外国语学院11级英美文学基础考查A苔丝读后感

第一篇：外国语学院11级英美文学基础考查A苔丝读后感

外国语学院2013-2014学年度第一学期期末考查 英美文学基础（1）11本（4）（5）2013.12命题人：卢亚林

Term Paper for English and American Literature(1)(A)

(December 2013)

I.Write a paper of about 500 words on any one of the following topics:

1.Shakespeare‟s major themes include love, death and immortality.Please discuss the relationships between these themes as viewed by Shakespeare based on your reading of Sonnet 18 and Romeo and Juliet.2.At the end of Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy states, “„Justice‟ was done, and the President of the Immortals(in Aeschylean phrase)had ended his sport with Tess.” What do you think of this statement?

3.James Joyce uses epiphany as a literary device in most of his short stories as his protagonists come to sudden recognitions of themselves or their social condition.What exactly is the narrator‟s epiphany in the story “Araby”?

A “Pure ”woman? A “fallen ”woman?

----a book review of Tess of the D’Urbervilles

NameMark

Tess of the d’Urbervilles, published in 1891, was Thomas Hardy‟s last and most significant work.In this novel, Hardy reached the height of his achievement as a novelist.Readers are attached not only by the innate beauty, but also the tragic fate of Tess, the heroine.In the novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, although her short life was full of tribulation and strike, she was courageous to face reality and to fight against the evil force.This kind of tenacious attitude towards life and fighting spirit was the most powerful and moving character of Tess.Yet her purity and self-sacrificing character did not bring her good luck but tragedy.She longed to escape from the shadow of the past and unfortunate life, but every tough choice she made only to make her situation go from bad to worse.Obviously, the tragedy of Tess is not only caused by fate, some other important reasons such as the poverty, worldly prejudice, Alec‟s wickedness, Angel‟s conventional ideas as well as Tess‟s character are all directly or indirectly, led to this tragedy.Tess's death was not a small joke played by fate accidentally but was under the interaction of internal and external causes, beautiful, pure, good girl Tess finally embarked on a road of no return.外国语学院2013-2014学年度第一学期期末考查 英美文学基础（1）11本（4）（5）2013.12命题人：卢亚林

With the intertwine of love and hatred, Tess had to end herself with a tragic results.God played with Tess so much.When her right man appeared, God yet didn‟t give her happiness.Tess‟s parents loved her, but it was just an instinctive love;Alec said love to her, but it was an evil love;Angel said love to her as well, but it was an immature and selfish love.Tess didn‟t make any mistakes, but at last, she born all punishments and sufferings.At first, God had let the two persons miss each other.A tragedy was doomed.But perhaps no love, no hatred, no dignity, death was the best way for Tess to extricate herself.Both Alec and Angel violated and made fun of Tess.Tess was injured physically

by Alec and mentally was affected by Angel, Alec and Angel made Tess‟s tragedy from bad to worse by different ways.After Tess told him everything happened to her before, Angel still judged “purity” with conventional value and moral standard that were implanted in him when he was little, and so he was the slave to the custom and conventionality, considered Tess as a “fallen women”.He abandoned his wife for

Brazil, which was a deathblow to innocent Tess.Of course, naturalistic tendency is also strong in the novel.In a way, Tess seems

to be led to her final destruction step by step by fate.Coincidence adds one “wrong” to another until she is caught up in a dead-end.Fate plays a predominate role in what happens to Tess, as Hardy says at the end of the novel: “Justice was done, and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess.” Tess was powerless to

change her fate, because she had been the plaything of a malevolent universe.We can find this fact at the end of the novel, when the narrator makes a statement after Tess is found and executed for the stabbing death of Alec.In this statement, the word “justice” has quotation marks because it means something different for Tess and something different for society.For society, “justice” has been served with the arraignment and execution of a woman who does commit a capital crime.Tess is like Prometheus in that she seems to have been a “toy” of the gods of morality and religion in Victorian England, and she had to be sacrificed for the good of mankind.All of Tess' life is the result of either an accident, fate, or the intervention of the gods.To fully understand the novel, one has to take into consideration both its critical realist and naturalistic significance.

