王守仁《英国文学选读》笔记和课后习题详解-E
英国文学选读课后答案
The Tiger P501.Why does the poet mention the Lamb? Do you think both the Lamb and the Ti ger canilluminate each other?The Tyger is corresponding to The Lamb. Both the poems show the poet ’s exploration, understanding and plaint of the mysterious creation. In this poem, the author implies that the Tiger is created by God as well as the Lamb. S o either the Tiger or the Lamb is essential to God. I think both the Lamb and the Tiger can illuminate each other. Although the Lamb can represent the kind “innocent society”, it will be lack of enough motivation to make progress. While the Tiger will caus e social misery, unrest or even disruption, but it can make people release their creativity. So the poet believes that the Tiger is the symbol of strength and courage. And he also praises its passion, desire and all the lofty beauty.2.What is the symbolic meaning of the tiger? What idea does the poet want to express?The symbol of the Tyger is one of the two central mysteries of the poem (the other being the Tyger ’s creator). It is unclear what it exactly symbolizes, but scholars have hypothesized that the Tyger could be inspiration, the divine, artistic creation, history, the sublime (the big, mysterious, powerful and sometimes scary. Read more on this in the "Themes and Quotes" section), or vision itself. Really, the list is almost infinite. The point is, the Tyger is important, and Blake’s poem barely limits the possibilities The tiger is the embodiment of God's power in creation: the animal is terrifying in its beauty, strength, complexity and vitality. The poem is divided into six parts. In the first part, the author imagined that he met a terrible tiger on a dark night and was frightened by its awful eyesight. There are creations and creators. How great the creator is that he could create such an awful creation like tiger! In the second part, the author continues to ask, where comes the eyesight like fire, sea or sky? The following two parts, the author describes the creator as a smith. He creates the tiger. What behind the questions is the frightening and respect of the author to the creator. In the fif th part, the author changes his tone and asks when the stars throw down their spears, why they are not happy? The last part is as same as the first part, the creator is too mysterious to understand. The tiger shows its outstanding energy. It’s the vitality which the author thinks highly of. The key sentence of the poem is "Did he who made the Lamb make thee?" It challenges the one-track religious views of the 18 ’s century. The view only concluded that god create the lame, he is so kind a father. But it didn ’t know god also create the tough tiger. He can also be very serious. The god is someone who can’t be truly understood by human beings.Ode to the West Wind P83西风颂第一节哦，狂暴的西风，秋之生命的呼吸！你无形，但枯死的落叶被你横扫，有如鬼魅碰到了巫师，纷纷逃避：黄的，黑的，灰的，红得像患肺痨，呵，重染疫疠的一群：西风呵，是你以车驾把有翼的种子催送到黑暗的冬床上，它们就躺在那里，像是墓中的死穴，冰冷，深藏，低贱，直等到春天，你碧空的姊妹吹起她的喇叭，在沉睡的大地上响遍，唤出嫩芽，像羊群一样，觅食空中）将色和香充满了山峰和平原。
王守仁英国文学选读课后答案
1. Heroic Couplet:A rhyming couplet of iambic pentameter, often “closed”, containing a complete thought, there being a fairly heavy pause at the end of the first line and a still heavier one at the end of the second. Commonly there is a parallel or antithesis within a line, or between the two lines.2. Dramatic monologue is a type of poem writing style in which a character, at some specific and critical moment, addresses an identifiable but silent audience, thereby unintentionally revealing his or her essential temperament and personality.（是一种诗的写作形式，是使一个角色在一些特殊的决定性时刻作为可辨认的但沉默的观众，由此无意的显示他或她的基本脾性。
