完整听力材料(characteranalysis+review).doc

CHARACTER ANALYSIS 1、死亡诗社 Mr. Nolan (the headmaster) Highlights a. (at the ceremony) delivers a speech, emphasizing Light of Knowledge and The Four Pillars (Tradition, honor, discipline and excellence) b. (in the classroom) questions Keating s conduct in the courtyard and warn him not to mislead the students Personality Traits conservative, narrow-minded Mr. Keating (Teacher of English Literature) Highlights a. (on the corridor) shocks the students a bit by encouraging them to call him oh captain, my captain and to seize the day (carpe diem) b. (in the classroom) gives the boys further shocks by pressing them to rip out the preface to a course book and urges them to think about the meaning of poetry and life c. (on the campus) be stopped by the boys; shares with them his secret of Dead Poets Society and his experience of sucking the marrow of life d. (in the classroom) renders Shakespeare in a funny way; ask the students to stand on the desk to look at things in a different way. e. (in the courtyard) makes the boys walk at their own paces to show them that being unique is important. Personality Traits Romantic; open; imaginative; unconventional; passionate; amiable; knowledgeable; idealistic Neil Highlights a. (in Keatings dorm) confines to Keating his fear and worries about his father s objection to his interest in theatre b. (in his fathers study) takes his own life with his father s gun. Personality Traits romantic; sunny; friendly; gifted; weak Cameron Highlights a. (on Keatings class) be puzzled by and uncomfortable with Keatings methodology b. (in the attic) shouts Let Keating fry and Why ruin our lives Personality Traits traditional and conformist; passive; ordinary; selfish 喜福会 One of the major themes that the movie furnishes is male chauvinism or sexism which characterizes any patriarchal society and is common to both Chinese and American cultures. This movie portrays a series of men and women either in China before 1949 or in modern America whose acts en