《红字》，是美国小说家霍桑最著名的作品之一。这里要和小说进行比较的，是1995年黛米摩尔主演的电影版本。
同样是《红字》，故事框架似乎差不多，比起小说，《红字》的电影表现的是现代得多的东西。不仅如此，为了影片的票房考虑，电影中还增加了许多商业元素。小说原著的文笔流畅，但是由于作者的时代局限性，也就是其个人对于未来发展的迷茫，所以看起来十分压抑。电影就要酣畅许多。明显的一点就是，影片中的牧师，比我想象中要狂野许多。
从表现出来的思想上看，原著主要讨论的是人的罪，即人皆有罪。而通过赎罪和将罪行袒露出来，可以使灵魂得到升华。这和作者本身是清教徒身份以及对家族以前犯下的罪过产生的宿命感分不开的。而且，作者虽然觉得当时对人思想的禁锢是不对的，但是，他对变革也抱有怀疑态度。但是电影就不一样了。时代向前推进了不是一点半点，现在思想解放已被公认，所以在影片中，海斯特的言行就更加坚定。霍桑只是向未来窥探，而导演却是回望，自然占了很大便宜。因此，再在电影中单纯的表现人皆有罪的思想便会显得不合时宜甚至怪异晦涩了。是以海斯特的丈夫的戏份被明显减少了。那么用什么来填补思想的空白呢？电影中表现海斯特和牧师间的爱情的戏份增加了，印第安人的戏份也明显增加了。特别是后者，甚至带来了影片结尾的大规模战斗场面，也许导演想为沉闷的全局制造一个高潮吧。恐怕用心白费了，因为后来强安上去的大团圆结尾实在突兀。
小说中海斯特是迷茫的，她为了爱人而拒绝说出情夫的名字，又因为愧疚和恐惧发誓不向他人透露自己丈夫的身份。电影中海斯特是坚定的，从不认为自己有罪，也完全站在爱人的一边。在影片中她去警告了牧师约瑟，而影片刚开始海斯特乘马车去找房子的时候，镇上的人都在看她，说明到镇上的人不多，每个新人都很受关注，约瑟不可能不知道海斯特的丈夫的身份。事实上，从后面的情节中可以知道，他知道的。海斯特的不同表现表明，霍桑对爱情和教义本身就存在迷茫，他既肯定两人之间的爱是伟大的，是上天的赐予，又认定通奸是罪。电影导演明显是将“爱情”这种人性需求放至第一位。他在为两个人的行为辩护。
电影对“女巫案”的映射部分还是保留的很好，也算是忠于原著了。但是小说中描写红字被海斯特装饰的异常美丽在电影中几乎没表现出来，更别提原著结尾海斯特是又回到这里，自愿带上红字，度过余生；而海斯特因为善良能干逐渐被众人接受也丝毫没有提及，这恐怕是因为要为引出影片结尾的战斗而不得不舍弃了吧。基于以上两点，我认为，电影在表现海斯特的坚韧善良方面比原著差远了。商业和思想似乎从来都是跷跷板的两端，我个人认为本片在这两端的平衡上处理的不好。
总的来说，影片不如原著，影片最后的结局真是太美好了（相比原著）不过Oldman 的演技可圈可点，把男人的无助与软弱表现的淋漓尽致，影片减弱了原著的批判性，不过从爱情的层面上来说，反而更动人
必读英美文学经典作品20本 American Literature 1、The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Howthorne《红字》霍桑著 小说惯用象征手法，人物、情节和语言都颇具主观想象色彩，在描写中又常把人的心理活
动和直觉放在首位。因此，它不仅是美利坚合众国浪漫主义小说的代表作，同时也被称作 是美利坚合众国心理分析小说的开创篇。 2、The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 《哈克贝利.芬历险记》 简称《赫克》是美国文学中的珍品,也是美国文化中的珍品。十六年前【1984】 ,美国文坛为《赫克》出版一百周年举行了广泛的庆祝活动和学术讨论,也出版了一些研究马克吐温,特别是他的《赫克》的专著。专门为一位大作家的一本名著而举行如此广泛的纪念和专门的研究,这在世界文坛上也是少有的盛事。这是因为《赫克》的意义不一般. 美国著名作家海明威说, "一切现代美国文学来自一本书, 即马克吐温的《赫克尔贝里芬历险记》……这是我们所有书中最好的。一切美国文学都来自这本书,在它之前,或在它之后,都不曾有
过能与之媲美的作品。 3、The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 《贵妇画像》 亨利.詹姆斯著】 美国小说家亨利·詹姆斯的《贵妇画像》自问世以来一直受到文学评论界的关注，专家学者已从各个不同角度对女主人伊莎贝尔·阿切尔作了深入细致的研究。本文试图从一个全新的视角，即跨文化交际角度，剖析伊莎贝尔在婚姻方面所作的选择。文章指出她是该小说中跨文化交际的最大失败者，并对其失败原因作了分析。希望在跨文化交际日益频繁的今天我们都能从伊莎贝尔的生活经历中得到某种启发。
