(指该时代陈腐伪善的道德标准和华丽藻饰的文艺风格).ppt

2007-5 Unit Ten The Sad Young Man  Teaching Periods: 8 Teaching Object:English majors of junior year Teaching aims: To acquaint students with the literary background of the time. 2. To help students to understand the difference between facts and opinions. 3. To ensure that students learn the words and expressions of the text. 4. To acquaint students with the historical and social background of 1920’s of USA. Teaching Focus: 1. Cultural Information 2. Language points and expressions 3. The theme of the passage 4. Figures of speech From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values When Margaret Thatcher, during her election campaign in 1983, first raised the issue of Victorian values, she sad that she was grateful to have been brought up by a Victorian grandmother who taught her those values: hard work, self-reliance, self-respect, cleanliness, neighborliness, and pride in country. All of these things, she said, are Victorian values. They are also perennial values. The Victorian virtues were democratic virtues--and also liberal virtues. By putting a premium on ordinary virtues attainable by ordinary people, the Victorians located responsibility within each individual. This is why the Victorians put such a premium on the self--not only on self-help and self-interest, but also self-control, self-discipline, self-respect. A liberal society, they believed in requiring a moral citizenry. The more effective the voluntary exercise of morality on the part of each individual, the more internalized that morality in the self (in the form of conscience, character, habit, or religion), the less need there would be for the external, punitive instruments of the state. Before concluding, I must say that in inviting a more respectful attention to the Victorians, I do not mean to condone everything in Victorian society. But I do believe that there are some things we can learn from the Victorians, not only such virtues as work, temperance, self-discipline, and self-relia