西洋文學概論Week15

The content of the course

 

1. Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created

some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the

greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented

popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars

had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy

lasting popularity.

 

 

David Copperfield

 

David Copperfield, is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. It was first published

as a serial in 1849–50, and as a book in 1850. Many elements of the novel follow

events in Dickens' own life, and it is probably the most autobiographical of his

novels. In the preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens wrote, "like many fond parents,

I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield."

 

 

A Christmas Carol

 

A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, commonly

known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published

in London by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The novella met with

instant success and critical acclaim. A Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter

old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler,

kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob

Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.

 

 

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3. Christmas song:

 《Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas》

 

 

4. Saint Joseph

 

 

Joseph is a figure in the Gospels, the husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary,

the mother of Jesus, and is venerated as Saint Joseph in the Catholic Church,

Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion,

Lutheranism and Methodism. Christian tradition places Joseph as Jesus' foster

father. Some historians state that Joseph was Jesus's father. Some differing views

are due to theological interpretations versus historical views.

 

 

 

 

5. Blessed Virgin Mary

 

 

According to the New Testament, Mary, also known as St Mary the Virgin,

the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Mary, Mary the Mother of God, or the

Virgin Mary—amongst other titles, styles and honorifics—was a Galilean

Jewishwoman of Nazareth and the mother of Jesus.

The gospels of Matthew and Luke in the New Testament describe Mary as a

virgin and Christians believe that she conceived her son while a virgin by the

Holy Spirit. This took place when she was already betrothed to Joseph and was

awaiting the concluding rite of marriage, the formal home-taking ceremony. She

married Joseph and accompanied him to Bethlehem, where Jesus was born.

According to ancient Jewish custom, Mary could have been betrothed at about 12,

however, there is no direct evidence of Mary's age at betrothal or in pregnancy.

 

 

 

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7.Adam and Eve

 

 

Adam and Eve, according to the creation myths of the Abrahamic religions,

were the first man and woman. The story of Adam and Eve is central to the

belief that God created human beings to live in a paradise on earth, although

they fell away from that state and formed the present world full of suffering

and injustice. It provides the basis for the belief that humanity is in essence a

single family, with everyone descended from a single pair of original ancestors.

It also provides much of the scriptural basis for the doctrines of the fall of man

and original Sin, important beliefs in Christianity, although not generally shared

by Judaism or Islam.

                                                                                      

original Sin

Original sin, also called ancestral sin, is the Christian doctrine of humanity's

state of sin resulting from the fall of man, namely the sin of consuming from the

tree of knowledge of good and evil, stemming from Adam's rebellion in Eden.

This condition has been characterized in many ways, ranging from something as

insignificant as a slight deficiency, or a tendency toward sin yet without collective

guilt, referred to as a "sin nature", to something as drastic as total depravity or

automatic guilt of all humans through collective guilt.

 

 

8. fig leaf

A fig leaf is widely used figuratively to convey the covering up of an act or

an object that is embarrassing or distasteful with something of innocuous

appearance, a metaphorical reference to the Biblical Book of Genesis, in

which Adam and Eve used fig leaves to cover their nudity after eating the

fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Some paintings and

statues have the genitals of their subjects covered by a representation of an

actual fig leaf or similar object, either as part of the work or added afterwards

 for perceived modesty.

 

 

 

 

Charles Dickens

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David Copperfield

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A Christmas Carol

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Saint Joseph

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Adam and Eve

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Agamemnon

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Fig leaf

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