“英美文学作品赏析”课程简介 一、课程简介 “英美文学作品赏析”(“Appreciation of British and American Literary Works”)是依据教育部颁布的《大学英语课程教学要求》中的较高要求，为非英语专业大学生开设的“语言文化”类课程。课程以阅读名家名作精彩片段为主，以欣赏相关作品音频、视频片段为辅，通过阅读、讲授、讨论、表演、诵读、赏析等生动活泼的形式，使学生了解英美两国文学简史，理解经典作品的主要艺术特色。本课程从考勤、学习过程、期末开卷考试三方面评估学生的学习情况。通过听、读、说、写、译的综合训练，致力于培养学生运用英语学科基础知识、运用文学常识鉴赏评析作品的能力。在轻松愉快的氛围中，提高学生的团队合作、创造性思维、跨文化交际能力，增强学生对英美文学、文化的兴趣与感悟力，促进学生语言基本功和人文修养的提高。 二、课程内容 课程共48学时，主要内容为：
三、课程考核 本课程的考查方式为：过程管理评估+期末考试评估 过程管理部分的考核构成学生平时成绩，占期末总成绩的40%；期末考试卷面成绩占期末总成绩的60%，即： 学生学期成绩=平时成绩40%+期末考试成绩60% 平时成绩=出勤40%+课堂表现20%+作业40% （作业包括翻译、课堂陈述、课堂表演、写作等灵活多样的形式） 期末考试方式：开卷考试（内容：英美文学常识，作品选段理解，作品选段分析等）四、选课指南 “英美文学作品赏析”是一门文化素养课。课程信息量大、文化内涵丰富，意图拓宽学生知识面，加深其英美国家文化底蕴，提高其人文修养。课程组在教学中力图做到精选作家、作品选段，精心选择相应的音频、视频选段，自制优美的PPP课件，精心组织教学活动，力争通过诵读、观赏、跟读、翻译、表演、陈述等丰富多彩的活动调动同学们的积极性，使其积极参与课堂活动。不少同学反映该课程对他们的英语学习和知识扩展有很大帮助，对英美作家的心路历程和写作历程感受颇深，自己“受益匪浅”。摘录同学评价如下： *“我学习到了很多，更收获到了自己心里憧憬已久的东西，感觉很是幸福。” “该课给了我接触文学，了解文学的机会。在现在这个物欲横流的社会，……我们需要一
The Scarlet Letter:Self-redemption Abstract:Hawthorne’s works, whether novels or short stories, Hawthorne can be seen often in a symbolic way, the community was ugly in a didactic way of ethics displayed in the reader's eyes.So "evil" in his work has always dominated, and Hawthorne's life is also exploring how to treat "evil" to the problem."The Scarlet Letter," Hawthorne's masterpiece as a profound reflection of Hawthorne's work reflects the core of Christian ethics: the common people sin and crime of this mercy and salvation.Based on the "The Scarlet Letter," characters and content of the re-excavation works in the salvation of Hawthorne to interpret. Key Words: The Scarlet Letter；Hawthorne；salvation；ethics. 红字：救赎 摘要：霍桑的作品 ,不论是长篇小说 ,还是短篇小说 ,都可以看出霍桑常常用一种象征的手法 ,把当时社会的种种丑恶用一种伦理说教的方式展示在读者的眼前。因此“罪恶”在他的作品里始终占据着主导地位 ,而霍桑的一生也正是在探讨应该怎样对待“罪恶”这一问题。《红字》作为霍桑的代表作深刻地体现了霍桑作品中折射了基督教伦理的核心：人的普遍罪性，以及对这罪性的怜悯和救赎。本文通过对《红字》人物形象及内涵的挖掘重新对霍桑作品中的救赎进行解读。 关键词：红字；霍桑；救赎；伦理
Part One：English Poetry 1.William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 ?Why does the poet compare `thee` to a summer?s day? And who could `thee` be? Because summer?s day and thee both represent beauty . thee could be beauty, love. ?What picture have you got of English summer, and could you explain why? Warm, beautiful, sunshine. Because summer is the best season of a year ,the most beautiful