董贝父子分析.ppt

Dombey and son Content This novel, written by Charles Dickens mirrors the 19th century society. Dombey and son, it is a generic title because it gives the reader the name of the two major characters of the book but it also reveals the name of their Firm which is equal with the idea of House. Chapter one 赌具牌具www.duju.asia The description of opposition (p1) Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm chair by the bedside, and son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new. (p2) Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. son about eight-and-forty minutes. Dombey was rather bald, rather red, and though a handsome well-made man, too stern and pompous in appearance, to be prepossessing. son was very bald, and very red, and though (of course) an undeniably fine infant, somewhat crushed and spotty in his general effect, as yet. The analysis of Chapter one(P1-12) The text begins with a description of both Dombey and son but revealed in a opposition, for example we have the visual imagery: Dombey is sitting in a darken corner but his son is in front of the fire that gives us the impression of the real place that the place of Dombey will be taken by the son. The description of the two characters using the opposition in the text and it is used a syntactic parallelism: Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son about eight-and-forty minutes. Dombey was rather bald, rather red and son was very bald and very red. The analysis of irony sentences (p10) those three words conveyed the one idea of Mr. Dombey‘s life. The earth was made for Dombey and son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships; rainbows gave them promise of fair weather; winds blew for or against their e