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Francis Scott Fizgerald - Great Gatsby 课件
❖ Throughout his life, both Fitzgerald’s greatest happiness and deepest sorrow were caused by Zelda. They lived expensively, and their need for money was tremendous.
❖ Upon the dramatic crash of the stock market on "Black Thursday", October 24, 1929, 16 million shares of stock were quickly sold by panicking investors who had lost faith in the American economy.
❖ He met his girl friend Zelda Sayre in the same way as Gatsby meets Daisy in his novel.
❖ Zelda was the daughter of a judge in Montgomery, Alabama, a beautiful society girl, who told Fitzgerald that she liked him well enough but it would be too expensive for him to marry her.
❖ The moral code of the 1920’s roaring decade:
Sucess means money, and money means happiness.
❖ The characteristics of the 1920’s roaring decade:
美国文学 菲茨杰拉德 Fitzgerald 课件
Literary Characteristics
Simplicity and gracefulness Metaphors and symbols Manipulating relation between the general and the specific Bold impressionistic and colorful quality
Literary Characteristics
Themes: money and love Attitude towards money: contradictory and complex Double vision: knowing it well inside; seeing it ironically outside Special experience: familiar with life style, mental state and moral standards of the rich Critical of the rich and showing the disintegrating effects of wealth on the emotional make-up
Literary Characteristics
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Fitzgerald: excellent chronicler of the Jazz Age Greatness: finding intuitively in his personal experience the embodiment of that of the nation and creating a myth out of American life Pursuing his ideals; objective enough to analyze, satirize and criticize them
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Daisy, the main character from The Great Gatsby, exemplified the traits of a flapper woman（时髦少女） from the “roaring twenties” Jazz Age.
Women‟s fashions and hairstyles were daring and revealing during the Jazz Age. Women began to express themselves. This was the early stages of the feminist movement.
Married Zelda Sayre, who exerted a strong influence on his literary career and his personal life. She was the prototype of a series of rich, beautiful women who figure prominently in his fiction.
Two flappers （轻佻 女子）dancing the Charleston on the roof of Chicago’s Sherman Hotel (1926).
Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age
Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald's fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the Jazz Age, in which he shows a particular interest in the upper-class society, especially the upper-class young people.
F.-Scott-Fitzgerald作品风格PPT演示课件
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The experience of Fitzgerald
Entered the Princeton University Left the university without graduating
Joint the army Met Zelda (a beatiful daughter of an court judge)and deeply
The kind of Jazz Age style ---Young and glamorous pople who try to live the American dream of money, success and happiness, only to have their lives touched by sadness and even tragedy.
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This Side of Paradise (1920)
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The Great Gatsby
The poor youth
Gatsby falls in love
with a beautiful upper
class girl Daisy .
Gatsby also joins the
army. Daisy thinks he is
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Literary Characteristics
Themes: money and love desire of the young idealistic
Their life experience and spiritual world have the close inner link with the author .
fell in love. Left the army,writed his novel,shot to fame,and won Zelda as his
The experience of Fitzgerald
Entered the Princeton University Left the university without graduating
Joint the army Met Zelda (a beatiful daughter of an court judge)and deeply
The kind of Jazz Age style ---Young and glamorous pople who try to live the American dream of money, success and happiness, only to have their lives touched by sadness and even tragedy.
•3
This Side of Paradise (1920)
•4
The Great Gatsby
The poor youth
Gatsby falls in love
with a beautiful upper
class girl Daisy .
Gatsby also joins the
army. Daisy thinks he is
•6
Literary Characteristics
Themes: money and love desire of the young idealistic
Their life experience and spiritual world have the close inner link with the author .
fell in love. Left the army,writed his novel,shot to fame,and won Zelda as his
美国文学F·Scott Fitzgerald PPT
pplied to the era of the 1920s in the U.S., whose frenetic（狂热的 ） youth of the post war period were conceived as more juvenile（孩子气的 ） and hedonistic（享乐主义） than the “lost generation”. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) was a classic representation of the period.
