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CHARACTER ANALYSIS
1
、死亡诗社
Mr. Nolan (the headmaster)
Highlights
a. (at the
ceremony) delivers a speech, emphasizing Light of
Knowledge and
The Four Pillars
(Tradition, honor, discipline and excellence)
b. (in the classroom) questions Keating
's conduct in the courtyard and warn him
not to mislead the students
Personality Traits
conservative, narrow-minded
Mr. Keating (Teacher of English
Literature)
Highlights
a.
(on the corridor) shocks the students a bit by
encouraging them to call him oh
captain, my captain and to seize the
day (carpe diem)
b. (in the classroom)
gives the boys further shocks by pressing them to
rip out
the preface to a course book
and urges them to think about the meaning of
poetry and life
c. (on the
campus) be stopped by the boys; shares with them
his secret of Dead
Poets Society and
his experience of
d. (in the classroom)
renders Shakespeare in a funny way; ask the
students to
stand on the desk to look
at things in a different way.
e. (in
the courtyard) makes the boys walk at their own
paces to show them that
being unique is
important.
Personality Traits
Romantic; open; imaginative;
unconventional; passionate; amiable;
knowledgeable; idealistic
Neil
Highlights
a. (in Keating's dorm) confines to
Keating his fear and worries about his father 's
objection to his interest in theatre
b. (in his father's study) takes his
own life with his father 's gun.
Personality Traits
romantic;
sunny; friendly; gifted; weak
Cameron
Highlights
a. (on Keating's class) be puzzled by
and uncomfortable with Keating's
methodology
b. (in the
attic) shouts
Personality Traits
traditional and conformist; passive;
ordinary; selfish
2
、喜福会
One of the major themes that the movie
furnishes is male chauvinism or sexism
which characterizes any patriarchal
society and is common to both Chinese and
American cultures. This movie portrays
a series of men and women either in
China before 1949 or in modern America
whose acts engendered and
aggravated(
导致和加重）
the pains of the protagonists.
Huang Taitai
(Lindo's mother-in-law)
Highlights
1. Treats Lindo as a tool
for bearing children and ignorantly blame her for
being
sterile.
2. Confine Lindo to bed, hoping to make
her pregnant soon.
Symbolic meaning
She is tyrannical and manipulative
She is the female epitome of defending
the fostering male-oriented values.
Yingying's first husband
Highlights
1.
Being philandering and treats his wife brutally.
Symbolic meaning
He
represents the extreme of the evil power in
patriarchal old China.
Wu Tsing (the second husband of Anmei's
Mother)
Highlights
1. Being at the mercy of of his second
wife.
2. Mistreats Anmei's mother and
drives her to despair.
Symbolic meaning
He represents the extreme of the evil
power in patriarchal old China.
Harold (Lena's ex-husband)
Highlights
1.
Being the boss of his wife both in job and at
home.
2. Secures as many advantages as
possible at his wife's expenses.
Symbolic meaning
He is a
modern version of male chauvinism which banks on
economic power.
3
、时尚女魔头
The movie resolves around two women.
Sparks fly when the old and
sophisticated
“
de
vil
”
meets the
young and ambitious intern.
Miranda Priestly (the Editor-in-Chief
of Runway Magazine
Highlights
(in the lobby) looks intimidating
subordinates dare not share the elevator with
her.
(in the office) holds
that Andrea turns out to be more disappointing
than any of
the other silly girls after
Andrea fails to get a plane to get her home on a
stormy
night.
(in the
office) makes the seemingly impossible demand in
order to banish
Andrea, asking her to
get the unpublished manuscript of Harry potter.
(in the hotel) worries about the effect
of her divorce on her two daughters.
(in the car) tells Andrea that she has
already known the plot to replace her and
taken action to keep her job at Runway.
Personality traits
A dragon
lady; demanding; bossy; merciless, sophisticated;
career-obsessed
Andrea Sachs ( the New Second
Assistant)
Highlights
(in
the office) ill-dressed, which makes her an object
of scorn around the office.
(in the
office) begins to dress more stylishly under the
guidance of art director
Nigel.
(in the office) does her job
competently and fulfill the almost impossible task
to
get the unpublished manuscript.
(in Paris) chooses for
herself, leaving Miranda and Runway.
Personality traits
Idealistic; naive; smart;
perceptive(
富有洞察力）
4
、费城
Andrew Beckett
High-lights
(in the law firm) be assigned to an
extremely important case and be noticed by a
partner a lesion on his forehead.
(in the conference room) be
informed that he is fired
(at his home)
play his favorite opera
swooning(
喜欢）
to the sound of
Maria
Callas and
wrenchingly(
悲伤）
attempt to
explain what it means to him.
Personality traits
Gifted,
genuine, forgiving, kind
Joe Miller
High-lights
(in his office) initially refuse to
represent Becket.
(at a library)
witness Beckett encountering some discrimination,
then decide to
take the case.
(in the courtroom) ask a witness Mr.
Laird about a lawsuit which Beckett won
for them, trying to prove Beckett's
competence in work.
(in the courtroom)
ask Anthea Burton about the discrimination she
feels at Wyatt
Wheeler to broaden the
issue to talk about the public climax of
prejudice.
Personality
traits
Honest, witty, prepared to fight
for justice
Charles Wheeler
High-lights
(in the law
firm) express his appreciation for Beckett's
ability.
(at the stadium)
rant
（责骂）
that Beckett is the
one who has brought AIDS into
their
offices and men's room.
(in the
courtroom) deny that they fire Beckett because he
has AIDS, and tell a lie
by saying that
they recruit and groom Beckett, but Beckett fails
to live up to
their expectation.
Personality traits
Smart, hypocritical, selfish
5
、美女与野兽
①
Gaston, tall,
strong and handsome, is considered an ideal
marriage partner by
the other girls in
the town. But why does Belle dislike Gaston and
reject his
marriage proposal?
Because Gaston is a self-indulged
egotist, only thinking of himself. Although
just about every other unmarried young
woman in town is drooling over him, he
doesn't think they are good enough for
him. He thinks he deserves Belle because
she is the prettiest woman in town and
he is considered the most handsome man
who is the best at everything. But he
is rude and shallow. In his opinion, it's not
normal for a woman to read and have her
own ideas. He isn't concerned with
Belle's feelings in any way, and
doesn't understand Belle. Belle is dissatisfied
with the provincial life in the small
French town, wishing to live in a world like
her books, full of adventure and
romance. So Belle thinks Gaston is not for her.
②
What makes Belle change her attitude to
the Beast?
Although frightened by the
Beast's outburst of bad temper and his fierce
fa?
ade,
Belle begins to see
another side of him when the Beast fights off the
wolves to
save her, which displays his
heroism. Then, with the help of Belle and his
servants, the Beast starts to change
and act kinder. He wants to do things that
would make Belle happy and becomes
willing to put Belle's happiness above his
own. When Belle sees from the magic
mirror that her father is lost and sick in
the forest, the Beast, having fallen in
love with Belle, releases her to go to rescue
her father. Although he knows that he
may lose his chances to become human
again, his love for Belle overcomes
this. Gradually the Beast wins Belle over.
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