最后演讲份Hamlet.ppt

Hamlet Hamlet is the first work of literature to show an ordinary person looking at the futility and wrongs in life, asking the toughest questions and coming up with honest semi-answers like most people do today. futility [fju:tiliti] n. 无用；徒劳；无价值 Blank Verse Blank verse: An unrhymed iambic pentameter line. Because blank verse approximates the natural rhythms of English speech, it is one of the best known and most widely used metrical patterns in English poetry. The natural speech rhythm of the English language is iambic, and the typical length of an utterance is usually about ten syllables, since that is approximately how long most people can speak comfortably without pausing to take a breath. iambic [ai?mbik]n. 抑扬格；短长格adj. 抑扬格的；短长格的 pentameter [pen‘t?mit?] n. 五步格诗adj. 有五音步的 metrical [‘metrik?] adj. 测量的；韵律的；有韵律的 utterance [‘?t?r?ns] n. 表达；说话；说话方式 syllable [sil?bl] n. 音节vt. 划分音节vi. 按音节发音；讲话 Soliloquy Soliloquy: A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character reveals his or her thoughts when alone or unaware of the presence of other characters. soliloquy [s?lil?kwi] n. 独白；自言自语 Hamlet’s Character The cast of Hamlet’s mind is so speculative, so questioning, and so contemplative. His life is one of constant role-playing, examining the nature of action only to deny its possibility, for he is too sophisticated to degrade his nature to the conventional role a stage revenger. Soliloquy in Hamlet Soliloquy: or monologue, a dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character reveals his or her thoughts when alone or unaware of the presence of other characters. For such a figure as Hamlet, soliloquy is a natural medium, a necessary release of his anguish; and some of his questioning monologues possess surpassing power and insight, which have survived centuries of being torn from their context. The most famous soliloquy is perhaps “to be or not to be” in Act III, Scene I, Hamlet. To be or not to be To be, or not to be: that is the question: W