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L4 The Duchess and the Jeweler By Virginia Woolf I. Pre-reading Tasks 1.1 Lead-in Questions 1. From the title can you guess what the text might be about? 2. Would you sell or buy your love? 3.In order to get what you want ,would you get them by all means? Why or why not? 你的爱情值百万You Love Worths Million 某个节日上,男嘉宾说:钱能买到一切.全场哗然.男嘉宾于是给大家出了一道测试题:你的仇人爱上了你的女友,现在给你一笔钱让你退出.所有的观众都对这种论调很不屑.5万,50万,500万,随着嘉宾价码的提升,人们的态度也开始转变.等到男人开出5000万价码的时候,全场人都同意要钱而转让爱情,当仅剩的一名观众仍然坚持要爱情时,所有的人都认为他有病,就连他的女朋友也说我虽然感动,但更感动于愿意为我付出5000万的人.男嘉宾最后说了一句话:我相信爱情,相信人性,所以我努力地赚钱,爱钱,只是不希望我的爱情和人性受到别人金钱的考验罢了. 看来幸福的人都是相似的,不幸的人各有各的不幸,前者既有钱又有爱,后者或者没钱,或者没爱情. II. While-reading Tasks Plot summary It is the story of the worlds greatest jeweler who had promised his mother to become the richest jeweler in the world in his childhood but now that his dream has materialized he does not feel satisfied. So trying to achieve satisfaction, knowingly he buys fake pearls from a Duchess in exchange for passing a whole weekend with her daughter whom he is in love with. The purpose of this essay is to show how Virginia Woolf has successfully presented the inner mind of the characters, their struggle and their communication through the least amount of verbal communication among them. 2.1 Virginia Woolf English author, feminist, essayist, publisher, and critic. Woolf was among the founders of the Modernist movement which also includes T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. ? Works by Virginia Woolf Novels: The Voyage Out?· Night and Day?· Jacobs Room?· Mrs. Dalloway?· To the Lighthouse?· Orlando: A Biography?· The Waves?· The Years?· Between the Acts Short stories: A Haunted House?· A Society?· Monday or Tuesday?· An Unwritten Novel?· The String Quartet?· Blue Green?· Kew Gardens?· The Mark on the Wall?· The New Dress?· The Duchess and the Jeweler Biographies: Flush: A Biography?· Roger Fry: A Biography Non-fiction: Modern Fiction?· The Common Reader?· A Room of Ones Own?· On Being Ill?· The London Scene?· The