）3. Blank verse is poetry written in regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always iambic pentameters. It has been described as "probably the most common and influential form that English poetry has taken since the 16th century.4. Iambic Pentameter: a poetic line consisting of five verse feet, with each foot an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, that is, with each foot an iamb.5. Sonnet（十四行诗）: an exact form of poetry in 14 lines of iambic pentameter intricately rhymed, was introduced to England from Italy。
王守仁《英国文学选读》(第3版)课后习题详解(第2单元 威廉
第2单元威廉•莎士比亚Hamlet1.Why sleep is so frightening,according to Hamlet,since it can“end”“the heartache and the thousand natural shocks”?Key:Death means the end of life.If he dies,he may go to an unknown world and can never come back.In this sense,Hamlet cannot take revenge on his uncle for his father,failing to realize his will.Though“sleep”can end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks,it is a state of mind that Hamlet doesn’t know at all.He is frightened by the possible suffering in the long“dream”.He can’t predict what will happen in the sleep,may be good may be evil.2.Why would people rather bear all the sufferings of the world instead of choosing death to get rid of them,according to Hamlet?Key:According to Hamlet,because that people don’t know what lying there waiting for them in the unknown world,maybe something more terrible than that in the mortal world.3.What,after all,makes people lose their determination to take action?Please explain in relation to the so-called hesitation of Hamlet.Key:It is the fear for the unknown world after death and the lack of confidence for the future make people loose determination to take action.Hamlet doesn’tknow what would happen if he kills his uncle or kills himself,so he is hesitated. However,Hamlet’s hesitation should be seen from a different point of view.The main reason lies in his concern for his nation.Hamlet is a true man.He wants to change the dark existing world,but it is beyond his ability,so he has no idea what he should do.He knows his death can’t solve the problems deeply rooted in the society.So he hesitated about what he should do as the prince of Demark.His revenge is not everything for him.And he clearly knows that the sudden death of king may cause some disorders in the country.Thus he is confused about his action.Romeo and Juliet1.What does Romeo compare Juliet to in the beginning passage of the selection? Key:Romeo compares Juliet to the sun.2.What is Romeo and Juliet’s attitude toward being a Montague or a Capulet? Key:They think that since their family names hinder them from loving each other, they prefer that the names Montague and Capulet have nothing to do with themselves and even give them up.3.What does Romeo mean when he says“Look thou but sweet,/And I am proof against their enmity”?Key:It means that Romeo loves Juliet so much that he thinks that the love canprotect him from harm and dissolve the hatred between their families.Sonnet181.How does the poet answer the question he puts forth in the first line?Key:The poet thinks that he should not“compare thee to a summer’s day”, because“Thou art more lovely and more temperate”.And,in the following part, he gives his reasons.2.What makes the poet think that“thou”can be more beautiful(fair)than summer and immortal?Key:Because the poet thinks that“thy eternal summer shall not fade”for they will be preserved and perpetuated in the lines he writes.。
