恋爱中的女人汇总课件.ppt

1、Reading ReportWomen in LoveTopic:The theme of the novel behind the tragic love affair 201203010409 class4 蒋小慧contentso Authoro Major workso Background o Theme o Plot Summaryo Love Line Gudrun and GeraldAbout the authoro David Herbert Lawrence,（1885-1930）who was the most controversial and distinctive

2、 writer in 20th because of too much pornographic description in his work,was honored as one of the most greatest writer in the history of English literature.Actually,since affected by the psychologist,Freuds opinion on our mental activities deeply,he adopted so many psychological descriptions as a t

3、echnique to express the theme of the novel and the disposition or thoughts of main characters in most of his literal works.Major workso The White Peacock白孔雀first novelo Sons and Lovers 儿子与情人Oedipus complexo The Rainbow 虹o Women in Love 恋爱中的女人o Lady Chatterleys lover 查泰来夫人的情人Background oWomen in love

4、 was written in 1916,during the first world war：the war exposed the ugliness component of human nature.The destructive force of the technology,the fragility and helplessness of reason lead people to think seriously.The so-called civilization progress become the important source of human alienation a

5、nd the advanced technology improve the efficiency of mutual slaughter among human beings.Whats worse,the abuse of advanced technology worsen the relationship between human and nature and damage our life environment.Therefore,Lawrence worried about people and our life environment deeply and he shows

6、his great aversion to the drawbacks of the development of technology and the horrible war in his works.Theme oThe development of technology satisfies peoples material desire.However,people view the development of technology as their life purpose to realize their material desire,which is bound to lea

7、d to the ignorance of human value.In this case,peoples initiative and creativity cant be developed and our society will lost its necessary vitality.In women in Love,Lawrence exposed the drawbacks that the rapid development of western modern industrial mode of production finally results in the distor

8、tion of human nature and the droop of human feelings.In his opinion,if human beings want to grow healthily,they must break down all the external factors which distort human nature,like the drawbacks of the development of industrial,and build a kind of new social order to bring the human nature back.

9、Plot summaryoWomen in love is Lawrences favorite novel.It depicts Ursula and her sister Gudruns experience of love.Ursula falls in love with Birkin,the school inspector,while Gudrun has a crush on Gerald,the young mine owner.Life experience leads the two pairs of lovers to an opposite result.Out of

10、different outlook,Gudrun and Gerald bring their love to an end with the death of Gerald in Alps,whereas Ursula and Birkin get married.Through the different consequence of the two pairs of lovers,Lawrence means to explore the possibility of establishing a complete relationship in such developed indus

11、trial society when the obstacles between man and man and man and woman.Love Line Gudrun and Geraldo Gudruno Gudrun is born in poverty,but she dares to set foot in upper-class society and win the higher class peoples acceptance and respect by her own wisdom and talents of art.She cares very little fo

12、r fame and gain and disdains vanity.She chooses a kind of artists vagabondage instead of marring to a husband who is wealthy and powerful to go into the upper class society.She serves as a representative of a modern lady who is free,independent,experienced and talented.Love Line Gudrun and Geraldo G

13、eraldo In the novel,Gerald is a representative of social Darwinism.He is the incarnation of machine civilization and symbolizes the coldness and cruelty of subhuman way of governess of modern industries.In addition,his attitude towards love affairs is as same as towards his workeveryone else must su

14、bject to his will.Love Line Gudrun and Geraldo Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen are two sisters living in the Midlands of England in the 1910s.Ursula is a teacher,Gudrun an artist.They meet two men who live nearby,school inspector Rupert Birkin and coal-mine heir Gerald Crich.The four become friends.Ursul

15、a and Birkin become involved,and Gudrun eventually begins a love affair with Gerald.Now,I will share the love affair between Gudrun and Gerald in details with you.Love Line Gudrun and Geraldo At a party at Geralds estate,Geralds sister Diana drowns by accident.Afterwards,Gudrun becomes the teacher a

16、nd mentor of his youngest sister.Soon Geralds coal-mine-owning father dies as well,after a long illness.After the funeral,Gerald feel very lonely and goes to Gudruns house and spends the night with her,while her parents are asleep in another room.Then,they begin their love affair and want to get alo

