新世纪高等院校英语专业本科生系列教材高级英语第二册ppt课件.ppt

Unit 3 The Fiddler,新世纪高等院校英语专业本科生系列教材（修订版）高级英语2电子教案,Detailed Reading,Contents,Warm Up,Global Reading,Consolidation Activities,Text Appreciation,Further Enhancement,Section 1: Warm Up,Answer the following questions before you read the text.What, according to your understanding, is happiness?Read the happiness quotations in the pictures and share your interpretations with your partner.Do you agree with the people above? Why or why not?,Lead-in,Background Information,Section 1: Warm Up,Lead-in,Background Information,Section 1: Warm Up,Lead-in,Background Information,Section 1: Warm Up,Lead-in,Background Information,Section 1: Warm Up,Lead-in,Background Information,Section 1: Warm Up,About the Author Herman Melville: the celebrated author of several big 19th-century novels about the sea. Moby-Dick (1851), the story of the fanatical Captain Ahab and his hunt for the great white whale of the title, is now considered one of the classics of American literature.,1819-1891,Background Information,Lead-in,Section 1: Warm Up,Melvilles other novels include Typee (1846), Omoo (1847), and Billy Budd (published posthumously in 1924). Melville published little after 1860 and it wasnt until the 1900s that he gained his reputation as one of early Americas great authors. “The Fiddler” was first published in Harpers New Monthly Magazine in September 1854.,Background Information,Lead-in,Section 2: Global Reading,Decide which of the following best states the authors purpose.,Structural Analysis,Main Idea,A. To suggest a way to get out of depression. B. To describe the main characters disillusionment.C. To illustrate the qualities of an ideal mature man. D. To reveal the relationship between fame and happiness.,Section 2: Global Reading,Please divide the text into different parts according to the plot development of the story and summarize the main idea of each part.,Structural Analysis,Main Idea,Part I,(Paragraphs 1-2) The Beginning: Disillusionment,Paragraphs 1-2 reveal the narrators disillusionment with his dream of winning immortal fame through literature when his poem meets negative response.,Part II,(Paragraphs 3-11) First Encounter and Impression,Paragraphs 3-11 describe the narrators first encounter with Hautboy, who leaves him a good impression and arouses his curiosity.,Structural Analysis,Main Idea,Part III,(Paragraphs 12-15) Transition in Mood,This part shows an important transitional stage of Helmstones change: He starts to put himself in an objective position and criticize himself, which is a sign of reconstructing his dilapidated world and shifting his mind from interior to exterior.,Section 2: Global Reading,Part IV,(Paragraphs 16-40) Superficial Presumption,This part is the initial stage of the process of the revealing of Hautboys identity which not only vividly mirrors Helmstones image of a self-deceptive intellectual snob, but also reveals the reason why he fails in his pursuit of happinessthe uncompromising conflict between his instinctive desire for happiness and his false understanding of happiness as a sign of shallowness.,Structural Analysis,Main Idea,Part VI,(Paragraph 60) The Ending: Action,Helmstones taking fiddle lessons of Hautboy successfully conveys the authors message of pursuing happiness by getting rid of excessive self-admiration and cultivating sincere interest in the exterior world.,Part V,(Paragraphs 41-59) Fiddling Performance: Revelation and Epiphany,Hautboys breathtaking performance of fiddling and the ultimate exposure of his identity become the last straw that dismantles Helmstones mansion of prejudice and false knowledge.,Section 2: Global Reading,Section 3: Detailed Reading,1 So my poem is damned, and immortal fame is not for me! I am nobody forever and ever. Intolerable fate!2 Snatching my hat, I dashed down the criticism, and rushed out into Broadway, where enthusiastic throngs were crowding to a circus in a side-street nearby, very recently started, and famous for a capital clown.3 Presently my old friend Standard rather boisterously accosted me.4 “Well met, Helmstone, my boy! Ah! Whats the matter?,The Fiddler,QUESTION,Section 3: Detailed Reading,Havent been committing murder? Aint flying justice? You look wild!” 5 “You have seen it, then?” said I, of course referring to the criticism.6 “Oh yes; I was there at the morning performance. Great clown, I assure you. But here comes Hautboy. HautboyHelmstone.”7 Without having time or inclination to resent so mortifying a mistake, I was instantly soothed as I gazed on the face of the new acquaintance so unceremoniously introduced.,Section 3: Detailed Reading,His person was short and full, with a juvenile, animated cast to it. His complexion rurally ruddy; his eye sincere, cheery, and gray. His hair alone betrayed that he was not an overgrown boy. From his hair I set him down as forty or more. 8 “Come, Standard,” he gleefully cried to my friend, “are you not going to the circus? The clown is inimitable, they say. Come; Mr. Helmstone, toocome both; and circus over, well take a nice stew and punch at Taylors.” 