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第二部分章节题库第1单元杰弗里·乔叟Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks.1. The Canterbury Tales contains in fact a general prologue and only _____ tales, of which two are left unfinished.【答案】24【解析】乔叟的代表作《坎特伯雷故事集》计划写120个故事，但最后只完成总序和24个故事，其中两个未完成。
2. The Canterbury T ales contains the _____ and 24 tales, two of which left unfinished. 【答案】General Prologue【解析】乔叟的代表作《坎特伯雷故事集》包括总序和24个故事，其中两个未完成。
3. Chaucer employed the _____ couplet in writing his greatest work The Canterbury Tales.【答案】heroic【解析】乔叟在《坎特伯雷故事集》中使用了英雄双韵体（heroic couplet）4. The _____ provides a framework for the tales in The Canterbury T ales, and itcomprises a group of vivid pictures of various medieval figures.【答案】Prologue【解析】《坎特伯雷故事集》的序言部分提供整本书的基本框架，生动地刻画了一群各种各样的中世纪人物画卷。
5. In The Canterbury Tales, from the character of _____, we may see a very vividsketch of a woman of the middle class, and a colorful picture of the domestic life of that class in Chaucer’s own day.【答案】the Wife of Bath【解析】《坎特伯雷故事集》中，乔叟通过对来自中产阶级的巴斯夫人的生动细腻的描写，展示了当时中产阶级多彩的生活画卷。
王守仁《英国文学选读》(第4版)配套题库【考研真题精选+章节题库】(1-13章)【圣才出品】
第1单元杰弗里·乔叟Ⅰ.Fill in the blanks.1.The Canterbury Tales contains in fact a general prologue and only_____tales,of which two are left unfinished.【答案】24【解析】乔叟的代表作《坎特伯雷故事集》计划写120个故事，但最后只完成总序和24个故事，其中两个未完成。
2.The Canterbury Tales contains the_____and24tales,two of which left unfinished.【答案】General Prologue【解析】乔叟的代表作《坎特伯雷故事集》包括总序和24个故事，其中两个未完成。
3.Chaucer employed the_____couplet in writing his greatest work The Canterbury Tales.【答案】heroic【解析】乔叟在《坎特伯雷故事集》中使用了英雄双韵体（heroic couplet）4.The_____provides a framework for the tales in The Canterbury Tales,and itcomprises a group of vivid pictures of various medieval figures.【答案】Prologue【解析】《坎特伯雷故事集》的序言部分提供整本书的基本框架，生动地刻画了一群各种各样的中世纪人物画卷。
5.In The Canterbury Tales,from the character of_____,we may see a very vividsketch of a woman of the middle class,and a colorful picture of the domestic life of that class in Chaucer’s own day.【答案】the Wife of Bath【解析】《坎特伯雷故事集》中，乔叟通过对来自中产阶级的巴斯夫人的生动细腻的描写，展示了当时中产阶级多彩的生活画卷。
王守仁《英国文学选读》（第4版）配套题库-章节题库-第4、5单元【圣才出品】
王守仁《英国⽂学选读》（第4版）配套题库-章节题库-第4、5单元【圣才出品】第4单元17世纪英国诗⼈Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks.1. In the Revolution Period _____ towers over his age as William Shakespeare towers over the Elizabethan Age and as Chaucer towers over the Medieval Period.【答案】John Milton【解析】在英国资产阶级⾰命期间，约翰·弥尔顿可与伊丽莎⽩时代的莎⼠⽐亚和中世纪的乔叟相媲美。
2. The poems of John Donne belong to two categories: the _____ and the later _____. 【答案】youthful love lyrics；sacred verses【解析】受⽣活经历的影响，约翰·多恩的诗歌可分为两部分：年轻有活⼒的爱情诗和庄严的宗教诗。
3. In 1637 Milton wrote the finest pastoral elegy in English, _____, to memorize the tragic death of a Cambridge friend.【答案】Lycidas【解析】Lycidas是英国诗⼈⽶尔顿年轻时为溺海夭亡的剑桥同学⾦（Edward King）写的⼀⾸悼诗。
4. About the beginning of the 17th century appeared a school of poets called “ _____” by Samuel Johnson, the 18th century writer.【答案】Metaphysicals【解析】⾸先⽤“⽞学派”这名词的是18世纪英国诗⼈、批评家德莱顿。
王守仁《英国文学选读》(第4版)配套题库-章节题库-第6、7单元【圣才出品】
