国贸09-2 推销员之死.ppt

Death of a Salesman ---Arthur Miller 目录 全剧概要 剧作家简介--Arthur Miller 课文重点字句 赏析 ---剧情脉络(5) ---矛盾体现(2) ---人物刻画(2) 全剧情超概要 男主角Willy Loman 是个年过六十的推销员，长年以来都各地波着劳碌工作，现却面临着工作危机，两个儿子也没能出人头地。（典型的美国小人物） 儿子们在母亲Linda 的鼓励下准备干一番事业，约见父亲会面。然而当天Willy被公司辞退了，又见到的一双儿子一事无成，浪荡不已。 工作和家庭，梦想和现实，这一切都令Willy 失望进而心灰意冷，选择自杀。 剧作家简介（1） Arthur Miller (1915-2005) an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as: All My Sons (1947) Death of a Salesman (1949) The Crucible (1953) A View from the Bridge (1955). He used his plays to express criticism of American political and social issues in the mid-twentieth century, from his anti-McCarthyism parable in TheCrucible to the intangibility of the American dream in Death of a Salesman. （2）Gentlemen Prefer Blondes~ 字词句 P119 brass bedstead 铜床 straight chair 靠背椅 athletic trophy银奖杯 ---厨房和居室陈列简单，表现生活境况。奖杯是为儿子骄傲。 orchestra [‘?:kistr?] 乐队席,乐池 ---音乐伴随剧情而变换，衬托出人物性格。 P120 smash [sm??] vi 瓦解,击溃 studebaker 美国汽车品牌 P121 sell [sel] vi vt 说服,宣传, 使接受, P122 prince 名家,泰斗 ---- a merchant prince 商界巨子 Life is a casting off. 人生就是一场空忙 hell ≈ goddammit [‘ɡ?d’d?mit] 该死,要命 P123 for God’s sake 看在上帝的份上,天哪 whip 搅打(蛋,奶油) ---It’s whipped. 指奶酪已经搅拌好了。可见Linda的贤惠。 About Dramas In the plays each reasoned step brings the character closer to their own ending. We pity them as they are unable to escape their fate. Then we feel fear because we recognize, in our own dilemmas. This is the purpose of drama: to allow us to participate in the repressed. Bad drama reinforces our prejudices. It informs us of what we knew when we came into the theater - the infirm have rights, homosexuals are people, too. It appeals to our sense of self-worth, and, as such, is but old-fashioned melodrama come again in modern clothes . Good drama survives because it appeals not to the fashion of the moment, but to the problems both univers