Unit-11-On-Self-Respect

1、Unit 11 On Self-Respect 新世紀(jì)高等院校英語(yǔ)專業(yè)本科生系列教材（修訂版）高級(jí)英語(yǔ)新世紀(jì)高等院校英語(yǔ)專業(yè)本科生系列教材（修訂版）高級(jí)英語(yǔ)1 1電子教案電子教案 3Detailed Reading Contents 2 4 5 1 6 Warm Up Global Reading Consolidation Activities Text Appreciation Further Enhancement Section 1: Warm Up Take the quiz below to determine how you really feel about yourself

2、in your life. Lead-inBackground Information 1) You just left a job interview. The interviewer was stern- faced and never smiled, and asked you several questions that you had no answer for. When you go home, the following thoughts go through your mind. a) Ill probably never get a job again in my whol

3、e life. b) I knew I couldnt possibly get that particular job. I shouldnt have applied for it. c) I didnt do my best on that interview. Ill look at how I could have answered the questions differently in order to prepare for my next interview. Quiz Section 1: Warm Up Lead-inBackground Information 2) Y

4、ou just completed a major project for your current employer. You worked very hard on this project and expected your boss to be impressed. Instead, he is critical and unappreciative. How do you react? a) I knew I wasnt capable of doing a good job. Ill never succeed again. b) I couldnt do any better t

5、han I did. Since he doesnt like it, that means I am a failure. c) You point out to your boss how hard you worked on it and why you feel you did well. Although you cant control his reaction, you can control your reaction to his reaction. Your sense of pride in the job you did remains unshaken. Sectio

6、n 1: Warm Up Lead-inBackground Information 3) You just went on the first blind date youve had in years. You were interested in a second date with this person, but (s)he made it clear that (s)he did not want to see you again. How do you react? a) Nobody is ever going to want me again. b) I dont know

7、why I thought (s)he would be interested in me. c) His/her loss! Section 1: Warm Up Lead-inBackground Information 4) An acquaintance you barely know compliments you on the way you look. How do you react? a) Do you need glasses? b) I dont think I look that great today, but thanks anyway. c) Thank you

8、very much. Section 1: Warm Up Lead-inBackground Information 5) You are working while going to school and are overwhelmed by household chores. Your family is content to sit back and let you take care of everything. What will you do? A) You take care of everything, getting more and more resentful ever

9、y day. B) You scream at everyone about how ungrateful they are, but continue to take care of it all. C) You assert that your family needs to pitch in and help and delegate chores to family members. Section 1: Warm Up Lead-inBackground Information Results of the Quiz v If you answered mostly As, your

10、 self-respect couldnt be lower. Your self-esteem is caught up in believing others are worth more than you are, and there is work to be done to build it back up. v If you answered mostly Bs, your self-respect issues are more focused on the situation at hand. There is still room for improvement. v If

11、you answered mostly Cs, youre definitely on the right track! Your sense of self-respect isnt dependent on what others think of you, and you have a healthy sense that you are a person of value. Section 1: Warm Up About the Author Joan Didion: An American author best known for her novels and her liter

12、ary journalism. In 1934, Joan Didion was born in Sacramento, California. In 1956, Didion graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in English. 1934- present Background Information Lead-in Section 1: Warm Up Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of Ameri

13、can morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation. Her novels include Run River (1963), A Book of Common Prayer (1977), Salvador (1983), Democracy (1984), and The Last Thing He Wanted (1996). Slouching toward Bethlehem is a 1968 collection of essays by

14、Joan Didion and mainly describes her experiences in California during the 1960s. The collection includes “On Self-Respect” which first appeared in 1961 in Vogue. Background Information Lead-in Section 1: Warm Up Background Information Lead-in Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment is a novel by R

15、ussian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex- student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash.- - Section 1: Warm Up Raskolnikov argues that with

16、 the pawnbrokers money he can p e r f o r m g o o d d e e d s t o counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a worthless parasite. He also commits this murder to test his own hypothesis that some people are naturally capable of such things, and even have the right to do them. Background In

17、formation Lead-in Section 1: Warm Up Background Information Lead-in The Great Gatsby and Jordon Baker The Great Gatsby is a novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. The author juxtaposes Nick Carraway, the novels narrator and moral compass, and Jay Gatsby, the charismatic racketeer and romantic

18、 idealist; to the married couple Daisy and Tom Buchanan, members of the established old money class who lack Nicks personal integrity and Gatsbys idealism. Section 1: Warm Up Background Information Lead-in Shown as “careless” bullies who smash lives as well as objects in their restless search for di

19、version, Daisy and Tom are admirably well suited to succeed in a world in which idealism is impossible and integrity is pass. The novel is a lyrical portrait of American values in the 1920s, the personal and moral corruption of a culture based on the social and moral prerogatives of wealth. Section

