综合英语大一Unit 5.ppt

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Unit 5 The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde About the author Oscar Wilde 奥斯卡·王尔德 Oscar Wilde’s early school years In 1871, Oscar was awarded a Royal School Scholarship to Trinity College in Dublin. Again, he did particularly well in Classics, earning first in his examinations in 1872 and earning the highest honor the College could bestow on an undergraduate - a Foundation Scholarship. In 1874, Oscar crowned his successes at Trinity with two final achievements.? He won the Colleges Berkeley Gold Medal for Greek and was awarded a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford. 1874-1878, He had a brilliant career at Oxford, where? he won the Prize for English verse for a poem. Even before he left the University in 1878 Wilde had become known as one of the most affected of the professors of the aesthetic craze, and for several years it was as the typical aesthete that he kept himself before the notice of the public. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish-born novelist, playwright, poet, and critic Known for witty, often paradoxical, sayings that lampoon the social modes and behavior of the English upper classes of his time Championing the aesthetic movement, which is based on the idea of art for art’s sake The Picture of Dorian Gray The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorians beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basils, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henrys world view. Espousing a new hedonism, Lord Henry suggests the only things worth pursuing in life are beauty and fulfillment of the senses. Realizing that one day his beauty will fade, Dorian (whimsically) expresses a desire to sell his soul to ensure the portrait Basil has painted would age rather than he. Dorians wish is fulfilled, plunging him into debauched acts. The portrait se

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