season. It is like our May. ?How does the poet answer the question he puts forth in the first line? Thee is more beautiful than summer. ?What makes the poet think that “thou” can be more fair than summer and immortal? Because humanism is more eternal than summer and immortal. ?What figures of speech are used in this poem? Simile, metaphor, personification, oxymoron and so on . ?What is the theme of the poem? Love conquers all, Beauty lives on. 2. Thomas Nashe Spring ?Read the poem carefully, pay attention to those image- bearing words, and see how many images the poet created in the poem and what sense impressions you can get from those images. There is “Blooms each thing, maids dance in a ring, the pretty birds do sing, the palm and may make country houses gay, Lambs frisk' and play, the shepherds pipe all day, And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay, The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit, In every street these tunes bur ears do greet!” The “Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit，”impressions me most because of the harmony of the people?s relationship. ?Can you point out and explain the sound and their musical effect in the poem? In the Poem, each section has four lines, each line has ten syllables ( five tone step ) . In order to give the reader a spring breeze , streams , flowers , winding , Song Xin texture of sound and light flavor, Naixi greater uses English word S , z , f , V , R , L , and θconsonants means. In Naixi's poem, the use of phonological is also very harmonious, very smooth , very mellow. Section I of the poetry has Three pairs [ ing ] , section II of the poem has three pairs [ ei ] and the third quarter has three pairs [ i : ]. 3.John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning ?What is a “valediction” any way? Is the speaker in the poem about to die? Why does the speaker forbid mourning? No, it is about the lover s?separation. As the poem metaphors, the poet believed he and his wife?s love is sacred, he didn?t hope they cry when separation comes, let their love be stained by the ordinary and mundane.