9 The sterling content, good humor, and extraordinary,QUESTION,Section 3: Detailed Reading,ruddy, sincere expression of this most singular new acquaintance acted upon me like magic. 1It seemed mere loyalty to human nature to accept an invitation from so unmistakably kind and honest a heart.10 During the circus performance I kept my eye more on Hautboy than on the celebrated clown. 2 Hautboy was the sight for me. Such genuine enjoyment as his struck me to the soul with a sense of the reality of the thing called happiness. 3 The jokes of the clown he seemed to roll under his tongue as ripe magnum bonums. Now the foot,QUESTION,Section 3: Detailed Reading,now the hand, was employed to attest his grateful applause. If any hit more than ordinary, he turned upon Standard and me to see if his rare pleasure was shared. In a man of forty I saw a boy of twelve; and this too without the slightest abatement of my respect. Because all was so honest and natural, every expression and attitude so graceful with genuine good-nature, that the marvelous juvenility of Hautboy assumed a sort of divine and immortal air, like that of some forever youthful god of Greece.,Section 3: Detailed Reading,11 But much as I gazed upon Hautboy, and much as I admired his air, 4 yet that desperate mood in which I had first rushed from the house had not so entirely departed as not to molest me with momentary returns. But from these relapses I would rouse myself, and swiftly glance round the broad amphitheater of eagerly interested and all-applauding human faces. Hark! Claps, thumps, deafening huzzas; the vast assembly seemed frantic with acclamation; and what, mused I, has caused all this? Why, the clown only comically grinned with one of his extra grins.,Section 3: Detailed Reading,12 Then I repeated in my mind that sublime passage in my poem, in which Cleothemes the Argive vindicates the justice of the war. Aye, aye, thought I to myself, did I now leap into the ring there, and repeat that identical passage, nay, enact the whole tragic poem before them, would they applaud the poet as they applaud the clown? No! They would hoot me, and call me doting or mad. Then what does this prove? Your infatuation or their insensibility? Perhaps both; but indubitably the first. But why wail? Do you seek admiration from the admirers of a buffoon? Call to mind the saying of,Section 3: Detailed Reading,the Athenian, who, when the people vociferously applauded in the forum, asked his friend in a whisper what foolish thing had he said? 13 Again my eye swept the circus, and fell on the ruddy radiance of the countenance of Hautboy. 5 But its clear honest cheeriness disdained my disdain. My intolerant pride was rebuked. 6 And yet Hautboy dreamed not what magic reproof to a soul like mine sat on his laughing brow. At the very instant I felt 7 the dart of the censure, his eye twinkled, his hand waved, his voice was lifted in jubilant delight at another joke of the inexhaustible clown.,Section 3: Detailed Reading,14 Circus over, we went to Taylors. Among crowds of others, we sat down to our stews and punches at one of the small marble tables. Hautboy sat opposite to me. Though greatly subdued from its former hilarity, his face still shone with gladness. But added to this was a quality not so prominent before: a certain serene expression of leisurely, deep good sense. 8 Good sense and good humor in him joined hands. As the conversation proceeded between the brisk Standard and himfor I said little or nothingI was more and more struck with the excellent judgment he evinced.,Section 3: Detailed Reading,9 In most of his remarks upon a variety of topics Hautboy seemed intuitively to hit the exact line between enthusiasm and apathy. 10 It was plain that while Hautboy saw the world pretty much as it was, yet he did not theoretically espouse its bright side nor its dark side. 11 Rejecting all solutions, he but acknowledged facts. 12 What was sad in the world he did not superficially gainsay; what was gold in it he did not cynically slur; and all which was to him personally enjoyable, he gratefully took to his heart. It was plain, thenso it seemed at that moment, at least 13 that his extraordinary,Section 3: Detailed Reading,cheerfulness did not arise either from deficiency of feeling or thought.15 Suddenly remembering an engagement, he took up his hat, bowed pleasantly, and left us. “Well, Helmstone,” said Standard, inaudibly drumming on the slab, “what do you think of your new acquaintance?” 17 The two last words tingled with a peculiar and novel significance.18 “New acquaintance indeed,” echoed I. “Standard, I owe you a thousand thanks for introducing me to one of the most,Section 3: Detailed Reading,singular men I have ever seen. 14 It needed the optical sight of such a man to believe in the possibility of his existence.” 19 “You rather like him, then,” said Standard, with ironical dryness.20 “I hugely love and admire him, Standard. I wish I were Hautboy.” 