F.S Fitzgerald菲茲杰羅德.ppt

1、Made by group 15,F Scott Fitzgerald,1）Life and Career 2）Works 3）The Jazz Age Roaring Twenties American Dream The Lost Generation 4）Writing Style 5）The Great Gatsby,Major Topics,Life experience,Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in St.Paul, on September 24, 1896. Raised in St. Paul, Minnesota,he did p

2、oorly in school and was sent to New Jersey boarding school in 1911. He was educated at Princeton University in 1913.There he was surrounded by people richer, more sophisticated than he was. He felt inferior(劣勢的) to his classmates. But he cut a figure on the football field and made a place for himsel

3、f in the university literary groups,Enlisted in the army in 1917,he became a second lieutenant(少尉), and was stationed at Camp Sheridan, in Montgomery, Alabama, where he met and fell in love with Zelda Sayre. Zelda, a wild 17-year-old beauty who was crazy for wealth, fun and leisure, agreed to marry

4、him as long as he could prove a success,He published his first novel This Side of Paradise(1920), and became a literary sensation(轟動) ，earning enough money and fame to convince Zelda to marry him.Then he published his famous works: The great Gatsby(1925) Tender is the night (1934),In 1930 Zelda suff

5、ered several nervous breakdowns and was later diagnosed as schizophrenia（精神分裂癥）. This was repeated and she was placed in a sanitarium（療養(yǎng)院） in 1932. He died of heart attack while working on his last novel, The Last Tycoon,弗司各特菲茨杰拉德 1896年9月24日菲茲杰拉德生于明尼蘇達(dá)州圣保羅市。父親是家具商。他年輕時(shí)試寫過劇本。讀完高中后考入普林斯頓大學(xué)。在校時(shí)曾自組劇團(tuán)，并為

6、校內(nèi)文學(xué)刊物寫稿。后因身體欠佳，中途輟學(xué)。 1917年菲茲杰拉德入伍，終日忙于軍訓(xùn)，未曾出國打仗。 1920年菲茲杰拉德出版了長篇小說人間天堂，從此出了名，小說出版后他與吉姍爾達(dá)結(jié)婚。婚后攜妻寄居巴黎，結(jié)識了安德遜、海明威等多位美國作家。 1925年了不起的蓋茨比問世，奠定了他在現(xiàn)代美國文學(xué)史上的地位，成了20年代“爵士時(shí)代”的發(fā)言人和“迷惘的一代”的代表作家之一。吉珊爾達(dá)對他的生活與創(chuàng)作影響很大，他的小說里許多女主人公都有她的面影,1934年菲茨杰拉爾德出版了另一部重要的長篇小說夜色溫柔，成功地表現(xiàn)了上層資產(chǎn)者的自私與腐化，對主人公的沉淪滿懷同情。但評論界對它反應(yīng)冷淡。 1936年不幸染上肺

7、病，妻子又一病不起，使他幾乎無法創(chuàng)作，精神瀕于崩潰，終日酗酒。 1940年12月21日菲茲杰拉德迸發(fā)心臟病，死于洛杉磯，年僅44歲,This Side of Paradise (life in Princeton, frustration of young men) The Beautiful and the Damned (love story with Zelda) The Great Gatsby (masterpiece) Tender is the Night The Last Tycoon (unfinished,Major Works,The Great Gatsby,The B

8、eautiful and Damned 美女和被詛咒的人,This Side of the Paradise天堂的這一邊,Jazz Age爵士時(shí)代,Tender and the Night 夜色溫柔,The Last Tycoon最后的大亨,works,劇本：美女和被詛咒的人、偉大的蓋茨比、生死同心、女人、亂世佳人、居里夫人、我最后一次看到巴黎、綺夢初艷等長篇小說：最后一個大亨、明智的事、了不起的蓋茨比、夜色溫柔、最后一個巨頭、天堂的這一邊、人間天堂等短片小說：姑娘們與哲學(xué)家們、爵土?xí)r代的故事、富家公子、本杰明巴頓奇特的一生、伯妮斯剪發(fā)、遺失的十年等,Roaring Twenties,Roar

9、ing Twenties,The Roaring Twenties is a phrase used to describe the 1920s. The phrase was meant to emphasize the periods social, artistic, and cultural dynamism. The spirit of the Roaring Twenties was marked by a general feeling of discontinuity associated with modernity, a break with traditions,Ever

10、ything seemed to be feasible through modern technology. Formal decorative frills were shed in favor of practicality in both daily life and architecture. At the same time, jazz and dancing rose in popularity, in opposition to the mood of the specter of World War I. As such, the period is also often r