第二篇：英美文学基础作业

Comment on Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”

According the history records,the English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th and early 16th centuries to the early 17th century.During this special period, lots of literature forms grew prosperous.Sonnet was a kind of short lyrics which origined from Italy.During the early period of English Renaissance, it became famous all through the Europe.William Shakespeare, as the most great playwright and poet in England, showed lots of interests on it.As a result, his collection of sonnets were born.Besides, they aroused a big repercussion of the public, sonnet 18 as a typical example.As we all know, Shakespeare`s sonnet is well-constructed.It is divided into two parts, one part concluding twelve lines, the other two.From sonnet 18, we can clearly identify that there are 10 syllables in every line.From the whole poem, it`s easy for us to find its rhyme is “abab, cdcd, efef, gg”.Such regular rhyme makes the whole sonnet 18 easy to read and possessed the sense of rhythm.Because of the thyme, the whole atmosphere is cheerful and lighted-hearted.We reader can easily find the poet is good at analogy.Firstly, Shakespeare described his friend as summer`s day on the purpose of making the comparison between the person and the nature.Secondly, the poet compared his friend as the buds of May.But the poet wrote immediately in the following line that “Summer`s lease hath all too short a date”.This sentence formed anther comparison.Thirdly, Shakespeare used the sun to show his friend.It`s obviously that Shakespeare regard his friend as summer`s day, May, the bud and the sun.The poet uses all these positive ,beautiful things to show his fondness of his friend.However, Shakespeare holds the opinion that his friend is more lovely and more t temperate.All these analogies makes the readers understand poet`s goal vividly.Prising is evidently viewed between the lines.No matter how wonderful the things are the poet doesn`t think they can compare with his friend.From generations to generations, as a result, his friend can be engraved on people`s mind.Shakespeare`s purpose of writing sonnet 18 can be seen in the last line.Sonnet 18 as the most successful example of the sonnet creation, it has much value for us to study deeply.It can be used as the material of studying the development of Renaissance.What`s more, we can see more from the sonnet 18 about the style of the works in the late 15th and early 16th centuries to the early 17th century.

第三篇：复旦2011英美文学 真题回忆 基础英语

复旦 2011 英美文学 真题回忆 基础英语+文学史

基础英语

I.Engliish-Chinese Translation

(Except From Emerson, Nature)

The high and divine beauty which can be loved without effeminacy, is that which is found in combination with the human will.Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.Every natural action is graceful.Every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate.It is his, if he will.He may divest himself of it;he may creep into a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution.In proportion to the energy of his thought and will, he takes up the world into himself.“All those things for which men plough, build, or sail, obey virtue;” said Sallust.“The winds and waves,” said Gibbon, “are always on the side of the ablest navigators.” So are the sun and moon and all the stars of heaven.When a noble act is done,--perchance in a scene of great natural beauty;when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs consume one day in dying, and the sun and moon come each and look at them once in the steep defile of Thermopylae;when Arnold Winkelried, in the high Alps, under the shadow of the avalanche, gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades;are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed? When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America;--before it, the beach lined with savages, fleeing out of all their huts of cane;the sea behind;and the purple mountains of the Indian Archipelago around, can we separate the man from the living picture? Does not the New World clothe his form with her palm-groves and savannahs as fit drapery? Ever does natural beauty steal in like air, and envelope great actions.II.Chinese-English Translation

From 王蒙 《高原的风》（试题中间略有删节）

说这个话的是老宋的至交，身高一米九的老赵。老赵的父亲曾在北洋军阀时期大富大贵，老赵无所不好，无所不能，琴、棋、书、画、摄影、京戏、大鼓、变戏法、拿大顶、抹灰、砌灶……但又无一称精。近年来他的日子也有不少改善，但改不了他那副不梳头、不系领钩、不刮脸的落魄行藏，而且一张口说话常带三分晦气。