第6单元浪漫主义诗人(1)Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks.1. “Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:I will luve thee still, my dear,While the sands o’ life shall run.”The above verse lines are taken from the famous poem _____.【答案】A Red, Red Rose【解析】上述诗行出自罗伯特·彭斯的抒情短诗《一朵红红的玫瑰》（A Red, Red Rose）。
2. _____ wrote some patriotic poems, in which he expressed his deep love for his motherland, such as My Heart’s in the Highlands.【答案】Robert Burns【解析】罗伯特·彭斯是苏格兰的民族诗人。
他的诗歌充满了激进的民主、自由的思想他的诗歌歌颂了故国家乡的秀美，抒写了劳动者纯朴的友谊和爱情。
例如，《一朵红红的玫瑰》《友谊天长地久》《我的心在高原》等。
3. The author of “The Tiger” is _____.【答案】William Blake【解析】威廉·布莱克是英国第一位重要的浪漫主义诗人，《老虎》是其诗作之一。
4. In _____, we find particularly Blake’s hate of the church and the clergy. In the poem A Little Boy Lost, he attacks religious persecution.【答案】Songs of Experience【解析】威廉·布莱克一生都保持着宗教、政治和艺术上的激进倾向。
王守仁英国文学选读课后
1. Heroic Couplet:A rhyming couplet of iambic pentameter, often “closed”, containing a complete thought, there being a fairly heavy pause at the end of the first line and a still heavier one at the end of the second. Commonly there is a parallel or antithesis within a line, or between the two lines.2. Dramatic monologue is a type of poem writing style in which a character, at some specific and critical moment, addresses an identifiable but silent audience, thereby unintentionally revealing his or her essential temperament and personality.（是一种诗的写作形式，是使一个角色在一些特殊的决定性时刻作为可辨认的但沉默的观众，由此无意的显示他或她的基本脾性。
）3. Blank verse is poetry written in regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always iambic pentameters. It has been described as "probably the most common and influential form that English poetry has taken since the 16th century.4. Iambic Pentameter: a poetic line consisting of five verse feet, with each foot an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, that is, with each foot an iamb.5. Sonnet（十四行诗）: an exact form of poetry in 14 lines of iambic pentameter intricately rhymed, was introduced to England from Italy。
英国文学选读 听课笔记加思考
英国文学选读听课笔记加思考（7月26日）朝花夕拾2010-07-26 21:11:32 阅读350 评论0 字号：大中小订阅1、爱情故事中男女主人公如果没有遇到困难，不算得上爱情故事。
因此写爱情故事最容易，就是设置障碍，如社会等级差异；主人公的误解、移情别恋；战争、灾难使两人天涯相隔等等，如果这些困难都被克服，没关系，到最后女主角或男主角总会有一方得绝症死掉的。
2、现在没有爱情文学，只有调情文学。
我们越来越难为爱情感动，创作者又要爱情故事好看，只能用到的手法是：调情flirtation。
3、杰弗里·乔叟（Geoffrey Chaucer，1340年－1400年），英国中世纪著名作家乔叟是继但丁后最能充分的表现出中世纪文学精神的人，绝对可以说是中世纪最棒的诗人。
事实上，很多英国文学上的历史学者和批评家断言到现代为止只有Shakespeare可以超越他。
其著作有Book of the Duchesse《公爵夫人之书1369》、The house of Fame《声誉之宫1374-1382》、Parlement of Foules《百鸟会议1381-82》、《贤妇传说》、《特洛伊罗斯与克丽西达》，以及《坎特伯雷故事集》（The Canterbury Tales）4、《坎特伯雷故事集》（The Canterbury Tales）是一部诗体短篇小说集。
故事叙说有29名朝圣者（pilgrims）聚集在伦敦一家客店，整装前往70英里外的坎特伯雷（Canterbury）。
店主哈里?贝利自告奋勇担任导游，并在晚饭后提议在往返途中每人各讲两个故事，以解五天旅途中的无聊寂寞，看谁的故事讲得最好，可以免费吃一餐好饭。
这些朝圣者，有骑士、僧侣、侍从、商人、匠人、纺织匠、医生、地主、农夫、海员、家庭主妇等，代表了广泛的社会阶层。
他们讲述的内容，主要包括爱情和骑士探险传奇、宗教和道德故事、滑稽故事、动物寓言等24个故事，大多数的故事都是用双韵诗体写成的。
王守仁《英国文学选读》（第4版）配套题库【考研真题精选+章节题库】（14-28章）【圣才出品】
王守仁《英国文学选读》（第4版）配套题库【考研真题精选+章节题库】（14-28章）【圣才出品】第14单元约瑟夫·康拉德Ⅰ.Fill in the blanks.1.Write down the first novel written by Joseph Conrad_____.【答案】Almayer’s Folly【解析】康拉德的第一部小说是1895年出版的《阿尔迈耶的愚蠢》。
2.Heart of Darkness opens in the setting:_____.【答案】A boat on the Thames River【解析】开篇《黑暗之心》的背景是在泰晤士河上。
