英美文學(xué)欣賞資料-梅爾維爾

1、 received recognition until the 1920s“he has a very high and noble nature”three important things in his life: melvilles major works 1) typee 泰皮 2) omoo 歐穆 3) mardi 瑪?shù)?4) redburn 雷得本 5) white jacket 白外衣from his adventures among the people of the south pacific islandsan account of his voyage to englan

2、dhis life on a united states man-of-warmelvilles major worksmelvilles major worksmoby-dick 白鯨白鯨，莫比莫比狄克狄克 an encyclopedia of everythinghistory, philosophy, religion, the whaling industry a shakespearean tragedy of man fighting against fatesmoby-dick 1. which body part has ahab lost to moby dick? (a)

3、his leg (b) his arm (c) his eye (d) his fingers amoby-dick 2. what is the name of ahabs ship? (a) the town-ho (b) the rachel (c) the samuel enderby (d) the pequod dmoby-dick 3. after what is ahabs ship named? (a) its owner (b) a vanished tribe of native americans (c) a species of whale (d) a biblica

4、l character bmoby-dick 4. for what were whales primarily hunted? (a) oil (b) skin (c) meat (d) fins bmoby-dick 5. what does ahab nail to the ships mast to motivate his crew in his quest for moby dick? (a) a gold coin (b) a severed head (c) a drawing of moby dick (d) a pirate flag amoby-dick 6. what

5、keeps ishmael afloat after the pequod sinks? (a) a coffin (b) a barrel of oil (c) a lifeboat (d) a mattress amoby-dick 7. what frightens ishmael the most about moby dick? (a) the whales size (b) the whales teeth (c) the whiteness of the whale (d) the sounds that the whale makes bmoby-dick 8. with wh

6、at is the pequod adorned? (a) sperm whale teeth (b) american flags (c) red paint (d) whale fins amoby-dick 9. from what is ahabs false leg made? (a) a whales jawbone (b) wood (c) an elephants tusk (d) leather amoby-dick 10. how does the pequod sink? (a) she is rammed by moby dick. (b) she is overloa

7、ded with oil. (c) she gets lost in a storm. (d) she is rammed by another ship. asymbols in moby dick the pequod moby dick ahab queequegs coffinthe pequoda symbol of doomnamed after a native american tribe in massachusettsdid not long survive the arrival of white men (extincted)is painted gloomy blac

8、k and covered in whale teeth and bonesthe mementos of violent deathlike a primitive coffinmoby dickis hidden all the timemirrors its enviormentunknown and unknowable truthsonly the surface of the ocean is available for human observation and interpretationthe depths conceal unknown truthsa metaphor f

9、or the human relationship with the christain god: god is unkown and cannot be pinned downinscrutable, mysteriousmoby dickvarious symbolic meaningsto the pequods crewa concept onto which they can diplay their anxiety about dangerous and frightening jobsto ahaba manifestation of all that is wrong with

10、 the worldit is his destiny to get rid of this symbolic evilqueequegs coffin queequegs coffin alternately symbolizes life and death. queequeg has it built when he is seriously ill, but when he recovers, it becomes a chest to hold his belongings and an emblem of his will to live. he perpetuates the k

11、nowledge tattooed on his body by carving it onto the coffins lid. the coffin further comes to symbolize life when it replaces the pequods life buoy. when the pequod sinks, the coffin becomes ishmaels buoy(浮標(biāo)浮標(biāo)), saving not only his life but the life of the narrative that he will pass on.themes of mo

12、by dick1)melvilles bleak view (negative attitude): the sense of futility and meaninglessness of the world. his attitude to life is “everlasting nay”nman in this universe lives a meaningless and futile life, meaningless because futile. man cannot overcome nature. once he attempts to seek power over i

13、t he is doomed. themes of moby dickthe adventure of killing moby dick is meaningless. ahab tries to control it, which leads to his doom. the embodiment of naturemodern life the loss of faith, the sense of futilitywell expressed in moby dickthemes of moby dick2) alienation (far away from each other)

14、exists between man and man, man and society, and man and nature. ahab cuts himself off from his family, stays away from his crew, hates moby dick and becomes a devil rushing to his doom. he was within “the masoned, walled town of a captians exclusiveness”,which leads him to his doom.themes of moby d

15、ick3) loneliness and suicidal individualism (individualism causing disaster and death)the basic pattern of nineteenth-century american life moby dick is a negative reflection upon transcendentalism ahab: too much of a self-reliant individual to be a good human beinga victim of extreme individualismt

16、he price of self-reliance is death.themes of moby dick4）rejection and questvoyaging for ishmael has become a journey in quest of knowledge and values.starts out feeling badhopes to find an ideal lifecomes to see the folly of ahab seeking to conquer naturefeels the significance of love and companions

17、hiplearns to accept,an attitude which ensures his survivalthemes of moby dickthemes the sense of futility and meaninglessness alienationloneliness and suicidal individualism rejection and questwriting style(1)his works are symbolic and metaphorical.voyage- search and discovery, the search for the ul

18、timate truth of experience. the pequod -the ship of the american soul moby dick-a symbol ofits whiteness- paradoxical colorevilgoodnessbothdeath and corruptionpurity, innocence, and youthwriting style(2)he manages to achieve the effect of ambiguity through employing the technique of multiple view of his narratives. moby dick is portrayed for the reader from di