Lesson 9 A Dill Pickle.pptVIP

Lesson 9 A Dill Pickle By Katherine Mansfield Objectives In this lesson, students will: understand the background of the writer Katherine Mansfield understand the meaning of the text learn how to use the key words, phrases and sentence patterns in the text; practise reading between lines form/enrich opinions on topic related to gender relationship (esp. love ) understand and learn to use Rhetorical Question and Exclamatory Sentence Katherine Mansfield 1 Other names Elizabeth Stanley Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Boris Petrovsky Mrs.John Middleton Murry Katherine Mansfield 2 Family Background From a middle-class/ bourgeois family with traditional values Father —— a successful merchant, chair of the Bank of New Zealand mother ——constantly suspicious, constantly overbearingly tyrannous, cold and indifferent Katherine Mansfield 3 very talented, pensive, self-absorbed, young girl, little attention from mother, resentful toward her family, a rebellious streak that clashed with her familys. close relationship with her maternal grandmother and her only brother an impassioned young woman interested in the early feminist movement and adopted a free and uninhibited/ unrestrained view of human sexuality. Free from traditional social or moral constraints Katherine Mansfield 4 infidelity to musician husbands sexually unbalanced and at times ... irresponsible. married musician George Bowden but pregnant by Trowell before marrying Bowden. suffered a miscarriage /contracted gonorrhea /died young of TB Katherine Mansfield 5 Some Events That Influenced Her Writing Family’s move to Karori — early childhood experiences in Karori College life in London — allowance from father — financial situation Romantic relationship with Ida Baker/ George Bowden/ Garnet Trowell / John Middleton Murry — genders’ relationship Katherine Mansfield 6 Knowledge of and relationship with other writers and critics — Oscar Wilde / D. H. Laurence/ Virginia Woolf/ John Murry —— writing style and techn