basis
Motivation & aim
Ideality
Thank You!
10/10
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Social atmosphere:
➢Slaves (house,car,card,children...) ➢Money worship ➢Blind comparison ➢Show off ➢...
As a result, ideality is sacrificed.
Reality
Premise &
It shows the vulgar life of a stockbroker and a genius artist.
Theme:
Pressures:
• House loan • Auto loan(车贷） • House rent • Price • Competition(job hunting) • Children&Parents • ...
The Moon and Sixpence 《月亮和六便士》
2020/10/10
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William Somerset Maugham (1874-19650)
William Somerset Maugham
English novelist, playwright,and short-story writer whose work is characterized by a clear unadorned(朴实 的)style,cosmopolitan(世界性 的)settings and a shrewd understanding of hum an nature.
Why it is called "The Moon and Sixpence"?
Metaphor:
The moon represents for the spirit,the everlasting pure passion,hung high above Strickland's head,guiding him to pursue his rooted love of art as a painter.Meamwhile,the sixpence is a kind of British coin,stands for the material life.
The novel is based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin.
It is told in episodic form by the firstperson narrator as a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character.
Plots:
Charles Strickland
Peaceful Life Leave for Paris
a well-off, middle-class stockbroker in
London Wife and two
children
Dirk Stroeve Blanche
Tahiti
Ata Died of leprosy(麻 风病）
Similarity:
They are all round and shiny under the sun.
Contrast:
There is one and only one moon in the universe while tens millions of sixpence.
The moon is unique,sublimately beautiful and sixpence is common,vulgar ,often dirty.