《维纳斯之诞生》PPT课件.pptVIP

Unit 5  Thinking as a Hobby William Golding Part 1 Understand the title Think – use the mind to form opinions, imagine, expect, examine Hobby – pleasure, a favorite pastime, free of thinking What does the title want to tell us? - why, how, what… (tn,1,06) Part 2 William Golding – Biography William Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911 and was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. Apart from writing, his past and present occupations include being a schoolmaster, a lecturer, an actor, a sailor, and a musician. His father was a schoolmaster and his mother was a suffragette. He was brought up to be a scientist, but revolted. After two years at Oxford he read English literature instead, and became devoted to Anglo-Saxon. He spent five years at Oxford. Published a volume of poems in 1935. Taught at Bishop Wordsworths School, Salisbury. Joined the Royal Navy in 1940 and spent six years afloat, except for seven months in New York and six months helping Lord Cherwell at the Naval Research Establishment. He saw action against battleships (at the sinking of the Bismarck), submarines and aircraft. Finished as Lieutenant in command of a rocket ship. He was present off the French coast for the D-Day invasion, and later at the island of Walcheren. After the war he returned to teaching, and began to write again. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was published in 1954. It was filmed by Peter Brook in 1963. Part 3 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1983 for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today? William Golding United Kingdom b. 1911d. 1993 Part 3 Par 1 What’s your opinion about the boy’s conclusion? (tn1) Par 2 “neither in the way nor with the result” What can we see from the child’s mind about each of the statuettes? (tn1) E.g. “She was in an unfortunate position.” Venus Venus, the jewel of the sky, was once know by an