20、1: Warm Up Background Information Lead-in Jordan Baker is the woman in this story who connects Gatsby to Nick and consequently Gatsby to Daisy. She is Daisys friend, a woman with whom Nick becomes romantically involved during the course of the novel. A competitive golfer, Jordan represents one of th

21、e “new women” of the 1920scynical, boyish, and self-centered. Jordan is beautiful, but also dishonest: She cheated in order to win her first golf tournament and continually bends the truth. Section 1: Warm Up Background Information Lead-in Wuthering Heights and Cathy Wuthering Heights is the only pu

22、blished novel by Emily Bront. The title of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors of the story. Section 1: Warm Up Background Information Lead-in The narrative centers on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how th

23、is unresolved passion eventually destroys them and the people around them. Cathy (also known as “Catherine”) is the daughter of Mr. Earnshaw and his wife. Cathy falls powerfully in love with Heathcliff, the orphan Mr. Earnshaw brings home from Liverpool. However, her desire for social advancement mo

24、tivates her to marry Edgar Linton instead. She is given to fits of temper, and she is torn between her wild passion for Heathcliff and her social ambition. Section 2: Global Reading What is the text mainly about? Structural Analysis Main Idea In this article, the author lays emphasis on “self”, the

25、sense of ones intrinsic worth, and points out the problem of a “misplaced self-respect”, thus opening a new door for her readers, which differentiates her view of self-respect from that of many other writers. Section 2: Global Reading Please divide the text into 3 parts and summarize the main idea o

26、f each part. Structural Analysis Main Idea Part I(Paragraphs 1-5) Introduction In Paragraphs 1-5, the author introduces the major theme of the whole text, “Self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of others, with reputation or the face of things, but concerns a separate peace, a private reco

27、nciliation.” Part III (Paragraphs 11-12) Consequences of Lacking in Self-Respect Paragraphs 11 and 12 present the miserable situation where those who lack self-respect may find themselves as described in the previous paragraphs. Part II(Paragraphs 6-10) Essences of Self-Respect Paragraphs 6-10 elabo

28、rate the qualities people with self-respect should possess. To be specific, people with self- respect should have the courage of their mistakes, should be realistic and reasonable about their behavior, and should have self-discipline. Section 2: Global Reading Structural Analysis Main Idea Section 3

29、: Detailed Reading 1 Once in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking re

30、cord of its every tremor, I recall with embarrassing clarity the flavor of those particular ashes. It was a matter of misplaced self-respect. On Self-Respect Section 3: Detailed Reading 2 I had not been elected to Phi Beta Kappa. This failure could scarcely have been more predictable or less ambiguo

31、us (I simply did not have the grades), but I was unnerved by it; I had somehow thought myself a kind of academic Raskolnikov, curiously exempt from the cause-effect relationships which hampered others. Although even the humorless nineteen-year-old that I was must have recognized that the situation l

32、acked real tragic stature, the day I did not make Phi Beta Kappa nonetheless marked the end of something and innocence may well be the word for it. QUESTION Section 3: Detailed Reading I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive

33、virtues which had won me approval as a child automatically guaranteed me not only Phi Beta Kappa but happiness, honor, and the love of a good man; lost a certain touching faith in the totem power of good manners, clean hair, and proven competence on the Stanford-Binet scale. To such doubtful amulets

34、 had my self-respect been pinned, and I faced myself that day with the nonplussed apprehension of someone who has come across a vampire and has no crucifix at hand. Section 3: Detailed Reading 3 Although to be driven back upon oneself is an uneasy affair at best, rather like trying to cross a border

35、 with borrowed credentials, it seems to me now the one condition necessary to the beginnings of real self-respect. Most of our platitude notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in the very well-lit back alley where one ke

36、eps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions. Section 3: Detailed Reading One shuffles flashily but in vain through ones marked cardsthe kindness done for the wrong reason, the apparent triumph which involved no real effort, the seemingly

37、heroic act into which one had been shamed. The dismal fact is that self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of otherswho are, after all, deceived easily enough; has nothing to do with reputation, which, as Rhett Butler told Scarlett OHara, is something people with courage can do without. Sec

38、tion 3: Detailed Reading 4 To do without self-respect, on the other hand, is to be an unwilling audience of one to an interminable documentary that details ones failings, both real and imagined, with fresh footage spliced in for every screening. Theres the glass you broke in anger, theres the hurt o

39、n Xs face; watch now, this next scene, the night Y came back from Houston, see how you muff this one. Section 3: Detailed Reading To live without self-respect is to lie awake some night, beyond the reach of warm milk, phenobarbital, and the sleeping hand on the coverlet, counting up the sins of comm

