高级英语IIunit 2[精选].ppt

Unit Two Marrakech I. Background Information George Orwell: is the pseudonym or pen name of Eric Arthur Blair. He was born in 1903 and died in 1950. He is a British novelist and essayist between the two world wars. George Orwell He is mush praised in the west partly because of his anti-communist point of view. He was born in India, and his father, a so called empire-builder, served the British government abroad. George Orwell He received good education in Britain and studied in the most famous school “Eden”. He traveled widely. Marrakech is one of the places he traveled to. His travel made him take a hostile attitude toward imperialism. He showed deep sympathy for the poor and became a firm supporter of socialism. George Orwell He joined Spanish War. He was seriously wounded. The Spanish socialist forces divided into faction. The faction he belonged to was persecuted. So he became so pessimistic and depressed, which led him toward anti-communist attitude. WorkDuring most of his career, Orwell was best known for his journalism, in essays, reviews, columns in newspapers and magazines and in his books of reportage: Down and Out in Paris and London (describing a period of poverty in these cities), The Road to Wigan Pier (describing the living conditions of the poor in northern England, and the class divide generally) and Homage效忠 to Catalonia加泰罗尼亚（西班牙东北部一地区）. Modern readers are more often introduced to Orwell as a novelist, particularly through his enormously successful titles Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The former is often thought to reflect developments in the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution; the latter, life under totalitarian rule. Animal Farm: The short novel is an allegory in which animals play the roles of the Bolshevik revolutionaries and overthrow and oust the human owner of a farm (Manor Farm), renaming it Animal Farm and setting it up as a commune in which, at first, all animals are equal; however, class and status disparities