英国文学史及作品选读课件_(09级)Lecture_16.pptVIP

Lecture 16 Teaching Objectives and Requirements Reflection Questions and Assignments * The Modern Period (IV) 1 Help the students know about William Golding. 2 Help the students know clearly about Doris Lessing. 3 Help the students have a better understanding of A Woman on a Roof. 1 William Golding (1911-1993) 2 Doris Lessing (1919- ) ● A British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, best known for his novel Lord of the Flies; also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book of the trilogy To the Ends of the Earth. ● His first book Lord of the Flies established him as a rising star on the scene and paved the way for him to win the Nobel Prize in 1983. In later years, Golding wrote quite a few stories along roughly the same line as Lord of the Flies. The stories are usually set in a place far from “the old world”: either on a wild island, or on a rock in the Atlantic, or in a primitive world, or a medieval town. ● Golding’s theme is the dark side—or evil—of human nature. ● Golding prefers his story to be called “a fable”, a veiled story about the truth of human existence. ● His Lord of the Flies is the most adequate illustration of the dark side or evil of human nature. The boys of the Lord of Flies repeats the dark, tragic side of human history of tyranny, violence, fanaticism, intolerance, and confrontation. “The Lord of Flies” is the devil figure, the source of evil, and the story of the Lord of Flies is just about the devil that lives in all human. back General Introduction ● Doris Lessing is one of the most successful prolific British novelists of the recent decades. She was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was described by the Swedish Academy as “that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny”. (女性经验的史诗作者，以其怀疑的态度、激情和远见，清楚地剖析了一个分裂的文化”) She was the eleventh woman and the oldes