A Reading Report of The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804—May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. He was a key figure in the development of American literature for his tales of the nation’s colonial history. His four major novels were written between 1850 and 1860, and they were The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun. The story took place in Boston about 200 years ago. It narrated love affairs between three persons. They were Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth. Roger was an old misshapen man and a doctor. Hester was his wife, but she did not love him at all. Two years ago, Hester was sent alone across the ocean by Roger. However, Roger did not show up thereafter. While waiting, Hester fell in love with another man, Dimmesdale, who was a young minister and had a high position among ministers and was highly respected among his people in town. Hester and Dimmesdale loved each other, but their love was forbidden in that time. It was sinful because they committed adultery. And the secret was finally discovered because of Hester’s pregnancy. Due to this, Hester was punished by society with a letter A on her chest, which was considered as an evil and a shame. However, Hester refused to tell the name of the father even when she was asked to stand on the scaffold. And she chose to bear all the shame and punishment by herself. At the same time, Roger Chillingworth appeared and tried to take revenge on the adulterer. As time goes on, Hester’s daughter, Pearl was seven years old. And Roger became a real devil. He pretended to live with Dimmesdale to treat his disease. Actually, he just wanted to revenge him. Finally, Dimmesdale was weaker and weaker. In the end, Dimmesdale told the truth to the folks on the scaffold that he was Pearl’s father, and then he died. Roger also died after one year because the revenge took his all energy and strength. Hester then lived alone in her cottage far away from the city by herself. Pearl became a rich woman and lived in a happy life. When Hester died, she was buried next to Dimmesdale. The two shared a single tombstone, with a deep colored letter A shining
A Analysis of the Women Characters in David Copperfield Class:09商务Name: 唐东No.0907030044 Abstract:David Copperfield was written by Charles Dickens,who is the greatest representative of English critical realism in the nineteenth century. One of Dickens's favorite novels,David Copperfield is known all over the world for the well-portrayed characters based on the writer's own life.In David Copperfield,dozens of women characters are portrayed ranging from rich women to poor servants.This paper analyzes some of the women characters in the novel,through which Dickens reveals his attitude toward marriage. . Key words:women characters love family marriage Ⅰ、The goddess The representative figure of The goddess are Peggotty,the loyal maidservant and David’aunt Miss Betsey Trotwood. Peggotty is Dav id’s first goddess,she is not beautiful and fat.But she is loyal.She treated David as her own son,and David regards her as his mother or maybe his father.She treats David full of sympathy and cherish.She see through Mr Murdstone’s conspiracy,and give David help and protect when he was in danger.In an other hands,Peggotty was lack of culture so she only tell David in emotional .Let David know there also love in the world althought his mother was died. ‘Master David ,my love. But don't forget，I'll take care of your mother. She needs her cross old Peggotty！I'll stay with her，although I hate these Murdstones. And remember，David, I love you as much as I love your mother，and more. And I'll Write to you.’ Miss Betsey Trotwood,David’s aunt is another goddess in his life.She meet David’s mother at the night which David born,but go away never look back.Maybe she is a little eccentric. ‘You were talking about the baby．I'm sure it'll be a girl．Now，as soon as she’ s born…’ ‘He，perhaps，’ said my mo ther bravely．‘Don’ t be stupid，of course it’
《英美文学作品赏析》教学大纲 课程编号：E032019 课程类型：专业选修课 课程名称：英美文学作品赏析英文名称：Reading American & British Literary Works 学分：2 适用专业：英语专业 第一部分大纲说明 一、课程的性质、目的和任务 《英美文学作品赏析》是针对英语专业高年级学生，并在其学习了《英国文学》和《美国文学》两门专业基础课之后，开设的一门旨在提高学生鉴赏英美文学经典作品能力的专业选修课。本课根据学生的兴趣、语言水平以及相关文化等因素，从全新的角度选择了英美不同时期作家的代表作，主要是小说作品，材料难度适中，涉猎广泛。本课程的教学目的是使学生通过阅读和理解英美重要作家的小说作品，掌握其体裁特点、思想内涵、文体风格、所属流派和写作技巧等方面的文学知识；学会分析小说作品的艺术特色，提高英语阅读欣赏水平和英语写作技巧，提高文学欣赏水平及文学批评能力；拓展文化视野，扩大接触异国文化的范围，提高对中外文化的异同的敏感性和鉴别能力。本课程的教学任务是帮助学生在巩固所学基础知识与技能的同时，提升学生对英美经典小说作品的鉴赏能力，提高学生的文学素养和文化底蕴，从而为其将来得心应手地参加实际工作打下良好的基础。 二、课程的基本要求 1. 知识要求： 1)了解—英美不同时期和阶段的重要作家和其小说代表作。 2)熟悉—各个所选作家的文学生涯、创作思想、艺术特色及其小说代表作的思想内涵、主 题结构、文体风格、所属流派、人物刻画、语言风格、写作技巧等。 3)掌握—一定的欣赏小说作品的技巧和方法。 2．能力要求： 1)了解—通过阅读经典小说，巩固所学文学知识，扩大词汇量，增强语感，培养学生独立 阅读、欣赏文学作品的能力。 2)熟悉—通过浏览网上的文学资源库，观看文学名著影片，举办作品欣赏讨论会，尝试名 著改写，表演人物对话等实践性教学活动，培养学生阅读、分析以及理解小说作品的鉴 赏能力、思辨能力和文学批判能力。 3)掌握—通过一定的阅读强化训练，加强学生文学鉴赏的敏感性和语言综合应用能力，全 面提高学生的人文素质。 三、课程与相关课程的联系 本课程既是《英国文学》和《美国文学》的拓展课程，又与基础阶段的其他专业课程相辅相成。要求学生不仅具备扎实的语言基本功，一定的听、说、读、写能力，尤其是读的能力，还要了解英美
