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1、John Galsworthy 约翰高尔斯华绥,（1867-1933）,1.His life and career 2.His works 3.The major work 4.The characters of his writing 5.The well-known sayings,COLUMN,1. Life and Career 1.1 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 ma
2、n. 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 Works,The Man of Property (1906) In Chancery (1920) To Let (1921) The White Monkey (1924) The Silver Spoon (1926) Swa
3、n 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 Bos
4、inney Forsytism:The specifically English type of bourgeois morality and social attitudes. Theme: Property and its effect on the personal relationships,3. The Major Work,4.1 He is a conventional writer, having inherited the fine traditions of the great Victorian novelists of the critical realism with
5、 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 Writting,5. The Wel
6、l-known Sayings,5.1 “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.,Thank you!,2010级英语1班 姚岚,
