高级英语第三课blackmail.ppt

Lesson 3,Blackmail-Arthur Hailey,罗昕珏 吴韩单秋燕 孙梅,Contents,Brief introduction about Arthur HaileyBackground about“Blackmail”Character analysisPlotTextual structure,Im Arthur Hailey,Brief introduction about Arthur Hailey,Nationality:British and Canadian.Born:Luton（卢顿）,Bedfordshire(贝德福德郡),1920;emigrated to Canada in 1947:became citizen,1952.Education:Elementary schools in England.Military Service:Served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force,1939-47:Flight Lieutenant（中尉）.Career:Office boy and clerk,London,1934-39;assistant editor,1947-49,and editor,1949-53,Bus and Truck Transport,Toronto;sales promotion manager,Trail Mobile Canada,Toronto,1953-56.Since 1956 freelance writer.Awards:Canadian Council of Authors and Artists award,1956;Best Canadian TV Playwright award,1957,1958;Doubleday Prize Novel award,1962.,He had begun his writing life as a journalist on a transport magazine,but got his break as a fiction writer when,during a flight,he began to ponder what would happen if both pilots fell sick from food poisoning.The storyline led to his first big success.Hailey said he detached（分离）himself from his plots and characters once a book had been sold to Hollywood.Having tried script-writing at one stage in his career,he saw movie-making as a completely different discipline from novel writing and decided to stick with what he knew.,Novels 1958 Flight into Danger(with John Castle)1959 The Final Diagnosis-最后诊断-hospital politics1962 In High Places-Cold War Era politics in North America1965 Hotel 大饭店-hotels1968 Airport-航空港-airport politics 1971 Wheels-automobile industry 1975 The Moneychangers-钱商-banks 1979 Overload-超载-power crisis in California 1984 Strong Medicine-烈药-pharmaceutical industry 1990 The Evening News-newscasters 1997 Detective-investigation politics Plays 1960 Close-Up(collected plays)Film Screenplays 1957 Time Lock 1961 The Young Doctors 1978 Wheels,Hailey bestsellers include:,Hotel大饭店Airport航空港Motor city汽车城The Final Diagnosis最后诊断The Money Changers钱商Strong Medicine烈药Evening news晚报,How did he write the Hotel,He would spend about one year researching a subject,followed by six months reviewing his notes and,finally,about 18 months writing the book.That aggressive research tracking rebel guerrillas in the Peruvian(秘鲁人)jungle at age 67 for The Evening News(1990),or reading 27 books on the hotel industry for Hotel gave his novels a realism that appealed to readers,even as some critics complained that he used it to disguise a lack of literary talent.,Background information,About the novel Hotel The St.Gregory Hotel is the largest in New Orleans,Louisiana.For 4 days from Monday evening to Friday,the hotel goes through a succession of dramatic events.With the hotels mortgage due by the weekend and with no chance of getting further renewal,the owner,Warren Trent,reluctantly makes up his mind to sell his hotel to a chain hotel owner,Curtis OKeefe.,Background information,So the story is about St.Gregory,an independent New Orleans hotel,and its managements struggle to regain profitability and avoid being assimilated into the OKeefe chain of hotels.The St.Gregory is supposedly based on the Roosevelt Hotel.,Character analysis:,Ogilvie1.Appearance:fat,piggy eyes,gross jowled face,obese body,incongruous falsetto voice,moving with surprising speed 2.Character:at first rude,sardonic,self-assured,shameless greedy,but finally subservient,Duchess,1.Appearance:pale cheek with two high points,gray-green eyes 2.Character:imperious,three centuries and a half of inbred arrogance,decisive,vigilant,very quick in response,Duke,1.Appearance:attempt to square his shoulders but failed2.uncertain,ready to compromise,passive,despairingly,Eg:“Thats interesting,I didnt know that.”The duke spoke as if he was speaking of sb.unrelated to the whole thing.,Stage photo,Plot,Basic situation:the hit-n-runOgilvie has found the evidence Rising action:Ogilvie goes to see the Duke and Duchess in order to get money(blackmail).He shows his evidence to them.Ogilvie controls the situation and plays with it.,Dramatic turn(climax):the Duchess makes the offertakes the controlOutcome:Ogilvie takes the offer,Textual structure,The conflicts(the problemthe end of the problem)Crime:Duchess:she tries to deny the factOgilvie:he presents the evidences of crime one by one.Money:Ogilvie:he wants to get large sum of money on the condition that he keeps quiet of what he knows about the crime.Duchess:she wants to make full advantage of Ogilvies greed.She may offer more money than he had asked on the condition that he drives the car(the very evidence of the crime)to Chicago.,Part 1.Prelude(1-3)(The chief house officer.Ogilvie remained standing)Section 1.The setting,main characters,and the suspension.(The chief house.that both might return at any moment.)Section 2.The preliminary encounter between the house detective and the Croydons.(A wave of cigar smoke.Ogilvie remained standing),Part2:4-22Process of unveiling the crime(Now then.the Duchess turned away）Section 1.First round of clash.the Duke confessed his crime(Now then.Now were getting somewhere).Section 2.Second round of clash.(Wearily,in a gesture.I can prove all I need to)Ogilvie spelt out what he had found out about the activity of the Croydons and tried to confirm all the details.The Duchess tried to win back the upper hand.Section 3.The conviction was undeniable.(The Duke cautioned.the Duchess turned away).The Croydons realized that they were convicted of the crime,Part 3.23-99The Dirty DealSection 1.Eliminating the possibility of having the car repaired in New Orleans.(Her husband asked.You people are hot).Section 2.The interior monologue of the Duchess.Her judgement,analysis and calculation of the situation,weighing the advantages and disadvantages.(The duchess.Or had they?)Section 3.The Duchess decision to gamble on the greed of the house detective.(The Duchess faced Ogilvie.the silence hung),Section 4.100-109 The ending.The dirty deal reached!,Thank you!,