2018研究生招生考试英美文学与翻译试题.pdf

**大学2018 年全国硕士研究生招生考试试题 科目代码：827 科目名称：英美文学与翻译 【考生注意】所有答题内容均须写在专用答题纸上，在本试题上作答无效。 PART ONE: ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE (75 POINTS) I. The following is an excerpt from Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar (III. ii). Analyze how Antony craftily manipulates the plebeians’ attitudes towards Brutus and towards the murdered Julius Caesar (20 points): Antony Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: The evil that men do lives after them; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: The good is oft interred with their bones; Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus And Brutus is an honourable man. Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: You all did see that on the Lupercal If it were so, it was a grievous fault, I thrice presented him a kingly crown, And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it. Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest— Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; For Brutus is an honourable man; And, sure, he is an honourable man. So are they all, all honourable men— I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral. But here I am to speak what I do know. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: You all did love him once, not without cause: But Brutus says he was ambitious;