17、ng with each other further.Therefore,during a holiday,they date to travel in the Alps.Love Line Gudrun and Geraldo Gerald and Gudruns relationship,however,becomes stormy.The four holiday in the Alps.Gudrun begins an intense friendship with Loerke,a physically puny but emotionally commanding artist f

18、rom Dresden.Gerald,enraged by Loerke and most of all by Gudruns verbal abuse and rejection of his manhood,and driven by the internal violence of his own self,tries to strangle Gudrun.Before he has killed her,however,he realizes that this is not what he wants,and he leaves Gudrun and Loerke and climb

19、s the mountain,eventually slipping into a snowy valley where he falls asleep and freezes to death.Analysis of the love affairo As we know,Gudrun and Geralds love story ended as a tragedy and it is doomed to be this ending.Machine civilization and its cold system must lead to humans coldness and void

20、 in spirits and the sham and exhaustion in affection.Gerald was driven by lust and begin to be attracted by Gudrun,however,when the lust is gone,his love for Gudrun is gone too.In addition,as the representative of a modern lady,Gudrun,who is independent,experienced,ambitious,disdains vanity and look

21、s forward to freedom is unlikely to endure Geralds coldness and imperiousness.Thus,they broke up with each other.Analysis of the love affairo Actually,Gerald died at last and his tragedy is a kind of epitome of the tragedy of that age.Furthermore,his death show Lawrences full denying on modern indus

22、trial civilization and social Darwinism.He thinks that human beings want to grow healthily,they must break down all the external factors which distort human nature,like the drawbacks of the development of industry,and build a kind of new social order to bring the human nature back,which is the theme

23、 of this novel.Thats all.Thank you for your listening!Women in LoveTheme:The analysis of the relation between personality and destiny from Women in Love201203010405 Class4 何佩林Contentsv The introduction of Women in Love.v The personality of the characters:Ursula and Birkinv The relationship between B

24、irkin and Geraldv The love story of Ursula and Birkin.v The writing characteristics of Women in Love.v The conclusion of Women in Love.The introduction of Women in LoveoThe story mainly tells a story which relates two couples of lovers,Lawrence use the creating way of modernist in his work.It reveal

25、s the criticisms of modern individual civilization under the control of capitalism distorts the human nature.The repression finally cause the bad effects on human nature and Lawrence makes a full analysis of the human nature around the surrounding.The all words and sentences deeply show the consciou

26、sness of human nature.Especially the writer deeply analyse the appearance of consciousness of freedom.That shows wisdom of a talent writer and his deeply explanation of human nature.At the same time,he describes the vivid personality of characters.It seems to that the characters have bad destiny in

27、this work.It is the certainly colorful part of work.The introduction of Women in LoveoWomen in Love is a representative of best work of Lawrences creative work.He analyses the psychological problems about love with full enthusiasm and depth.After reading the work,I have my personal opinions about th

28、e story.The work has a simple structure.It shows the love story about two couple of young persons.the characters have different personality naturally cause the different destiny.Generally speaking,the tragedy seems to can represent their fate.The lovers love each other.But their personality cause th

29、at they cant get happiness.In another perspective,they can not enjoy the real freedom in that society.So they need to release the dignity through a special way.Women in Love is the representative of that work.The personality of the characters:Ursula oUrsula is a mistress who is emotional and conside

30、rate.oWe can know about her mental activities in chapter 1 to draw this conclusion.It was a scene about Ursula watching the development of a wedding nearby her home.Generally speaking,the wedding has no relationship with her;however,when something wrong happens on the wedding,she thinks she should t

31、ake the responsibility,which shows she is more emotional.The following scenes show how she feels about the wedding.oe.g.The bridegroom and the grooms man had not yet come.There was a growing consternation outside.Ursula felt almost responsible.She could not bear it that the bride should arrive,and n

32、o groom.The wedding must not be a fiasco,it must not.The personality of the characters:Ursula oAnd no bridegroom had arrived!It was intolerable for her.Ursula,her heart strained with anxiety,was watching the hill beyond;the white,descending road,that should give sight of him.There was a carriage.It

33、was running.It had just come into sight.Yes,it was he.Ursula turned towards the bride and the people,and,from her place of vantage,gave an inarticulate cry.She wanted to warn them that he was coming.But her cry was inarticulate and inaudible,and she flushed deeply,between her desire and her wincing

