《勃朗特一家的故事》背景知识、课堂练习.pdf

STAGE 3 This ungraded summary is for the teacher’s use only and should not be given to students. The story The story opens in 1855, and Patrick Brontë, the rector of Haworth, tells the story of his family. He, his wife and their six children – Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Branwell (their only son), Emily and Anne – moved tragic story in in its its own own right. The right The Brontë Brontë family family is is aa to Haworth in 1820 but his wife died in 1821 and her unique grouping in the history of literature and this sister, Aunt Branwell, came to look after the children book uses the device of having the father narrate its in her place. story, to give us an insight into the circumstances In 1824, Patrick sent four of the children away to which fostered the talents of the three writers who Cowan Bridge School but the two eldest fell ill and between them produced some of the greatest novels died, and he brought the two others home again. The in the English language. We see how the genius of children stayed at home and played together, writing Charlotte, Emily and Anne developed as a result of stories in little books. their own individual experiences and yet needed the Later, Charlotte and Anne went to another school presence of the others to flourish; and we are given but Anne fell ill and they came home again. Branwell’s a vivid portrait of the wild, hard and austere Yorkshire move to London to train as an artist was short-lived countryside which is such an important element in and he too returned.