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Unit4WhyIWantAWife

－JudySyfersWhydoesamanwanttohaveaWIFE?

Because…W---Washing

IFE---Ironing---Food---

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Awife’sstatusThehusband,intheacceptedroleasheadofthehousehold,givesmoraldirectiontohiswifeandchildren--whositobedientlylistening.AhusbandinstructshisobedientfamilyChineseWomen’sYesterdaytoobeyherfatherbeforemarriage

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toobeyherhusbandaftermarriage

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diligentneedlework婦功“ThreeObeys”三從“FourVirtues”四德BackgroundInformationJudySyfers,bornin1937inSanFrancisco,isafeminist(女權(quán)運(yùn)動(dòng)者),politicalandenvironmentalactivist,andafreelancewriter(自由作家).InAugust1970,JudySyfersstoodbeforeacrowdgatheredinSanFranciscoandreadanessayshewroteentitled“whyIwantawife”.Thecrowdwasgatheredtocele-bratethe50thanniversaryofthe19thamendment(修正案),givingwomentherighttovote.Judywasheckled(詰問)bymenintheaudience,buttheessayhadanimmediateimpactinstrengtheningfeministmovement.ItwaspublishedintheMS.magazinein1971.Todayitiswidelycirculatedallovertheworldasaclassicexampleoffeministhumorandsatirical

(挖苦旳)prose.JudySyfersandWhyIwantawifeTextComprehensionIstheauthoramanorawoman?Whatcausedhertohavetheideaof“havingawife”?Whatarethedutiesandresponsibilitiesofawife,accordingtotheessay?Howaboutawife’sstatusinthefamily?Howmanyquestionsdoestheauthorask?Andthefunctions?TextanalysisThewriterusesasimple,straightforwardstyle.Bymentioningherencounterwithamalefriendofhers“freshfromarecentdivorce,”sheintroduceshermajorproposition—wife’sdutiesandresponsibilitiesforherhusbandwithtrivialthingsfromdailylifetosupportargument.Theessayendswithacrisp,one-sentencerhetoricalquestion.Awifeshouldersvariousresponsibilitiesbutisunfairlytreated.Thethesisstatement:StructureAnalysisParagraph(s)Mainideapara.1-2introducesheridentityandstartsherbittersatireonthosemendesiringforawifewhofitsinwiththeirnotionsbypretendingthatshewouldliketohaveawifewithallpossiblevirtues.para.3-7awife’sdutiesandresponsibilitiesaccordingtothemostmen’sidealnotionsforawife.para.8-9awife’sstatusinafamily.Restatetopic:whydoIwantawife?para.10Rhetoricalfeatures

inpoetry,literatureandrhetoric,thereareseveralkindsofrepetitionwherewordsorcertainphrasesarerepeatedforastrongeremphasisbytheauthor.RepetitionWhyIwantaWife1Ibelongtothatclassificationofpeopleknownaswives.IamAWife.And,notaltogetherincidentally,Iamamother.Paraphrase:

Ibelongtothegroupofpeopleclassifiedaswives.Myidentityisawife.1.Ibelongtothatclassificationofpeopleknownaswives.IamAWife.

LanguagePoints2.Incidentallyadv.(1).bytheway:addingmoreinformation

Imustgonow,incidentally,canyoulookaftermydog?(2).happeninginawaythatwasnotplanned,butasaresultofsth.elseQuiteincidentally,Igotsomeinformationattheparty.2Nottoolongagoamalefriendofmineappearedonthescenefreshfromarecentdivorce.Hehadonechild,whois,ofcourse,withhis

ex-wife.Heislookingforanotherwife.AsIthoughtabouthimwhileIwasironingoneevening,itsuddenlyoccurredtomethatItoo,wouldliketohaveawife.WhydoIwantawife?Onthescenecome/beonthescene:toarrive/tobethere.e.g.Icalledthepoliceandtheywereonthescenewithinminutes.2.Freshfromarecentdivorce:justdivorcewithhiswifenotlongago.freshfrom:tohavejustcomefromaparticularplace;tohavejusthadaparticularexperience.

e.g.Theyoungpeoplefreshfromschoolmainlyconstitutethecompany.3.

ex-:former(andstillliving)Ex-wife,ex-boyfriend,ex-president,ex-minister.4.Itoccurredtosb.that/somethingoccurtosomebody:somethingsuddenlyappearinone’smind.e.g.Itoccurredtomethatweshouldsticktoourprinciple.e.g.Thiskindofthoughtneveroccurredtome.HomeworkExercisesP442.writing:

writeacompositionofabout350wordsonthefollowingtopic:Iwantahusband.

WhydoesawomanwanttohaveaHUSBAND?

Because…

H---Housing

U---Understanding

S---Sharing

B---Buying

A---and

N---Never

D---DemandingThanksforyourwatching!“WhyI

WantAWife?”

Buddhasaid:”Human’slifetimeistoonlyfind‘roots’.”Whatis‘root’”?Ithink:theformofrootishome.WhenIwasyoung,homeiswheremymotherstay;aftergrowup,someday,butsuddenlyfeelmyselfisonlyatramp---onethatcan’townhisbelovedperson,nothavehome,onlyhavehometown.So,Iwanttohaveawife,becauseIwanttohaveahome,onewithwarm.

佛說：“人旳一生只為尋‘根’?！昂沃^‘根’？我覺得：根是形式就是家。小時(shí)候，家是母親在旳地方；長(zhǎng)大后旳某天，卻忽然覺得自己只是一種流浪者－一種不能有愛旳人陪同旳人，談不上有家，唯有家鄉(xiāng)而已！所以，我想有個(gè)妻子，因?yàn)槲蚁胗袀€(gè)家，溫暖旳家?！癢hyI

WantAWife?”

Love,isthesourceofallthepower.Thesuccess=health+familyharmony+successinbusiness.Historyshowsthatasuccessfulmancannotleavethewoman.Onefamouspersonsaid:”theperfectfamilyisthefoundationofsuccess;marryingagoodwifeisbenefittoyourwealth.”Allmylife,Iwanttohaveawife.“WhyI

WantAWife?”

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