21 “Ah? Thats a pity, now theres only one Hautboy in the world.” 22 This last remark set me to pondering again, and somehow it revived my dark mood.,Section 3: Detailed Reading,23 15“His wonderful cheerfulness, I suppose,” said I, sneering with spleen, “originates not less in a felicitous fortune than in a felicitous temper. His great good sense is apparent; 16but great good sense may exist without sublime endowments. Nay, I take it, in certain cases, that good sense is simply owing to the absence of those. Much more, cheerfulness. Unpossessed of genius, Hautboy is eternally blessed.” 24 “Ah? You would not think him an extraordinary genius, then?”25 “Genius? What! Such a short, fat fellow a genius! Genius, like Cassius, is lank.”,Section 3: Detailed Reading,“Ah? But could you not fancy that Hautboy might formerly have had genius, but luckily getting rid of it, at last fatted up?” “For a genius to get rid of his genius is as impossible as for a man in the 17 galloping consumption to get rid of that.” “Ah? You speak very decidedly.” 29 “Yes, Standard,” cried I, increasing in spleen, “your cheery Hautboy, after all, is no pattern, no lesson for you and me. With average abilities; opinions clear, because circumscribed; passions docile, because they are feeble;,QUESTION,Section 3: Detailed Reading,a temper hilarious, because he was born to ithow can your Hautboy be made a reasonable example to a heady fellow like you, or an ambitious dreamer like me? Nothing tempts him beyond common limit; in himself he has nothing to restrain. 18 By constitution he is exempted from all moral harm. Could ambition but prick him; had he but once heard applause, or endured contempt, a very different man would your Hautboy be. 19 Acquiescent and calm from the cradle to the grave, he obviously slides through the crowd.” 30 “Ah?”,Section 3: Detailed Reading,31 “Why do you say Ah to me so strangely whenever I speak?”32 “Did you ever hear of Master Betty?” 33 “The great English prodigy, who long ago ousted the Siddons and the Kembles from Drury Lane and made the whole town run mad with acclamation?” 34 “The same,” said Standard, once more inaudibly drumming on the slab.35 I looked at him perplexed. 20 He seemed to be holding the master-key of our theme in mysterious reserve; seemed to be throwing out his Master Betty, too, to puzzle me only more.,Section 3: Detailed Reading,“What under heaven can Master Betty, the great genius and prodigy, an English boy twelve years old, have to do with the poor commonplace plodder, Hautboy, an American of forty?” “Oh, nothing in the least. I dont imagine that they ever saw each other. Besides, Master Betty must be dead and buried long ere this.” 21 “Then why cross the ocean, and rifle the grace to drag his remains into this living discussion?” 39 “Absent-mindedness, I suppose. I humbly beg pardon.,Section 3: Detailed Reading,Proceed with your observations on Hautboy. You think he never had genius, quite too contented, and happy and fat for thatah? You think him no pattern for men in general? 22 Affording no lesson of value to neglected merit, genius ignored, or impotent presumption rebuked?all of which three amount to much the same thing. You admire his cheerfulness, while scorning his commonplace soul. 23 Poor Hautboy, how sad that your very cheerfulness should, by a by-blow, bring you despite!” 40 “I dont say I scorn him; you are unjust. I simply declare that he is no pattern for me.”,Section 3: Detailed Reading,41 A sudden noise at my side attracted my ear. Turning, I saw Hautboy again, who very blithely reseated himself on the chair he had left. “I was behind time with my engagement,” said Hautboy, “so thought I would run back and rejoin you. But come, you have sat long enough here. Let us go to my rooms. It is only a five minutes walk.” “If you will promise to fiddle for us, we will,” said Standard.44 Fiddle! thought I24 hes a jiggumbob fiddler, then?,Section 3: Detailed Reading,25No wonder genius declines to measure its pace to a fiddlers bow. 26 My spleen was very strong on me now.45 27“I will gladly fiddle you your fill,” replied Hautboy to Standard. “Come on.” 46 In a few minutes we found ourselves in the fifth story of a sort of storehouse, in a lateral street to Broadway. It was curiously furnished with all sorts of odd furniture which seemed to have been obtained, piece by piece, at auctions of old-fashioned household stuff. But all was charmingly clean and cozy.,Section 3: Detailed Reading,47 Pressed by Standard, Hautboy forthwith got out his dented old fiddle and, sitting down on a tall rickety stool, played away right merrily at “Yankee Doodle” and other offhanded, dashing, and disdainfully carefree airs. 28But common as were the tunes, I was transfixed by something miraculously superior in the style. Sitting there on the old stool, his rusty hat sideways cocked on his head, one foot dangling adrift, he plied the bow of an enchanter. All m