爱丑之欲第67段解析.ppt

齐淑魏晓邹俊陈陈艳The Libido for the Ugly by Henry L. Mencken Abomination: anything hateful and disgusting Putrid: rotten and foul-smelling 腐烂的 Frightful 惊世骇俗的 Ghastly[gɑ?s(t)l?]: horrible Obscene: offensive to one’s feelings, disgusting 猥亵的，可憎的 Paragraph 6 The reasons why they love such ugly house. Is it because they are ignorant? Main idea The writer tries to trace the source of ugliness. Are they so frightful because the valley is full of foreigners---dull, insensate brutes, with no love of beauty in them? Rhetorical question for effect Are the house so frightfully ugly because the valley is inhabited by a lot of foreigners who are stupid and unfeeling like animals And who have no love and beauty in them? It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror. Masterpieces: no one could build worse houses Sarcasm and irony It is hard to believe that people built such horrible houses just because they did not know what beautiful houses were like. Border upon Be very much like The proposal borders upon the absurd 该提议似乎荒唐可笑 Save: except除什么之外 You will , in fact, find nothing of the sort in Europe –save perhaps in the more putrid parts of England Main idea of Para. 7 Reason for the ugliness: libido for the ugly Figures of speech (Para. 7) Antithesis--on certain levels of the America race, indeed, there seems to be a positive libido for the ugly, as on other and less Christian levels there is a libido for the beautiful. Menken mocks at the Christians and attack their behaviors, the Christians are supposed to have the qualities of love, kindness, humility, etc, but Menken thinks they do not know what is beautiful. Pagans , not Christians , know what is beautiful. paraphrase Libido for the ugly – libido for the beautiful --- People in certain strata (social classes or division) of American society seem definitely to hunger after ugly thins, which in other les