34、confusion.From this scene of describing Ursulas mental activities,it is obvious that she is an emotional and considerate person for her feeling can be influenced easily and she cares about the wedding and her feeling changes too as the wedding changes although whether the wedding go on well or not a

35、ctually is none of her business.The personality of the characters:UrsulaoSecondly,she is a woman who is uncertain about love but looking forward to true love.We also can find the evidence in chapter 13 of this novel.oe.g.The days went by,and she received no sign.Was he going to ignore her,was he goi

36、ng to take no further notice of her secret?A dreary weight of anxiety and acrid bitterness settled on her.And yet Ursula knew she was only deceiving herself,and that he would proceed.She said no word to anybody.oThis fragment is about Ursulas mental thoughts which can fully show her uncertainty of l

37、ove though she is sure that she herself begins to fall in love with Birkin and he will contact her someday.At the same time,it also reflects the ambivalence when women are being in love.Lastly,Ursula is a woman who knows her mind well and has unique understanding of death.The personality of the char

38、acters:Ursulaoe.g.How beautiful,how grand and perfect death was,how good to look forward to.There one would wash off all the lies and ignominy and dirt that had been put upon one here,a perfect bath of cleanness and glad refreshment,and go unknown,unquestioned,unabased.After all,one was ich,if only

39、in the promise of perfect death.It was a gladness above all,that this remained to look forward to,the pure inhuman otherness of death.This paragraph shows Ursulas special opinions on death,she isnt afraid of death but to admire death highly.In her opinion,death is a way to wash off all the lies and

40、ignominy and dirt,which is good for human.Death is also a theme of this story,and Ursula interprets it for us in a positive way.The personality of the characters:Birkino Birkin despise death of human.It makes us confused.Maybe it is all because of his different thinking way and artist status.In his

41、world,there are many difference between art and life,he doesnt afraid of the death of human.His personality can always confused us.I think that the write endure pains when he write the work.We can see the death contains many possibilities.We all hope that everyone can refrain from that death of huma

42、n and get regeneration.maybe it can respondent with the start of generation.The personality of the characters:Birkino He contains the thoughts of artist and He is indifferent to the death and life.It divides that he cant give the true love to others.He even to refuse to gives love to others.He says

43、in novel:No,i dont love you,I need the love is that over love.We could have though that Birkin can love Ursula forever.His desire and human nature conquer the reason when he meet his desire.He loves Gerald and miss him.While Gerald and Ursula constraint and destruct each other.The kind of love makes

44、 us surprised.But we can think it over.We can conclude that it is a tragedy.The relationship between Birkin and Geraldo What more,the fate of Gerald is worse than others.He conquer the realistic world even he wants to conquer the individualism Gudrun.the conquer contains many desires.We can not thin

45、k that is love.So Gerald is colorful and makes us confused.However,he treats Birkin softly and naturally.But it only can be considered a kind of pure friendship.So the love makes him despaired.Compared with Birkin the representative of the ill beauty.He lives his life with absolute spirit we can see

46、 that the inner mind of Birkin fulls with loneliness.The relationship between Birkin and GeraldoHe thinks that he cant get the good judgment from other.His life always makes him depressed.nothing can penetrate into his mind.So he find Gudrun loves Gerald deeply.Another is that Gerald loves Birkin de

47、eply.It is truth that Birkin also love Gerald.The emotion makes us surprised and confused.He shows his love to Gerald sincerely.It generates from the inner mind of his.Birkin pursues the perfect body of male.meanwhile,Birkin pursues special love which regardless of death.Birkin is the representative

48、 of body beauty.The writing characteristics of Women in LoveoThe writer uses kinds of traditional writing characteristics to form the story in Women in Love.the form of of the story is complex.on the one hand,the form describes the profile of theme.on the other hand,the story contains distinct pscho

49、logical analysis and symbolism.we can find the artistic charm from the two points.Women in love is the theme of the novel.the form and the development of characters are connected with the theme which shows Larences opinions on mordern civilization and relations between scenes reveal the destiny of c

50、haracters.Women in Love is the typical example of the style which is used in novel well.The writing characteristics of Women in LoveoThe writer also use symbolism.The symlism and imagines are related to theme.Lawrence is good at use the natural things to describe characters.meanwhile,he transfors sp