a rose for emily。献给爱丽丝的玫瑰。最完整的英语。.ppt

;The Plots;; William Faulkner (1897-1962), America’s most innovative novelists, Born in New Albany, on 1897.09.25 He lived most of his life in Oxford.;Brief introduction; Faulkner belonged to a once-wealthy family of former plantation owners. Both parents came from wealthy families reduced to genteel (上流社会的) poverty by the Civil War. ; Because Faulkner came from a family with an aristocratic （贵族的） bearing （举止风度）and associated with other similar families, he was familiar with the arrogance （傲慢）of characters like the Griersons. Some of these people continued to behave as if they were still privileged plantation owners although their wealth was gone. ; However, Faulkner spent much of his time observing ordinary townspeople as well, and this is why he was able to capture the voice of the common people of Jefferson in the character of the narrator.He won two Pulitzer Prizes, a National Book Award, and the Nobel Prize for Literature. ; His Nobel Prize Acceptance speech is today considered one of the finest ever made: “The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself…alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.” ; Faulkner died on July 6, 1962, the same day his great-grandfather, the Old Colonel, had been born on 137 years earlier. ;The Sound and the Fury (1929), 《喧嚣与骚动》 As I Lay Dying (1930),《我弥留之际》 Light in August (1932), 《八月之光》 Absalom, Absalom! (1936). 《押沙龙，押沙龙》;Three novels, The Hamlet, The Town and The Mansion, known collectively as the Snopes Trilogy; THANK YOU !;The Background;William Faulkners map of Yoknapatawpha County;Character List; Homer Barron - A foreman from the North. Homer is a large man with a dark complexion, a booming voice, and light-colored eyes. A gruff and demanding boss, he wins many admirers in Jefferson because of his gregarious nature and good sense of humor. He develops an interest in Emily and takes her for Sunday drives in a yellow-wheeled buggy. Despite h