Thackeray薩克雷英文簡介與作品介紹實用教案

1、Thackeray was a representative of critical realism in 19th-century England who has the same reputation with Charles Dickens.Thackeray was born at Calcutta in 1811. His father, Richmond Thackeray, had been an Indian civil servant, as had Williams grandfather. At the age of six, Thackeray was sent to

2、be educated in England. On his way to England from India, the small Thackeray saw Napoleon on St. Helena. In his early education, an independent spirit was infused to small Thackeray. So he went his own way, attending various schools, and leaving Thinity College, Cambridge without taking a degree. 第

3、1頁/共8頁第一頁，共9頁。He married Isabella, an Irish girl, in Paris, 1836, who enchanted him with her singing, and who was the model for Amelia in Vanity Fair. Three daughters were born, one dying in infancy. After the birth of the third child, Mrs. Thackerays mind was affected and she had to be placed with

4、a family who took care of her. The little girls were sent to Thackerays mother in Paris. Although Mrs. Thackeray outlived her husband by thirty years, she did not recover. As a young man with a ruined fortune and a tragic marriage, Thackeray was forced to earn his life with his pen. Politically Thac

5、keray was a radical, advocating social reform and democracy. In his opinion, the existing society was corrupted as well as corrupting. He took it as his duty to expose the vices of his age, especially those in the upper-middle class. And He also regarded snobbery and the money-grabbing as the chief

6、vice in his society. He criticizes the social moral that makes up the society. His criticism embraces people of all social strata; his social-climbers and snobs and money-grabbers can be found in any class. He always speaks in an ironical, sarcastic and cynical tone of an on-looker. He used his pen

7、to disclose the darkness of society, and the Vanity Fair is a vivid and satire embodiment of that time and society. 第2頁/共8頁第二頁，共9頁。 Vanity Fair （名利場，（名利場，1848） The History of Henry Esmond （亨利（亨利(hngl)伊斯蒙德，伊斯蒙德，1852）第3頁/共8頁第三頁，共9頁。Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero Vanity Fair is Mr. Thackerays most

8、important work. The novel describes two women: Amelia Sedley who does not esteem the values of Vanity Fair and Rebecca Sharp who cares for nothing else. 第4頁/共8頁第四頁，共9頁。The History of Henry EsmondOut of modesty, one supposes, the impossibly virtuous Henry Esmond narrates his adventures in the third p

9、erson. Raised to believe himself a noblemans love-child, he eventually discovers he is a legitimate heir. This knowledge he suppresses in favor of his near relations and benefactors, especially the Jacobite Lady Castlewood and her daughter, both of whom he loves devotedly, and one of whom he eventua

10、lly marries. In the meantime, neither he nor his kin can escape the political, martial, and religious turmoil of Queen Annes England. 第5頁/共8頁第五頁，共9頁。Other Masterpieces:Full-length novels:1.The History of Pendennis（彭登尼斯，1850) ）2.The Newcomes（紐克姆一家，1855）3.The Virginians（弗吉尼亞人，1859）Medium-length novels:The luck of Barry Lyndon（巴里(b l)林頓的遭遇 ，1844）Short story collections:The book of Snobs （庸人之書or 勢利眼集，1848）第6頁/共8頁第六頁，共9頁。第7頁/共8頁第七頁，共9頁。感謝您的觀看(gunkn)！第8頁/共8頁第八頁，共9頁。NoImag