JohnGalsworthy约翰高尔斯华绥.ppt

John Galsworthy约翰高尔斯华绥（1867-1933）1.His life and career2.His works3.The major work4.The characters of his writing5.The well-known sayingsCOLUMN1.Life and Career1.1 He was born in an upper-middle-class family.1.2 He was educated at Harrow and at Oxford.1.3 He traveled widely as a young man.1.4 His married the divorced wife of his cousin and had a happy married life.1.5 Galsworthy was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932.Series of The Forsyte Saga:2.His WorksThe Man of Property(1906)In Chancery(1920)To Let(1921)The White Monkey(1924)The Silver Spoon(1926)Swan Song(1928)Maid in Waiting(1932)Flowering Wilderness(1933)Over the River(1933)From the Four Winds(1897)A Man of Devon(1901)The Island Pharisees(1904)The Freelands(1911)The Dark Flower(1913)The Man of Property(the first novel of the Forsyte Saga)Major characters:Soames,Irene and BosinneyForsytism:The specifically English type of bourgeois morality and social attitudes.Theme:Property and its effect on the personal relationships3.The Major Work4.1 He is a conventional writer,having inherited the fine traditions of the great Victorian novelists of the critical realism with satire and humor in his writing.4.2 He focused on plot development and character portrayal.4.3 He writed in a clear and unpretentious style with a clear and straightward language.4.4 He was moved throughout his life by an acute sense of social justice.4.The Characters of His Writting5.The Well-known Sayings5.1 When a Forsyte was engaged,married,or born,the Forsytes were present;when a Forsyte died-but no Forsyte has as yet died;they did not die;death being contrary to their principles,they took precautions against it,the instinctive precautions of highly vitalized persons who resent encroachments on their property.(from The Forsyte Saga)5.2 A man is the sum of his actions,of what he has done,of what he can do,Nothing else.5.3 Ones eyes are what one is,ones mouth is what one becomes.5.4 Beginnings are always messy.2010级英语1班 姚岚