10th week virginia woolf 英美文学赏析 教学课件.ppt

Discussion Question 1: Can a woman /man become truly independent and free to have both a happy life and a successful career? Question2: What is your understanding of women’s situation in China? Question 3: Do you think it is still necessary to discuss the equality between men and women nowadays? Woolf’s Achievement 3An Insight into Gender She waged literary war on gender. To engage in a war or campaign Sexual identity, especially in relation to society or culture See Sex; Sexuality; Gender Possibility of an Androgynous Mind In the last chapter of A Room of One’s Own, Woolf refers to Coleridge who said that a great mind is androgynous and states that when this fusion takes place the mind is fully fertilized and uses all its faculties. Perhaps a mind that is purely masculine cannot create, any more than a mind that is purely feminine... Having both female and male characteristics Orlando (1928) a fantasy novel, traced the career of the androgynous protagonist from a masculine identity within the Elizabethan court to a feminine identity in 1928. a play of gender Virginia Woolf’s Last Words( to her husband) “Dearest, I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we cant go through another of those terrible times. And I shant recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I cant concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I dont think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came.  最亲爱的： 我感到我一定又要发狂了。我觉得我们无法再一次经受那种可怕的时刻。而且这一次我也不会再痊愈。我开始听见种种幻声，我的心神无法集中。因此我就要采取那种看来算是最恰当的行动。你已给予我最大可能的幸福。你在每一个方面都做到了任何人所能做到的一切。我相信，在这种可怕的疾病来临之前，没有哪两个人能像我们这样幸福。 　　 I cant fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I cant even write this properly. I cant read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and in