalism
emphasizes
the
determining
power
of
the
crushing
forces
of
environment and heredity.
Being devoid of the freedom of choice
and incapable of shaping their own destinies, men
and women are helpless and
insignificant in a cold and indifferent
world.
The naturalistic writers
reported truthfully and objectively, with a
passion for scientific accuracy and overwhelming
accumulation of factual detail.
Ⅳ
. Topic Discussion(20
points in all, 10 for each)
50. “My
faith is gone!” cried he (Goodman Brown), after
one stupefied moment. “There is no good on earth;
and sin is but a name. Come, devil! For
to thee is this world given.”
Comment on this passage from
Hawthorne?s “Young Goodman
Brown”.
Goodman Brown utters
this cry when he finds his wife Faith, together
with lots of prominent people of the village and
the church, attending a witches’
Sabbath in the woods.
His
cry
shows
his
great
surprise
and
disillusionment.
Thereafter,
he
becomes
distrustful
and
doubtful.
He
lives
in
dismal
and gloomy life because he is never able to
believe in goodness or piety again. Here the
author makes a pun of
the word “faith”,
Goodman Brown loses not only his faith in religion
an
d life, but also his faith in his
wife, for his
wife’s name is
Faith.
From this story, we
also can see that Hawthorne is a great allegorist
and a master of symbolism. The story itself is an
allegory and is full of symbols such as
the forest, the snake, and pink ribbon.
4
05.04
Ⅲ
. Questions and Answers (24
points in all, 6 for each)
46.“Let
it
not
be
supposed
by
the
enemies
of?the
system,?that
during
the period
of his
solitary
incarceration,
Oliver was denied the benefit of
exercise, the pleasure of society, or the
advantages of
religious
consolation.”
What do you
think Charles Dickens intends to say in the above
ironic statement taken from
Oliver
Twist
?
1. The sentence is a
typical example of irony. What Dickens intends to
say is just the opposite of the
sentence
’
s literal
meaning.
2. For the
< br>“
benefit
”
of
exercise, Oliver was whipped every morning in a
stone yard; for the
“
pleasur
e
”
of society, he
was carried every other day into the
dining hall and flogged as a public warning and
example to the boys; and as for
the
“
advantages
”
< br> of religious consolation, he was kicked into the same apartment every evening at prayer time and
listened to the
boy
’
s prayer to be guarded
against his sins and vices.
3. The
ironic statement is, in fact, a bitter
denunciation and fierce attack at the brutal,
inhuman treatment of the poor
orphan by
the workhouse authority.
n has made
radical changes in the form of poetry by choosing
free verse as his medium of expression.
What are the characteristics of
Whitman?s free verse?
1.
What he prefers for his new subject and new poetic
feelings is
regular rhyme
scheme.
A looser and more
open-ended syntactical structure is frequently
favored
2. The poetic lines are simple
and prose like, varying in length, which allows
him to express his ideas freely.
3.
Whitman
also
applies
oral
English
in
his
free
verse
to
make
it
an
effective
way
to
express
freely
the
feeling
of
common people.
of
Hemingway?s
heroes
are
regarded
as
the
Hemingway
code
heroes.
Whate
ver
the
differences
in
experience and age, they
all have something in common which Hemingway
values. What are the characteristics
of
the Hemingway code hero?
They have seen
the cold world and for one cause or another, they
boldly and courageously face the reality, whatever
the result is, they are ready to live
with grace under pressure.
Almost all
his heroes are “soldiers” either in a narrow or
broad sense. They are out there against the nature
or the world,
or even themselves. But
no matter where the battle-ground is and how
tragic the ending is, they will never be defeated.
Hemingway himself is one of those code
heroes, some critics say his protagonists are
autobiographical, for they share
something that is Hemingway.
Ⅳ
. Topics for Discussion (20
points in all, 10 for each)
eth
Bennet,
the
heroine
in
Pride
and
Prejudice
,
is
often
regarded
as
the
most
successful
character
created by Jane Austen. Make a brief
comment on Elizabeth?s character.
Elizabeth
is
clever,
alert,
and
observant.
She
is
more
observant
and
less
charitable
than
Jane
in
recognizing
the
characters of Bingley’s sisters. She is
recognizes Mr. Collins’ character in his letter
and after meeting him turns down
firmly
and with dignity his patronizing proposal. She is
able to match wits with Darcy several times and
with Colonel
Fitzwilliam, earning their
respect and admiration.