真的？长眠=安息。而生活，就是奋斗，就是咬紧牙关，就是承受一个又一个打击。年轻时候他看过电影《墨西哥人》，墨西哥人一声不吭地承受着雨点般落向他的头部面部胸部的拳击。扛起麻袋走在颤悠悠的跳板上真觉得再多一根稻草就能把脊椎压断。在四下透风的教室里给坐在土坯凳子上的孩子讲人生的真谛在于使别人生活得好。给儿子烤一块红瓤白薯。在煤油灯底下一边看书一边揉着眼睛里的水分。越穷还越要留下点积蓄，他又存了一百元定期。生是一种韧性啊。

如今，每天早晨在哗哗作响的喧闹的水声里洗透拖把，把洋灰地擦得像打上了蜡，新鲜的水门汀散发出一股碱腥却喜人的气息。阳光透过大幅针织编花白色窗帘照在绿色的水仙叶上。墙上挂着丝织的徐悲鸿的群马。音箱里时而传出获奥斯卡金像奖影片《爱情故事》的主题曲，大提琴的低音威严而又和暖。客人来了坐在双垫沙发上吸红双喜香烟，喝一块七一两的茶。客人走了把高雅的沙发中一一整理。似乎是飞机失事后幸存者的归家。好像是马拉松赛后运动员泡在热水浴缸里，他如释重负，闭上眼睛，长长地吐一口浊气。

III.Essay writing

Topic: Education and Examnination

英美文学

I.Classification

1)Verse

Drama

2)Meidieval

Renaissance/Augustine/Neoclassical

Englightenment

Romanticism

Modern

Post-modern

3)Author

II.Literary termsfrom 10

III.Critical writing

1)kidspeom/Bairnsang

Liz Lochhead

it wis January

and a gey driech day

the first day Ah went to the school

so my Mum happed me up in ma

good navy-blue napp coat wi the rid tartan hood

birled a scarf aroon ma neck

pu'ed oan ma pixie an' my pawkies

it wis that bitter

said noo ye'll no starve

gie'd me a wee kiss and a kid-oan skelp oan the bum

and sent me aff across the playground

tae the place A'd learn to say

it was January

and a really dismal day

the first day I went to school

so my mother wrapped me up in my

best nay-blue top coat with the red tartan hood,twirled a scarf around my neck,pulled on my bobble-hat and mittens

it was so bitterly cold

said now you won't freeze to death

gave me a little kiss and a pretend slap on the bottom

and sent me off across the playground

to the place I'd learn to forget to say

it wis January

and a gey driech day

the first day Ah went to the school

so my Mum happed me up in ma

good navy-blue napp coat wi the rid tartan hood,birled a scarf aroon ma neck,pu'ed oan ma pixie and' ma pawkies

it wis that bitter.Oh saying it was one thing

But when it came to writing it

In black and white

The way it had to be said

Was as if you were posh, grown-up, male, English and dead.2)a story from Guy de Maupassant，not familiar

Main Plot:

Monsieur Daron, an eighty-six-year-old-man, comes to live at the new spa in Rondelis.He believes himself to be in excellent health, as a result of “careful living.” He has always had “an obsessive fear of death,” and he avoids all pleasure because it may be dangerous.In order to measure and monitor his own condition, M.Daron arranges for the doctor in charge of the springs to visit him once a week with information on the health of everyone else in the surrounding area who is over the age of eighty.When he hears that someone has died, he quickly identifies a cause that might have been avoided;the man who died of pleurisy should not have gone out in the cold, and the one who died of dysentery must have eaten the wrong food.Eventually, though, one old man dies for no apparent reason.The doctor can report no lesion, no disease: “He died because he died, that's all.” M.Daron is horrified and asks the man's age.Eighty-nine.He laughs in relief, saying, “whatever it was, it wasn't old age....”

