The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas 张汉熙高级英语第二册教材.ppt

(Edited) Variations on a theme by William James URSULA LE GUIN ;Objectives;Teaching Contents;1. Introduction;Ursula Le Guin;Ursula Le Guin;William James ;William James;William James;The text;Allegory（讽喻） in literature, ;Allegory;“Omelas”; ;Note on “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”:;;;?? The general idea of the text: ;;;;2. Detailed study of the text;;;;?;What does Ursula Le Guin want to tell us through her story?;? Variations on a theme by William James: ;Para.1;What does Paragraph 1 describe?;;With a clamor of bells …the city Omelas, bright-towered by the sea: ; The rigging of the boats in harbor sparkled with flags:;.?????? In the streets … processions moved: ; ?? Some were decorous: ;decorous: adj. fml. (of appearance or behavior) correct; showing proper respect for the manners and customs of society.;In other streets the music beat faster, a shimmering of gong and tambourine, and the people went dancing, the procession was a dance: ;Children dodged in and out…over the music and the singing: ;dodge: v. to avoid (sth.) by moving suddenly aside.;synonyms: avoid, escape, avert, evade, elude;their high calls rising like the swallows’ crossing flights over the music and the singing: a simile;All the processions wound towards the north side of the city: ; where on the great water-meadow … exercised their restive horses before the race: ;naked: ;lithe: adj. (esp. of people or animals) able to bend and move easily and gracefully;restive: stubbornly resisting control; unruly; disobedient; unwilling to keep still or be controlled, nervous; The horses wore no gear at all but a halter without bit: ; Their manes were braided with streamers of silver, gold, and green:; ;They flared their nostrils and pranced and boasted to one another: ;flare: to (cause to ) open outwards, esp. to widen gradually towards to bottom;the horses being the only animal who has adopted our ceremonies as his own.: ; Far off to the north and west the mountains stood up half encircling