th week Fitzgerald 英美文学赏析 教学 讲义.pptVIP

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940);The Roaring 20’s;This decade saw changes in lifestyle and technology that revolutionized American life in such a way that it has never been the same since. Young men and women indulge in a whirl of frenetic social excitement or dissipation fostered by the collapse of moral standards during and following World War I. ;Fitzgerald has become identified with the extravagant living of the Jazz Age: “It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire.” --F. Scott Fitzgerald He felt that aspiration and idealism defined America and its people. ;;Women’s Fashion in 1920;“In the 1920’s, a new woman was born. She smoked, drank, danced and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy(轻浮的） and took risks. She was a flapper.”;;Entertainment;Entertainment;“The Roaring Twenties”;;The American Dream;Origins of the American Dream:;Prolific dime novel writer Horatio Alger, Jr. became famous for his novels that idealized the American Dream. His rags-to-riches stories glorified the notion of the down-and-out who were able to achieve wealth and success and helped entrench the Dream with the popular culture.;;“迷惘的一代” Lost Generation; Here was a new generation . . . dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken. . . .” -----(from F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, 1920). ;His Life;;;;;The End of His Life;Ernest Hemingway pointed the finger at Zeldas festival concept of life. Shes not your Muse. Shes Your Nemesis, he roared. Shell destroy you in the end. ;Life; At 44 he died there, leaving his executor the will of a millionaire and the estate of a pauper. ;Works ;This Side of Paradise captured the hopes of success of Americans but also the fears of failure and poverty.;Works;