英国文学1(2).pptVIP

The Age of Enlightenment (Ⅱ) Some major elements of a novel Story: Character: central character or “protagonist”; main characters ; minor characters and foils. The enemy or rival of the protagonist is called “antagonist”. Plot: a particular arrangement of happenings in a novel; sometimes called a story line. Theme: its controlling idea or its central insight. setting: narrative point of view: l???Point of View: relation between novelist and reader; between novel and reader. (when open a novel, we open a window to life) 1)The perspective with which the story is told; 2)a standpoint from which the narrator sees the story and how he intends the readers to see the story; 3)function: what a vision the novel provides largely depends upon the point of view. l?? Kinds of Point of View: 1)Divided by the narrator’s relationship with the character, there are the first-person and the third-person narrative. ? 2) Divided by the narrator’s relationship with the event, the participant narrator and the nonparticipant narrator. 3) Divided by the extent of the narrator’s knowledge of the events, the omniscent narrator. the selective omniscient narrator, the objective narrtor(dramtic point of view) and so-called “innocent eye”. Robinson Crusoe (1719) I. Point of view: the first person What kind of result with first-person point of view? II. Main idea and major characters in Robinson Crusoe: Robinson Crusoe A pioneer colonizer (sugar-plantation in Brazil) A labor of great power will An empire builder A foreign trader (slave trading) How do you understand the Robinson? III. A typical British middle-class man: 1) practical, intelligent, and diligent; ambitious to acquire a great amount of wealth money; 2) with great courage, determination and ingenuity to face all kinds of hardships; 3) with a curiosity to know more about the world; 4) saved from despair by Puritan fortitude.