3.Kurtz’s last words are_____.【答案】“The horror!The horror!”【解析】《黑暗之心》中库兹说的最后一句话是“The horror!The horror!”Ⅱ.Short answer questions1.Rudyard Kipling,E.M.Forster,and Joseph Conrad all wrote about colonial experiences.How did they differ from each other in portraying colonial existence?Key:Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936)wrote many short stories about Anglo-Indian life and colonial experience.Kipling preached the tough law of jungle existence. Personal honor and prowess,and the absoluteness of power,are what readers get from The Jungle Book and Just So Stories.The same colonial experience in India is rendered quite differently by E.M. Forster.Forster found a new richness in Anglo-Indian existence,the intersection of race,class,and politics.Kipling and Forster’s engagement with the mystery and horror of colonial experience,however,would pale in comparisonwith that of Joseph Conrad.The geographical journey toward inland Africa is paralleled by the symbolic journey toward the murkiest core of human evil and misery.2.What are the features of Joseph Conrad’s works?Key:(1)Writing in what to the visual arts was the age of Impressionism,Conrad showed himself in many of his works a prose poet of the highest order.Conrad stated that,“Art itself may be defined as a single-minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe,by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one,underlyin g its every aspect.(2)Conrad’s writing language English is his third language after Polish and French.This makes his English seem unusual.It was perhaps from Polish and French styles that he adopted a fondness for triple parallelism,especially in his early works,as well as rhetorical abstraction an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention.(3)Also,because of his early experience,Conrad often wrote about life on the sea or in exotic parts than about life on British land because,he knew little about everyday domestic relations in Britain.Conrad is highly conscious of tragedy.In keeping with his skepticism andmelancholy,Conrad almost invariably gives lethal fates to the characters in his principal novels and stories.Almayer(Almayer’s Folly,1894),abandoned by his beloved daughter,takes to opium,and dies;Peter Willems(An Outcast of the Islands,1895)is killed by his jealous lover A?ssa;the ineffectual“Nigger”,James Wait(The Nigger of the‘Narcissus’,1897),dies aboard ship and is buried at sea; Mr.Kurtz(Heart of Darkness,1899)expires,uttering the words,“The horror!The horror”;Tuan Jim(Lord Jim,1900),having inadvertently precipitated a massacre of his adoptive community,deliberately walks to his death at the handsof the community’s leader.第15单元20世纪英国诗人(1)Ⅰ.Fill in the blanks.1.At the end of19th century,the influence of the problem plays of the great Norwegian dramatist,Henrik Ibsen,and_____(i.e.a revival of interest in the Irish language and literature in Ireland)combined to bring about a dramatic movement in Ireland.【答案】the Irish Renaissance【解析】20世纪文学的第一个成就是戏剧创作上的突破。
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18.1复习笔记E.M.Forster(1879-1970)(E•M•福斯特)1.Life(生平)EdwardMorganForster,novelist,essayist,critic,wasborninamiddle-classfamilyinLondon.Hisfatherwasanarchitectanddiedsoonafterhewasborn.LivingatRooksnest,Stevenage,whichlaterinspiredHowardsEnds,youngEdwardwasraisedbyhismotherandaunts.Aprecociousyoungman,hestartedwritingstoriesatsix.HeattendedtheTonbridgeSchoolinKentCounty.ThenhewentontostudyatKing’sCollege,Cambridge,whereheenjoyedtheatmosphereofintellectualfreedomandreceivedhisBachelorofArtsin1900.HejoinedgroupsliketheApostlesandlaterBloomsbury.AyearoftravelinItalyandGreecewithhismotherfollowed,providingmaterialforhisearlynovels.HisHowardsEndsandAPassagetoIndiaestablishhimasoneofthemostsignificant20thcenturyBritish
