英语通识阅读教程 文学篇 课件 Unit 5 Growing Up and Pains.pptx

Unit5GrowingUpandPainsTextAOfHumanBondageTextBGreatExpectations

BeforeReadingAbouttheAuthorandHisWorksExploretheWriter’sIdeasUnderstandingtheTextReadingBetweentheLinesExploretheWriter’sTechniquesIncreaseYourLanguageProficiencyFurtherExplorationTextA

BeforeReadingWriter’sIdeasWriter’sTechniquesLanguageProficiencyFurtherExploration1.AbouttheAuthorBiographyLiteraryStylesandThemes2.AboutHisWorksRepresentativeWorks

BiographyWilliamSomersetMaugham(1874-1965)wasanEnglishplaywright,novelist,andshort-storywriter.Hewasamongthemostpopularwritersofhiseraand,reputedly,thehighest-paidwriterduringthe1930s.Hisworksarecharacterizedbyaclearunadornedstyle,cosmopolitansettings,andashrewdunderstandingofhumannature.Hisreputationasanovelistrestsprimarilyonfourbooks:OfHumanBondage,TheMoonandSixpence,CakesandAle,andTheRazor’sEdge.OfHumanBondage(1915)isasemi-autobiographicalaccountofayoungmedicalstudent’spainfulprogresstowardmaturity.1.AbouttheAuthor

BiographyLifeExperienceWilliamSomersetMaughamwasborntoEnglishparentsRobertOrmondMaughamandEdithMary,on25thJanuary1874,intheUKEmbassyinParis.Bothhisfatherandgrandfatherwerelawyers;hisfatherhandledlegalaffairsoftheBritishembassyinParis.AccordingtoFrenchlaw,allchildrenbornonFrenchsoilcouldbeenlistedcompulsorilyintothearmedforces.Therefore,hisfatherarrangedforWilliamtobebornattheembassy,sothattechnically,hewouldbebornonBritishsoil.1.AbouttheAuthor

BiographyLifeExperienceMaughamlostbothparentsataveryearlyageafterwhichhewassenttotheUKtolivewithhisuncle,HenryMcDonaldMaugham.HoweverhisuncleprovedtobecruelandunsympathetictoyoungWilliamandtheboywasdamagedpsychologically.Attheageof16,herefusedtocontinuehiseducationattheKing’sschoolanymore.Hisunclehadnoopti