[英语学习]The 18th Century1.ppt

Goldsmith’s Works The Traveller and The Deserted Village are written in the heroic couplet, which was the ruling poetic form in the 18th century. Goldsmith’s Good-Natured Man The Good-Natured Man is a comedy of ___________. The Good-Natured Man depicts the history of young man’s ___________. In Good-Natured Man , Goldsmith preaches prudent(谨慎的) benevolence(仁慈). The Citizen of the World Goldsmith’s place as one of the greatest English essayists is mainly founded on ___________________, a collection of _______ originally published serially as Chinese Letters. Following __________’s example, Goldsmith comments on English life by _____ supposedly written by a Chinese philosopher, “ a native of Honan,” Lien Chi Altangi, residing in London. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Tom, the titular hero of the story, is a boy found in Mr. Allworthy’s house and brought up there with the kind old man’s nephew Bliful. The latter, a hypocritical, wicked man, is envious of Mr. Allworthy’s fondness for the foundling and of Tom’s intimacy with the beautiful Sophia, daughter of the well-off squire Western. He plays more tricks so that Mr. Allworthy drives Tom out of the house. Tom, intending to go to sea, wrongly takes the road to London, and Sophia, in rebellion against her father’s desire that she be married to Blifil, marches out for London too, accompanied by her maid. The two young people, especially Tom, have many adventures on the road, but in the end, after some misunderstanding between them, they are happily united. For a time, Tom became a national hero. People were fond of this young fellow with manly virtues and yet not without fault---honest, kind-hearted, high-spirited, loyal, and brave, but impulsive, wanting prudence and full of animal spirits. In a way, the young man stands for a wayfaring Everyman, who is expelled from the paradise and has to go through hard experience to gain a knowledge of himself and finally to approach perfectness. Tom Jones brings i