40、ission and omission, the trusts betrayed, the promises subtly broken, the gifts irrevocably wasted through sloth or cowardice or carelessness. However long we postpone it, we eventually lie down in that notoriously uncomfortable bed, the one we make ourselves. Whether or not we sleep in it depends,

41、of course, on whether or not we respect ourselves. QUESTION Section 3: Detailed Reading 5 To protest that some fairly improbable people, some people who could not possibly respect themselves, seem to sleep easily enough is to miss the point entirely, as surely as those people miss it who think that

42、self-respect has necessarily to do with not having safety pins in ones underwear. There is a common superstition that “self-respect” is a kind of charm against snakes, something that keeps those who have it locked in some unblighted Eden, out of strange beds, ambivalent conversations, and trouble in

43、 general. It does not at all. Section 3: Detailed Reading Although the careless, suicidal Julian English in Appointment in Samarra and the careless, uncurably dishonest Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby seem equally improbable candidates for self- respect, Jordan Baker had it, Julian English did not.

44、 With that genius for accommodation more often seen in women than in men, Jordan took her own measure, made her own peace, avoided threats to that peace: “I hate careless people,” she told Nick Carraway. “ It takes two to make an accident.” Section 3: Detailed Reading 6 Like Jordan Baker, people wit

45、h self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things. If they choose to commit adultery, they do not then go running, in an access of bad conscience, to receive absolution from the wronged parties; nor do they complain unduly of the unfairness, the undeserved embarrassmen

46、t, of being named correspondent. In brief, people with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called character, a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to other, more instantly negotiable virtues. Section 3: Deta

47、iled Reading The measure of its slipping prestige is that one tends to think of it only in connection with homely children and United States senators who have been defeated, preferably in the primary, for reelection. Nonetheless, characterthe willingness to accept responsibility for ones own lifeis

48、the source from which self-respect springs. Section 3: Detailed Reading 7 Self-respect is something that our grandparents, whether they had it or not, knew all about. They had instilled in them, young, a certain discipline, the sense that one lives by doing things one does not particularly want to d

49、o, by putting fears and doubts to one side, by weighing immediate comforts against the possibility of larger, even intangible comforts. It seemed to the nineteenth century admirable, but not remarkable, that Chinese Gordon put on a clean white suit and held Khartoum against the Mahdi; it did not see

50、m unjust that the way to free land in California involved death and difficulty and dirt. Section 3: Detailed Reading In a diary kept during the winter of 1846, an emigrating twelve-year-old named Narcissa Cornwall noted coolly: “Father was busy reading and did not notice that the house was being fil

51、led by strange Indians until Mother spoke about it.” Even lacking any clue as to what Mother said, one can scarcely fail to be impressed by the entire incident: the Indians filing in, the mother choosing the words that would not alarm, the child duly recording the event and noting further that those

52、 particular Indians were not, “fortunately for us,” hostile. Indians were simply part of the donne. Section 3: Detailed Reading 8 In one guise or another, Indians always are. Again, it is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has its price. People who respect themselves are willing to

53、 accept the risk that the Indians will be hostile, that the venture will go bankrupt, that the liaison may not turn out to be one in which every day is a holiday because youre married to me. They are willing to invest something of themselves; they may not play at all, but when they do play, they kno

54、w the odds. 9 That kind of self-respect is a discipline, a habit of mind that can never be faked but can be developed, trained, coaxed forth. Section 3: Detailed Reading It was once suggested to me that, as an antidote to crying, I put my head in a paper bag. As it happens, there is a sound physiolo

55、gical reason, something to do with oxygen, for doing exactly that, but the psychological effect alone is incalculable: it is difficult in the extreme to continue fancying oneself Cathy in Wuthering Heights with ones head in a Food Fair bag. There is a similar case for all the small disciplines, unim

56、portant in themselves; imagine maintaining any kind of swoon, commiserative or carnal, in a cold shower. QUESTION Section 3: Detailed Reading 10 But those small disciplines are valuable only insofar as they represent larger ones. To say that Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton is not to s

57、ay that Napoleon might have been saved by a crash program in cricket; to give formal dinners in the rain forest would be pointless did not the candlelight flickering on the liana call forth deeper, stronger disciplines, values instilled long before. It is a kind of ritual, helping us to remember who

58、 and what we are. In order to remember it, one must have known it. QUESTIONQUESTIONQUESTIONQUESTION Section 3: Detailed Reading 11 To have that sense of ones intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love, and to remain indiffer

59、ent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference. If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On

60、the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out since our self-image is untenabletheir false notions of us. Section 3: Detailed Reading We flatter ourselves by thinking this compulsion to please others an attractive trait: a gist for imaginative empathy, e