Fearless
and
frank,
not
rattled
by
the
attack
of
Lady
Catherine
de
Bourgh,
she
wins
a
notable
victory,
sending
her
Ladyship away completely
routed. She is independent but not infallible in
her judgment
—
taken in by the
charm of the
worthless Wickham, she
cannot be blamed for misjudging Darcy.
She
is
able
to
control
her
emotions
at
times
of
stress
—
when
she
first
encounters
Darcy
at
Pemberley;
when
she
realizes
that she loves Darcy and has good reason to fear
that she has lost him, she waits without replying
for time to
brig solution. She is
witty, fun-loving, recognizing humor in herself
and in others, but ridiculing only folly,
nonsense,
and inconsistencies. She
recognizes the follies of her own-family and their
shortcoming as well as their virtues.
She
is
considerate
of
others
but
quite
capable
of
asserting
herself
when
occasion
demands.
She
has
a
playful
and
unaffected manner, sunny disposition,
natural animation, sense of fun, and sweet
reasonableness. She is ready to laugh
at herself and everything save “what is
wise and good”. She shows a sense a humor by
telling what Darcy has said
about her
at Meryton ball.
5
Mark Twain?s
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as an example to illustrate the
statement that Mark
Twain was a unique
writer in American literature.
Mark
Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made
the extensive combination of American folk humor
and
serious literature.
The
novel has become a great contribution to the
legacy of American literature.
The
novel
is
written
in
a
language
that
is
totally
different
from
the
rhetorical
language
used
by
his
contemporary
writers such as Emerson, Poe and
Melville. It is simple, direct, lucid and faith to
the colloquial speech. This style of
colloquialism is best described as
vernacular.
He successfully used local
color and historical settings to illustrate and
shed light on the contemporary society. That’s
why he is known as a local colorist.
Mark Twain’s humor
is
remarkable, too. Most of his works tend to be
funny, containing some practical jokes, comic
details, witty remarks, etc. some of
them are typical of tall tales. And a great deal
of his humor is characterized by puns,
straight-faced exaggeration,
repetition, and anti-climax. He uses his humor to
criticize the social injustice and satirize
the decayed romanticism.
6
07.04
Ⅲ
.Questions and Answers (24
points in all, 6 for each)
45
．
William
Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable
playwrights the world has ever known.
(1)Name his four greatest tragedies.
(2)What are the characteristics of the
four tragedies in common?
(3)Briefly
summarize each hero
?
s
weakness of nature.
1.
Shakespeare
’
s four tragedies
are: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth.
2. Each portrays some noble hero, who
faces the injustice of human life and is caught in
a difficult situation and whose
fate is
closely connected with the fate of the whole
nation.
3. Each hero has his weakness
of nature: Hamlet, the melancholic scholar-prince,
faces the dilemma between action
and
mind; Othello’s inner weakness is made use of by
t
he outside evil force; the old King
Lear who is unwilling to
totally give
up his power makes himself suffer from treachery
and infidelity; and Macbeth’s lust for power stirs
up his
ambition and leads him to
incessant crimes.
48
．
What
is
the
most
famous
theme
in
Henry
James
?
s
fiction?
And
what
is
his
favourite
approach
in
characterization, which makes him
different from Mark Twain and W.D. Howells as
realists? Give two titles of
his works
in which this theme and this approach are
employed.
1. The international theme,
2. James
’
s
psychological approach.
3. Daisy
Miller, The Portrait of A Lady, The American.
Ⅳ
. Topic Discussion (20
points in all, 10 for each)
49
．
Analyze the
character of Jane Eyre based on the selection
taken from Chapter X X
Ⅲ
of
Jane Eyre
.
1. Jane Eyre, an orphan child with a
fiery spirit and a longing to love and be loved, a
poor, plain, little governess who
dares
to love her master.
2. Jane finds
herself hopelessly in love with Mr. Rochester but
she is aware that her love is out of the question.
So,
when forced to confront Mr.
Rochester, she desperately and openly declares her
equality with
him and her love for
him.
50
．
Symbolism is
an important literary practice in literature and
it has been widely used by many American
writers. Discuss the way symboliom is
used in Faulkner
?
s story
“
A Rose for
Emily.
