William Makepeace Thackeray课件.ppt

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 – 1863) 威廉·梅克皮斯·萨克雷 匹 比  I General Comment novelist, poet one of the greatest Victorian novelist a representative of critical realism in 19th century England 英国杰出的现实主义小说家 a social satirist by this time, his popularity rivaled that of Dickens some of his poems are among the best of the kind II Life born in Calcutta, India, the only child of an English official in the Indian Civil Service 6, father died, sent to England from India preparatory schools (which he hated), public school at the Charterhouse (where he was more miserable by bullying and flogging) 1829, Cambridge, remained more than a year displayed a talent for cartoon-drawing and edited a student newspaper the Snob, and wrote for it lasting friendship with Tennyson left Cambridge for bored with the stagnant atmosphere, without a degree, traveled in Germany（认识歌德） , France and Italy (with the comfortable income form his father’s estate), going for art studies 1833, returned, studied for the bar, abandoned a year later, went into politics bought and edited a bourgeois newspaper The National Standard, lost a considerable sum of money the failure of an Indian bank where he had deposited his fortuned inherited form his father, left him without means and he turned to journalism for a living married, 2 of the 3 daughters survived, the 3rd died, wife deranged (sane, 30 longer), he looked after the family, couldn’t remarry, sad and lonely family life fell innocently in love with the wife of his friend Mr. Brookfield, lost companionship many open lecture (Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, even America) ill health, so sudden death (heart attack) 出身上层社会，熟悉统治阶级的思想和生活，从创作活动开始到结束，他都以资产阶级和贵族罪行的揭发者的姿态进行写作 III Works The only one read today: Vanity Fair 1837 – 1838, his first important success: The Yellowplush Correspondence 1846 – 1847, his first literary success: a ser