rd weekDanielDefoe The neoclassical Period (新古典主义时期) 英美文学赏析 知识介绍.pptVIP

Character analysis The character Robinson is not common sailor. He is a businessman who takes overseas business as his cause. He is also a typical eighteenth-century English middle-class man with a great capacity for work, inexhaustible energy, courage, patience persistence in overcoming obstacles, in struggling against the hostile natural environment. He is the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist. Robinson is a bourgeoisie with adventurous spirit . Robinson is a bourgeoisie of practical spirit. Robinson is bourgeoisie of colonizing character. A.?The artistic character of the novel: the concreters of the description and vividness. The author does not express the character with his words but let the character show himself in his own action. B.??Limitation: a.??simple structure b. loose and repletion c. minor characters lack much impression The neoclassical Period  (新古典主义时期) I. The time period: The neoclassical period is between the return of the Stuarts to the English throne in 1660 and the full development of Romanticism which came with the publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798. 欧洲文艺复兴后产生了一种主张理性至上、尊重传统道德价值、倡导公民义务等的新古典主义文艺思潮，也就是启蒙主义运动。 II. The Age of Enlightenment: 1. The outline: A. The definition: The eighteenth-century England is also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason. The Enlightenment Movement was a progressive intellectual movement. B. The source: It flourished in France and swept through the whole Western Europe at the time. C. The nature: The movement was a furtherance延续与发展 of the Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. D. The purpose: Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas. 2. The rational principle: A. principles: The enlighteners celebrated reason or rationality, equality and science. They held that rationality or reason should be the only, the final cause