”
1. Rose,
as a symbol of love, may refer to the love between
Emily and the Northerner, yet used rather
ironically, in the
way it is associated
with decay and death in the story.
2. Rose could also stand for the pity,
sympathy, or the lament “we” shows for
Emliy.
3. The pity and
lament goes not only to Emily but all those
who are imprisoned in the past and fail
to adapt to the
change
4.
Emily Grierson, an eccentric spinster
who refuses to
accept the
passage of time,
is the symbol of the
Old South
imprisoned in the past.
7
08.04
III
．
Questions and
Answers
（
24 points in all, 6
for each
）
45
．
“
?My
boy
!
?
said the
old gentleman, leaning over the desk. Oliver
stated at the sound. He might be excused
for doing so, for the words were kindly
said, and strange sounds frighten one. He trembled
violently, and burst
into
tears.
”
（
from
?
Oliver
Twist
）
Explain
why
Oliver
Twist
started
first,
then
trembled
violently
and
burst
into
tears
when
the
words
were
“
kindly
”
said.
The boy
started at the words because kind words were not
expected; it is (was) the first time in all his
life that Oliver
Twist had ever been
“
kindly
”
greeted; strange sounds may predict another
suffering.
46
．
It
is said that B. Shaw?s play,
Mrs.
Warren’s Profession
, has a strong
realistic theme, which fully reflects the
dramatist?s Fa
bianist idea.
Try to summarize this theme briefly.
1884 Shaw joined the Fabian Society and became one
of its most influential members. Together with his
fellow
Fabians, he regarded the
establishment of socialism by the emancipation of
land and industrial capital from individual
and class ownership as the final goal.
of his plays are concerned with
political, economic, or religious problems.
. Warren's Profession, written in 1893
but published 5 years later, is a play about the
economic oppression of
women.
47
．
“In
your
rocking
-chair,
by
your window dreaming,
shall
you
long,
alone.
In
your
rocking-chair,
by your
window, shall you
dream such happiness as you may never
feel.”
（
from Theodore
Dreiser?s
Sister
Carrie
）
What idea
can you draw from the
“rocking
-
chair”?
The
rocking-chair is a symbol standing for fate. It is
like a cradle that makes one feel is also a tide
with that
ever goes on with life, the
destiny of which is uncertain.
48
．
Why are
naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?
impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory
on the American thought and the influence of the
19th century French
literature on the
American men of letters gave rise to yet another
school of realism: American naturalism.
2.
The
American
naturalists
accepted
the
more
negative
implications
of
this
theory
and
used
it
to
account
for
the
behavior of those characters in
literary works who were conceived as more or less
complex combinations of inherited
attributes, their habits conditioned by
social and economic forces.
3.
In
a
word,
naturalism
is
evolved
from
realism
when
the
author's
tone
in
writing
becomes
less
serious
and
less
sympathetic but more
ironic and more pessimistic.
IV
．
Topic
Discussion
（
20 points in all,
10 for each
）
49
．
Daniel
Defoe?s
novel
Robinson
Crusoe
was
a
great
success
partly
because
the
protagonist
was
a
real
middle-class
hero.
Discuss
Crusoe,
the
protagonist
of
the
novel,
as
an
embodiment
of
the
rising
middle-class
virtues in the
mid-eighteenth century England.
1.
Social
background:
The
eighteenth
Century
England
witnessed
the
growing
importance
of
the
bourgeois
or
middle-class.
(1)
The
Industrial
Revolution.
(2)
The
expansion
of
international
markets.
(3)
Virtue
different
from
the
feudal
aristocratic class. They believed in
self-restraint, self-reliance and hard work. (4)
Literature should give a realistic of
the life of the common people; it
should meet the demand of the middle-class people.
2. Robinson Crusoe embodies the virtue
of middle class people.
(1)
Crusoe
as
an
adventurous
man
full
of
energy
and
courage.
(2)
Crusoe
as
a
practical
man.
(3)
Crusoe
as
a
resourceful man. (4)
Crusoe as a patient man.
50
．
“ ?My faith is
gone!? cried he
（
Goodman
Brown
）
,after one stupefied
moment. ?There is no good on earth;
and
sin is but a name. Come, devil! For to thee is
this world given.? ”
（
from
Nathaniel Hawthorne?s “Y
oung
Goodman
Brown”
）
Make a comment on
this passage.
