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Queen Mab《麦布女王》 I. Introduction: The Author b.Queen Mab II.Language and characterization Language feature: Fairytale dream a Background：The government punished the working-class movements and progressive publications. b Contain all his major social and political ideas B.characterization: main character: Mab Queen Present his own views on social problems III. Value A theme B Limits Percy Bysshe Shelley was born to gentle,but he had a stout heart.In the early years,he went to Oxford,where he took part in progressive activities and soon came into sharp conflict with the reactionary university authorities.It seems that Shelly was a fighter by nature.So when the English government was applying the threat of capital punishment to suppress the working-class movements and progressive publications,he wrote his first important poem Queen Mab . But his publisher refused to bring it out publicly,fearing an almost certain prosecution. This poem was written early in Shelleys career and serves as a foundation to his theory of revolution.He depicts a two-pronged revolt involving necessary changes, brought on by both nature and the virtuousness of humans. Shelley took William Godwins idea of necessity and combined it with his own idea of ever-changing nature, to establish the theory that contemporary societal evils would dissolve naturally in time. This was to be coupled with the creation of a virtuous mentality in people who could envision the ideal goal of a perfect society. The ideal was to be reached incrementally, because Shelley (as a result of Napoleons actions in the French Revolution), believed that the perfect society could not be obtained immediately through violent revolution. Instead it was to be achieved through natures evolution and ever-greater numbers of people becoming virtuous and imagining a better society. Queen Mab contains almost all his major social and political ideas.It is written in the form of a fairytale dream.The fairy Queen Mab ca