Jazz Age
• A period of U.S. history in the 1920s noted for general prosperity, financial speculation金融投机, Prohibition, the emergence of organized crime, the popularity of jazz and the open pursuit pleasures.
• Prohibition: Enacted in 1919 (and ultimately repealed in 1933), this amendment made it illegal for anyone to manufacture, sell, or transport liquor of any sort.
in the actions of the story. As a narrator, he is standing away from the story
and able to give an objective presentation to the events and characters of the novel. How?
Jazz Age
• A period of U.S. history in the 1920s noted for general prosperity, financial speculation金融投机, Prohibition, the emergence of organized crime, the popularity of jazz and the open pursuit pleasures.
• Prohibition: Enacted in 1919 (and ultimately repealed in 1933), this amendment made it illegal for anyone to manufacture, sell, or transport liquor of any sort.
in the actions of the story. As a narrator, he is standing away from the story
and able to give an objective presentation to the events and characters of the novel. How?
Fitzgerald生平简介英文PPT
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Overview
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himselfБайду номын сангаас He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, and his most famous, The Great Gatsby. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age.
Lost Generation
coined by Gertude Stein refer to a group of American literary notables who lived in Paris from the time period which saw the end of WWI to the beginning of the Great Depression. More generally, the term is being used for the young adults of Europe and America during WWI. They were "lost" because after the war many of them were disillusioned with the world in general and unwilling to move into a settled life.
Overview
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himselfБайду номын сангаас He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, and his most famous, The Great Gatsby. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age.
Lost Generation
coined by Gertude Stein refer to a group of American literary notables who lived in Paris from the time period which saw the end of WWI to the beginning of the Great Depression. More generally, the term is being used for the young adults of Europe and America during WWI. They were "lost" because after the war many of them were disillusioned with the world in general and unwilling to move into a settled life.
菲茨杰拉德简介英文PPT课件
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Conclusion
• reveals the falseness of ideals and moves toward disillusion
• All his stories：morality, industry, and maturity（成熟）
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• his stories can be regarded as moral fables. He was interested in people’s dreams and failures. He showed more interest in subject matter than in structure.
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Profile人物简介 Representative Works代表作品 Works Analysis作品分析 Evaluation人物评价
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Profile人物简介
1896 – 1940
He was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age.
• writing style：simple, vivid, graceful, precise and polished.
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Evaluation
• one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century
• the chronicler of the 1920s in America and the spokesman of the Lost Generation
Conclusion
• reveals the falseness of ideals and moves toward disillusion
• All his stories：morality, industry, and maturity（成熟）
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• his stories can be regarded as moral fables. He was interested in people’s dreams and failures. He showed more interest in subject matter than in structure.
Outline
Profile人物简介 Representative Works代表作品 Works Analysis作品分析 Evaluation人物评价
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Profile人物简介
1896 – 1940
He was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age.
• writing style：simple, vivid, graceful, precise and polished.
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Evaluation
• one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century
• the chronicler of the 1920s in America and the spokesman of the Lost Generation
F.Scott Fizgerald 美国文学菲茨杰拉德课件
Themes
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s America dream was originally about discovery, individualism, and the pursuit of happiness. In the 1920s depicted in the novel, easy money and relaxed social values have corrupted the dream. G is ruined by an unworthy woman, just as the American dream in the 1920s is ruined by the unworthy pursuit of money and pleasure. The Gulf between the East and the West The West represents the newly rich, who are gaudy, ostentatious and vulgar (G’s ornate mansion, pink suit, Rolls-Royce), yet sincere and loyal; The East represents the old aristocracy, who are graceful, subtle and elegant (Buchanans’ tasteful home, the white dresses of Daisy and Jordan), yet careless and selfish. remind readers of Henry James’ “international theme”
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Writing Style
• Many of Fitzgerald’s works are half autobiography properties. • Because he married with a typical south woman, Fitzgerald showed interest in the southern United States in his novels. The homesickness and nostalgia emotions to the southern and the awareness and helpless on the north and south of the contrast provide background and fundamental key for many of his novels. • Fitzgerald created a kind of refreshing literature feminine image in his novels. They were trendy, independent and attractive. In the other hand, they had the courage to pursue their happiness at any cost. These typical heroines in Jazz Age also became the characteristics and marks of Fitzgerald’s novels.