novelists.In1927hedeliveredtheClarklecturesatCambridgeprintedthesameyearasAspectsoftheNovel.HemaintainedresidenceatCambridgeuntilhisdeathin1970.爱德华·摩根·福斯特是小说家，散文家和评论家。他出生于伦敦中产家庭。父亲是一位建筑师，在他出生没多久就离世。福斯特由母亲和姑姑养大，住在斯蒂夫尼奇的叫Rooksnest的屋子，是他小说《霍华兹别墅》的原型。早熟的福斯特6岁就开始写故事。他先在肯特2/13
十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台圣才电子书www.100xuexi.com郡的汤布里奇学校上学，后进入剑桥大学国王学院，十分喜爱那里自由的学术氛围，并在
1900年获得文学学士学位。他参加了剑桥使徒社，后加入布鲁姆斯伯里文化圈。随后和母亲前往意大利和希腊游历一年，为他早期小说提供了素材。《霍华兹别墅》和《印度之行》使福斯特成为20世纪英国最重要小说家之一。1927年他主持剑桥克拉克讲座，讲稿后来出版为《小说面面观》。福斯特一直住在剑桥直至1970年去世。
2.MajorWorks(主要作品)WhereAngelsFeartoTread(1905)《天使不敢涉足的地方》
TheLongestJourney(1907)《最长的旅行》
ARoomwithaView(1908)《一间看得见风景的房间》
HowardsEnd(1910)《霍华兹别墅》
APassagetoIndia(1924)《印度之行》
AspectsoftheNovel(1927)《小说面面观》
3.SelectedWork(作品选读)“TheRoadfromColonus”《离开科罗诺斯之路》
(1)Plot(情节)Mr.Lucas,anoldEnglishman,alwaysdreamtofvisitingGreece.Asindeclininghealth,hedecidedtogotherewithhisdaughterEthel.Occasionally,Mr.Lucasfoundamysteriousgreatoldhollowtree.Hedecidednottoleave,andsaidheplannedtostayataninnneartheoldtree,buttheotherswerehorrified,andforcedhimtoleavewiththem.BackinEngland,sometimelater,Ethelwasnowabouttobe3/13
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abouteverything.ThenagiftarrivedfromafriendinGreece,wrappedinaGreeknewspaper.InitEthelreadthenewsthatonthenighttheyleft,theoldtreewasblowndown,andfellonthefamilywhokepttheinnnearby,killingthemall.Ethelwasupset,andsaidhowluckyitwasthattheyhadn’tstayedtherethatnight,callingita“marvellousdeliverance”,butMr.Lucasdismissedthestorywithoutinterest.Henolongercared.故事主人公卢卡斯先生与女儿埃塞尔去希腊路行途中，偶然在科罗诺斯发现一处树穴，让他领悟到前所未有的生活真谛，因此他很想在大树附近的小旅店住下，不肯与其他英国游客一起离开。埃塞尔劝说不果后，在其他旅客的帮助下，将他强行带走。回到英国之后，埃塞尔结婚了，而卢卡斯先生则是满腹牢骚，总在抱怨。埃塞尔偶然从报纸上得知，就在他们离开科罗诺斯的当晚，在卢卡斯先生曾经坚持要停留的地方，狂风吹倒了大树，附近小旅店中的人全被压死了，卢卡斯先生却对这一消息无动于衷。
(2)Theme(主题)In“TheRoadfromColonus”,ForsterusesintertextualitybycomparingMr.LucasandhisdaughtertoOedipusandAntigone,whoarethetwomaincharactersinSophocles’OedipusatColonus.OedipuswasthekingofThebes,whokilledhisfatherandmarriedhismother.Withgreatsorrowandregret,heblindedandexiledhimself.However,hepreservedhisdeterminationanddignityathisoldagebystayingatColonusinsteadofobeyingAntigone’spersuasion.Onthecontrary,Mr.Lucaseventuallylosthiscontrolofhisownlife.Thenovelrevealstherelationships4/13
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helplessnessoftheoldpeople.Forstercallsontheyoungpeopletounderstandandshowrespectfortheelderly.在《离开科罗诺斯之路》中，福斯特运用互文，将卢卡斯先生和女儿与索福克勒斯《俄狄浦斯在科罗诺斯》中的主人公俄狄浦斯和安提戈涅进行比较。俄狄浦斯是底比斯王，他年轻时弑父娶母。由于极其伤痛和悔恨，他弄瞎双眼，放逐自己。然而老年时，俄狄浦斯依然保持了自己的决断和尊严，不听女儿的劝阻，坚持留在科罗诺斯终老。相反，卢卡斯先生却最终失去了对自己人生的掌控。小说揭示了不同年龄层次的人之间的关系，将人到老年的孤寂与无奈刻画得入木三分。福斯特呼吁年轻人理解并尊重老人。
HowardsEnd《霍华兹别墅》
(1)Plot(情节)Thestorycentersontheliterary,culturalSchlegelfamilyandthematerialistic,commerce-obsessedWilcoxes.Mrs.Wilcox,whobequeathedHowardsEndtoMargaret,Helen’soldersisterandheadoftheSchlegelfamily.Butherpragmatichusband,Henry,aprominentbusinessman,andhergreedysonCharlesrefusedtoactonthematter.LaterHenryandMargaretmarried.Meetingbychance,HelenadvicedLeonardtoleavetheinsurancecompany,whichwasdoomedtobankruptcy.Leonardfoundanewjobbutwassoonfiredwithoutincome.TheyhavesexandHelenbecamepregnant.WhenLeonardarrivedatHowardsEndtoconfess,hewasbeatenbyCharlesanddiedofaheartattack.Intheend,HenrygaveHowardsEndtoMargaret,whogaveittoHelen’sson.