第四篇：《动物庄园》读后感--英美文学导论

《动物庄园》读后感

《动物庄园》是我看过的为数不多的外国文学作品，里面各种动物的言行举止非常好玩，觉得动物拥有人的行为就格外有趣，有时候读着读着都分不清这到底是人还是动物，而故事中特别是一头叫斯诺鲍的善良的猪，主观的站在了他的一边，想知道他后面的情节，想知道他梦想的动物庄园是不是真的建立了起来，所以迫不及待的想看下去。虽然结局不太如意。

书中的故事并不复杂，在一个名叫曼纳的庄园里，养着各种各样的动物，一天晚上，在动物里颇具威望的老雄猪麦哲召集所有动物开会，宣扬它的革命思想，号召所有动物进行反抗，以改变动物们被奴役、被宰杀的命运，动物不能再遭受剥削，要奋起驱逐人类，过上自己当家作主的幸福自由的生活。老麦哲给动物们讲了一个它才做过的梦，那是一个动物消灭了人类并且过上了梦寐以求的幸福生活的梦，它还教会了动物们一首失传已久的歌《英格兰兽》，以激发动物们的革命热情和革命信心

但年迈的雄猪麦哲在完会后三天去世了，但它的革命理念却在动物中流传开来，革

命的急先锋是它们中最为聪明的猪，它们积极为革命做宣传，做了大量工作，猪里面最杰出聪明的两头猪斯诺鲍和拿破仑成为了革命的主将和领袖。

不久后，在一次极其偶然的冲突中，动物们发动了起义，原来的剥削者农场主被赶走，动物们当家做主了，它们建立了自己的动物庄园

猪理所当然的成为了动物庄园的头领和管理者，因为它们最聪明，它们觉得自己义不容辞的肩负有管理庄园的责任，之后斯诺鲍和拿破仑宣布了动物庄园的第一部“宪法”——七诫。然后动物们开始努力劳动，为生存和发展而奋斗。

在最初的管理工作里，在开大会时，如果两位领导兽一致同意、没有争议，那么这就是一次和谐而完美的会议，其它动物头脑简单，谁跟它说它就觉得谁是对的，而从未有过自己的提议，若两兽同时跟它说它会觉得两者都对，会同时投赞成票。但是，两位最高领导兽拿破仑和斯诺鲍在革命成功后成为了死对头，他们两个一直合不来，斯诺鲍能言善辩，擅长演讲，它的话很有说服力，能使绝大多数的动物信服，而拿破仑则是一个阴谋家，善于玩弄政治，培养了一些忠实的拥护者，奸猾的它用一个光明正大的理由把刚断奶的九个狗崽子弄到了它那里，培养成了自己的私人武装。等这些杀手狗腿子成长起来以后，拿破仑知道自己机会到了，在一次会议中，发动了自己的武装力量，九条恶狗冲了出来，欲置斯诺鲍与死地，斯诺鲍无奈拼命逃出了庄园，在九条狗的震慑下，拿破仑登上大宝，成为独裁者，在另一头口齿伶俐善于欺骗群兽的猪斯奎拉的游说下，动物们傻愣愣的接受了这个现实，未产生一点不满，未发生一起**。马儿鲍克瑟在自己的座右铭“我要更加努力工作”后又加了一条格言以作补充：“拿破仑同志永远正确”。

拿破仑通过九狗和斯奎拉这一威胁一欺骗这两种手段建立了自己的统治，然后颠倒黑白把斯诺鲍污蔑为坏蛋、阴谋家、叛徒，极力的宣扬自己，一步步走上神坛，把自己打造成了一个英明神武睿智老练的领袖，一个能带领群兽们过上美好幸福生活的神。

动物们的生活每况愈下，从开始的不如刚革命的自由时期，到不如革命前受人类统治时期，到最后的抛洒血汗饥肠辘辘，而高高在上的独裁者拿破仑却一点一点的享受起了至尊待遇，睡柔软舒适的大床，吃丰盛的大餐，喝威士忌酒，享有所有的母猪，它用群兽的血汗喂饱了自己，它开始学人类用两条腿走路，和人类做生意，共同剥削压迫动物们，成为了万恶的邪魔。

