Moby Dick 英文简介.pptVIP

Herman Melville Herman Melville Name Education Birth Career Nationality Name Career Brith Education Nationality Herman Melville August 1, 1819 American Lansingburgh, New York novelist, poet and writer Herman Melville Melville died at his home in New York City early on the morning of September 28, 1891, at age 72. The doctor listed cardiac dilation 心脏扩张on the death certificate. He was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York. ? Typee ?泰皮?(1846) ? Omoo ?欧穆?(1847) ? Mardi ?玛地?(1849) ? Bedburn ?雷得本?(1849) ? White Jacket ?白外衣?(1850) ? Pierre ?皮埃尔? （1852） ? Billy Budd《比利?巴德》 ? Clarel 《克拉莱尔》（1876）(a poem) (a sign that he had resolved his quarrel with God) ?Herman Melville was the celebrated author of several big 19th-century novels about the sea. ?Melville published little after 1860 and it wasn’t until the 1900s that he gained his reputation as one of early Americas great authors. ?It is regarded as the first American prose epic, a Shakespearean tragedy of a man fighting against overwhelming odds in an indifferent and even hostile world. ?Moby Dick is a thrilling adventure story, the world’s greatest sea novel. Moby Dick is a symbolic work, natural history. Major themes include (1)His works are symbolic and metaphorical.(象征和隐喻) The Pequod -the ship of the American soul Moby Dick - symbol a god of nature (2)He manages to achieve the effect of ambiguity[?mb?gju??t?]（模棱两可，不确定） Moby Dick is described for the reader from different aspects. The author is unwillingness to commit himself, and the reader is thrown upon himself for judgment. (3) He tends to write periodic chapters (掉尾章的手法). the last paragraph of chapter one pulling all things into one sentence is a good illustration in point. Writing style Respect the nature’s law, otherwise human beings will got punished by nature. Nature is of good will, man’s activities corrupt it.