11、eferred to as the Jazz Age,The Jazz Age,1920s Music,Jazz(爵士樂), Ragtime(拉格泰姆) and Broadway musicals（百老匯音樂?。?were features of 1920s music,1920s Music,Jazz is a musical tradition and style of music that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern Unit

12、ed States from a confluence of African and European music traditions,1920s Literature,Literature of the times captured the changes in Society.Authors of the period struggled to understand the changes occurring in society. While some writers praised the changes others expressed disappointment in the

13、passing of the old ways. As the average American in the 1920s became more enamored of wealth and everyday luxuries, some began satirizing the hypocrisy and greed they observed,The American Dream is the idea held by many in the United States of America that through hard work, courage, and determinati

14、on one can achieve financial and personal success. These were values held by many early European settlers, and have been passed down to subsequent generations,The American Dream,Lost Generation,Group of expatriate American writers residing primarily in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s. The group nev

15、er formed a cohesive literary movement, but it consisted of many influential American writers. Its name was given by Gertrude Stein, who, used an expression a lost generation, to refer to expatriate Americans bitter about their World War I experiences and disillusioned with American society,Writing

16、Style,Many of Fitzgeralds works are half autobiography properties. Because he married with a typical south woman, Fitzgerald showed interest in the southern United States in his novels. Fitzgerald created a kind of refreshing literature feminine image in his novels. They were trendy, independent and

17、 attractive. In the other hand, they had the courage to pursue their happiness at any cost,Fitzgeralds novels got praise of the field. But in fact, his short stories give him a commercial success and get him to win the general public recognition, rather than his novels. Fitzgeralds short stories are

18、 generally strong entertaining. They often own O. Henrys typical unexpected ending. If you read them, they will make you into great enjoyment,The Great Gatsby,賞 析,Gatsby is a poor youth from the Midwest. He falls in love with Daisy, a girl from a wealthy family. Gatsby is too poor to marry her, so D

19、aisy is married to a rich young man named Tom . Determined to win Daisy back, Gatsby engages himself in Bootlegging(違法的) and other illegal activities. Then he hosts dazzling parties every weekend in the hope of attracting the Buchanans to come. By chance his next-door neighbor, Nick Carraway, is Dai

20、sys relative and he helps Gatsby to make an appointment. They finally come and Gatsby meets Daisy again. But he finds Daisy is no longer the ideal love of his dream,The plot of the great Gatsby,故事情節(jié) 年輕時(shí)的蓋茨比并不富有，他是一個少尉軍官。他愛上了一位叫黛茜的姑娘，黛茜對他也情有所鐘。后來第一次世界大戰(zhàn)爆發(fā)，蓋茨比被調(diào)往歐洲。似是偶然卻也是必然，黛茜因此和他分手，轉(zhuǎn)而與一個出身于富豪家庭的紈绔子弟

21、湯姆結(jié)了婚。黛茜婚后的生活并不幸福，因?yàn)闇妨碛星閶D。物欲的滿足并不能填補(bǔ)黛西精神上的空虛。蓋茨比痛苦萬分，他堅(jiān)信是金錢讓黛茜背叛了心靈的貞潔，于是立志要成為富翁。幾年以后，蓋茨比終于成功了。他在黛茜府邸的對面建造起了一幢大廈。蓋茨比揮金如土，徹夜笙簫，一心想引起黛茜的注意，以挽回失去的愛情。 尼克為蓋茨比的癡情所感動，便去拜訪久不聯(lián)系的遠(yuǎn)房表妹黛茜，并向她轉(zhuǎn)達(dá)蓋茨比的心意。黛茜在與蓋茨比相會中時(shí)時(shí)有意挑逗。蓋茨比昏昏然聽她隨意擺布，并且天真地以為那段不了情有了如愿的結(jié)局。然而真正的悲劇卻在此時(shí)悄悄啟幕。茜早已不是舊日的黛茜。黛茜不過將她倆目前的暖昧關(guān)系，當(dāng)做一種刺激。尼克終于有所察覺，但為時(shí)已晚。一次黛茜在心緒煩亂的狀態(tài)下開車，偏偏軋死了丈夫的情婦。蓋茨比為保護(hù)黛茜，承擔(dān)了開車責(zé)任，但黛茜已打定主意拋棄蓋茨比。 在湯姆的挑撥下，致使其情婦的丈夫開槍打死了蓋茨比。蓋茨比最終徹底成為了犧牲品。蓋茨比至死都沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)黛茜臉上嘲弄的微笑。蓋茨比的悲劇在于他把一切都獻(xiàn)給了自己編織的美麗夢想，而黛茜作為他理想的化身，卻只徒有美麗的軀殼。盡管黛西早已移情別戀,盡管他清楚地聽出“她的聲音充滿了金錢”,卻仍不改初衷,固執(zhí)地追求重溫舊夢然。