阿拉比分析 文学课重点.ppt

Why the novel named Araby? In the novel: At last she spoke to me. When she addressed the first words to me I was so confused that I did not know what to answer. She asked me was I going to Araby. I forgot whether I answered yes or no. It would be a splendid bazaar; she said she would love to go. `If I go, I said, `I will bring you something. Araby A place where the girl tell hero that he should go. What is the theme of Araby? The spiritual paralysis(精神的瘫痪） The false religion（宗教的虚妄） Through this story, Joyce reveals the darkness and rottenness(腐败的） of the Irish society in the late 19th century. And he hopes that the Irishman can pluck themselves up, shake off the shackles of the church and come back to alive and dynamic（活力的）. How do the writer presents the theme through his writing skills？ metaphor隐喻 and symbol The beginning of this novel: “North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two stories stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.” Dead priest The former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. …..Among these I found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: The Abbot, by Walter Scott, The Devout Communicant, and The Memoirs of Vidocq. I liked the last best because its leaves were yellow. The wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes, under one of which I found the late tenants rusty bicycle-pump. Chalice(圣杯） “These noises converged in a single sensation of life for me: I imagined that I bore my chalice safely through a throng of foes. “ Epiphany(顿悟） Joyce did not use of stream of consciousness（意识流）, but he has used a new technique --“Epiphany”. Epiphany for the original Christianity, meanin