弗· 司各特· 菲茨杰拉德 Francis Scott Fitzgerald （1896－1940)
英语1006班王强 张涛
Major Topics
• Life and Career • Major Works • Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age • The American Dream • Writing Style
Life and career
• Born in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 24, 1896 • Had an expensive education in private schools at Princeton. • Due to illness and neglect of academic study, he left the university in 1917 without graduation.
Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age
• The Jazz Age:
It refers to the 1920s, a time marked by frivolity( 轻松快活), carelessness, hedonism(享乐主义) and excitement in the life of the flaming youth. Fitzgerald is largely responsible for the term and many of his literary works portray it. The Jazz Age is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.
Major works
• novel
• This Side of Paradise《天堂的另一面》: His first novel. It won for him wealth and fame. • The Beautiful and Damned 《漂亮冤家》又名《美 丽与毁灭》 • The Great Gatsby 《了不起的盖茨比/长岛春梦》: His masterpiece. It made him one of the greatest American novelists. • Tender is the Night《夜色温柔》 . • The Last Tycoon《最后的大亨》: His last novel. It remains unfinished.
Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age
• Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald's fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the Jazz Age, in which he shows a particular interest in the upper-class society, especially the upper-class young pe short stories:
• Flappers and Philosophers (1921)《时髦女和哲学 家》 • Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) 《爵士乐时代的故事 》 • All the Sad Young Man (1926) 《一代悲哀的年轻 人》 • Taps at Reveille (1935) 《早晨的起床号》 • Babylon Revisited（1931）《重访巴比伦》
• To keep earning enough money, Fitzgerald wrote short stories and novels at a rapid speed.
Life and career
• The 1930s brought relentless decline for Fitzgerald with a series of misfortunes: his reputation declined, his wealth fell, his health failed. • Zelda had suffered from some serious mental breakdowns which confined her in a sanitarium(疗养 院) for the rest of her life. • Alcoholism, loneliness and despair combined to ruin Fitzgerald. He died in 1940 of a heart attack.
Fitzgerald and the American Dream
• the American Dream is a popular belief that
people can achieve success, whether it is wealth, fame or love through honest hard working in a new world of liberty, equality, chances and promises. Fitzgerald's fictions often deal with the bankruptcy of the American Dream, which is highlighted by the disillusionment of the protagonists' personal dreams due to the clashes between their romantic vision of life and the sordid reality.
Life and career
• Married Zelda Sayre, who exerted a strong influence on his literary career and his personal life. She was the prototype of a series of rich, beautiful women who figure prominently in his fiction. • The young couple frequently went abroad and lived extravagantly a luxurious life.
Fitzgerald and the American Dream
• Fitzgerald„s own life was a mirror of the 1920s. He was the victim of his “American Dream.” He was fascinated with material wealth on one hand by writing hard to accumulate wealth to live an extravagant(铺张的) life, yet was bewildered(使 迷惑) with the wealth on the other, fully aware of the underlying spiritual disorientation and moral decay. Finally in his life, alcoholism, loneliness and despair combined to ruin him.
Writing Style
• Fitzgerald is considered as a great stylist in American literature. His style, closely related to his themes, is explicit and chilly. His accurate dialogues, his careful observation of mannerism, styles, models and attitudes provide the reader with a vivid sense of reality. He used the scenic method in his chapters, each one of which consists of one or more dramatic scenes, sometimes with intervening passages of narration, leaving the tedious process of transition to the readers„ imagination. • Fitzgerald„s prose is smooth, sensitive, and completely original in its diction and metaphors.