最后，拿破仑成为了“人”，动物们从猪看到人，再从人看到猪，“但他们已分不出谁是猪，谁是人了。”

这是一部中篇的政治寓言小说，隐喻的写了革命的发生、发展以及革命的变质、革命的被背叛和残酷的革命斗争。我记得它是在写斯大林时期的苏联，书中反映着苏联的变化，斯大林统治之后，特权阶级诞生，劳动人民生活困苦，斯大林曾经为了排除异己，展开了血腥的大清洗运动，加上他国内国际上的政策失误，使苏联作为社会主义国家遭到严重破坏，几乎与真正的社会主义国家背道而驰，马列主义被篡改，统治者越来越腐化，苏联最后和资本主义妥协，背叛了人民和社会主义。

看着书，它的情节时常让我联想到现实，一开始的麦哲，宣传自己的革命理想，不禁让我想到马克思、列宁、孙中山这些人，致力于开民智，宣传革命，撒播革命种子，虽然自己没能看到革命的成功，却开革命之滥觞，给后来者留下无穷的希望。

“拿破仑同志永远正确！”，这让我想到两个凡是，“凡是毛主席说的都是对的，凡是毛主席的指示我们必须坚决执行。”而鲍克瑟，岂不正是当年我们国家忠诚老实却又愚昧的劳苦大众同胞。

书中描绘了一个美好的革命理想是如何一步步被糟践的，由美好到残酷只不过那几步。当一个社会群体民智低下，每个个体都缺乏独立思考和判断的能力，任人糊弄，那么体制再好也是徒然，一个民丄主国家会被少数别有用心的人所把持，以国家机器来满足自己不断膨胀的私欲，将极个别人的意志上升到国家层面。当权力失去了约束，那么权力将变成少数人的权力，他们将凌驾于法律和人民之上，肆意妄为。

《动物庄园》这本书并不长，不过区区五万余字，读完之后不由得感慨丛生。书中对情节发展的把握和众生相的描写十分到位，具体且深刻，在书里，我们可以毫不费力的为现实中的人物找到对应的形象。作者对社会性的描写也非常精辟，百看不厌。

第五篇：2018年厦门大学814阅读及英美文学、语言学基础考研专业课复习全书

2018年厦门大学814阅读及英美文学、语言学基础考研专业课复习全书

本书适用于厦门大学814阅读及英美文学、语言学基础这门专业课。对于想要18年考研厦门大学英语语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学两专业的考生，都是必不可少的复习全书。全书的主要内容有：

1.前言——新鲜有趣的备考精神食粮(1)院系介绍

(2)专业课资料使用建议(3)饮食、住宿、交通信息(4)考研寄语 2.专业课深度解析

(1)2003—2015年历年考点分布及题型结构(2)2013-2015试题分析及2017年命题预测(3)专业课复习建议、注意事项(4)高分学长分享考研初试经验 3.参考书核心考点解析

这部分是全书的精华，按考试科目的内容分为语言学、文学、翻译、写作及阅读共三篇。每篇包括的内容如下：

A：语言学

每个章节包括以下几块内容：

（1）知识框架

（2）复习提示

（3）知识详解考题预测

（4）考点分析（考点提炼、评估重要程度）

（5）考题预测

B：文学

（1）学科整体介绍及复习建议

（2）背景知识

（3）作家作品集锦

（4）名词解释集锦

（5）作品人物分析（英美两国作家各时期作品人物分析）

（6）问答题集锦

（7）诗歌鉴赏（诗歌实例分析讲解）

（8）习题及参考答案

C:阅读

（1）近年优秀考生和名师经验总结（2）阅读题型全攻略 4.专业课历年真题及答案解析

(1)2003—2015年历年真题原题

(2)2003—2015年参考答案及解题分析

(3)答题高分技巧，包括题型解析、真题举例