Goodman Brown utters this
cry when he finds his wife Faith, together with
lots of prominent people of the village and
the church, attending a witches’
Sabbath in the woods.
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His
cry
shows
his
great
surprise
and
disillusionment.
Thereafter,
he
becomes
distrustful
and
doubtful.
He
lives
in
dismal
and gloomy life because he is never able to
believe in goodness or piety again. Here the
author makes a pun of
the word “faith”,
Goodman Brown loses not only his faith in religion
and life, but also his faith in his
wife, for his
wife’s name is
Faith.
From this story, we
also can see that Hawthorne is a great allegorist
and a master of symbolism. The story itself is an
allegory and is full of symbols such as
the forest, the snake, and pink ribbon.
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III
．
Questions and
Answers(24 points in all
，
6
for each)
46.
The
Waste
Land
is T
．
S
．
Eliot
?s most important single
poem
．
Try to state the theme
and the significance of the
poem
briefly.
theme
of
The
Waste
Land:
The
Waste
Land
is
a
poem
concerned
with
the
spiritual
breakup
of
a
modern
civilization in which human life has
lost its meaning, significance and purpose. The
poem has developed a whole set of
historical,
cultural
and
religious
themes;
but
it
is
often
regarded
as
being
primarily
a
reflection
of
the
20th-century
disillusionment
and frustration in a sterile and futile society.
significance of The Waste Land: The
Waste Land has been hailed as a landmark and a
model of the 20th century
English
poetry, comparable to Wordsworth’s Lyrical
Ballads.
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．
What is the
most famous theme in Henry James?s
fiction?
And what is his favorite
approach in
characterization
，
which makes him different from Mark
Twain and W·
s as a realist? Give two
titles of
his first period works in
which this theme and this approach are employed.
1. The international theme,
2. James
’
s
psychological approach.
3. Daisy
Miller, The Portrait of A Lady, The American.
IV
. Topic Discussion(20
points in all
，
10 for each)
49. Discuss Charles Dickens? art of
fiction
：
the
setting
，
the character
—
portrayal
，
the language
，
etc
．
，
based
on his novel
Oliver Twist
．
s Dickens uses a mixture of the
contemporary and recollected past as his fictional
setting. In his works, he sets
out a
full map and a large scale criticism of the 19th
century England, especially
London.
Oliver Twist is his early
novel, in
which Dickens reveals the dehumanizing workhouse
system and the dark, criminal underworld life.
ter-
portrayal
is
the
most
distinguished
feature
of
Dickens’s
works.
His
works
best
-depicted
characters
are
those innocent, virtuous, persecuted,
helpless child characters such as Oliver Twist,
Little Nell. Dickens writes best
when
she
writes
from
the
child’s
point
of
view.
And
he
is
also
famous
for
the
description
of
those
horrible
and
grotesque characters
like Fagin, Bill Sikes..
3.
With his first sentence,
he engages the reader’s attention and holds it to
the end. In language, he is often compared
with Shakespeare for his adeptness with
vernacular and large vocabulary with which he
brings out many a wonderful
verbal
picture of man and scene. Dickens’s works are also
characterized by a mingling of humor and humor
and wit seem inexhaustible.
50. Greatly and permanently affected by
the war experiences, Hemingway formed his own
writing style
，
together with
his theme and hero. Please discuss Hemingway?s
writing style in relation to his novels you have
read.
Hemingway himself once
said, “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is
due to only one
-eighth of it being
above
water”. Typical of this “iceberg”
analogy is Hemingway’s style. He deals with a
limited range of characters in quite
similar circumstances and measures them
against unvarying code, known as “grace under
pressure”.
The characters he
depicted, with the honesty, the discipline, and
the restraint, survive in the process of seeking
to
master the code
According
to Hemingway, good literary writing should be able
to make readers feel the emotion of the characters
directly and the best way to produce
the effect is to set down exactly every particular
kind of feeling without any
authorial
comments, without conventionally emotive language,
and with a bare minimum of adjectives and adverbs.
Besides, Hemingway develops the style
of colloquialism initiated by Mark Twain
Hemingway was highly prai
sed
by the Nobel Prize Committee for “his powerful
style forming mastery of the art” of
creating modern fiction.
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