1.A novel is a highly stylized prose account of fictional reality in the form of story with profundity for the purpose of changing the reader’s mind by the aid of the reader’s active involvement while providing entertainment and superior truth of life. 2.Character is an invented personality to resemble but never to equal a real person in life. Characters refer to people, animals, things, etc. in a literary work presented as people. 3.A plot is a particular arrangement of happenings in a novel that is aimed at revealing their causal relationships or at conveying the novelist’s ideas. 4.The theme of a novel is its controlling idea or its central insight about human beings and life. 5.Epistolary novel is a novel which consists of the letters the characters write to each other. 6.Roman a Clef is a novel with a key, and the key is usually a famous figure or, in some cases, the author. 7.Nonfictional novel is a novel that depicts real events with techniques of fiction. 8.Anagnorisis refers to the recognition by the tragic hero of some truth about his or her identity or actions that accompanies the reversal of the situation in the plot, the peripeteia. 9.Catharsis refers to the the purging of the emotions of pity and fear that are aroused in the viewer of a tragedy. 10.Hamartia refers to the "tragic flaw" of the hero such as "sin," "error," "trespass,“and "missing the mark". 11.A ballad refers to a short simple narrative poem often relating a dramatic event (folk and literary). 12.A narrative poem is one that mainly tells a relatively complete story. 13.A sonnet is a lyric invariably of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, restricted to a definite rhyme scheme. 1）Petrarchan Sonnet: Italian sonnet; Named after Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374), the Italian poet; Introduced into English poetry in the early 16th century by Sir Thomas Wyatt; Structure: an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba and a sestet of various rhyme patterns such as cdecde, cdcdcd or cde edc.; Octave: projecting and developing a subject in the octave; sestet: executing a turn 2）Shakespearean Sonnet: Elizabethan sonnet; English sonnet; Developed first by Henry Howard (1517-1547) ; Structure: 3 quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg; 1st quatrain: introducing an idea; 2nd quatrain: complicating it; 3rd quatrain: complicating it still further; final epigrammatic couplet: resolving the whole thing 3）Spenserian Sonnet: a variant on the English Sonnet; Named after the 16th Century poet Edmund Spenser; Structure: 3 quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee. 14.Rhyme refers to the repetition of the stressed vowel sound and all succeeding sounds. 15.Rhythm is communicated by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables 16.Image refers to the element in a poem that sparks off the senses, the representation of sense experience through language
1.The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. 2.Geoffrey Chaucer is regarded as the father of English poetry. 3.The verse form of heroic couplet was introduced into English poetry and employed in the poem with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English literature by Geoffrey Chaucer. 4.The Canterbury Tales presents a whole gallery of vivid characters, the team of pilgrims, people from all walks of life, including 31 members altogether. 5.Generally, Renaissance refers to the intellectual movement during the period between 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence was humanism. 6.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama. 7.William Shakespeare’s writing is widely regarded as one of the three main sources of the English literature, while the other two are Greek and Roman myths, and the Bible. 8.William Shakespeare leaves a great body of literary works to the world, including 37 plays, 154 sonnets and 2 narrative poems. 9.In reading Shakespeare, you must have come across the line “To be or not to be – that is the question” by Hamlet in Hamlet. 10.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” (Shakespeare, “Sonnet 18”) The word “this” refers to poetry. 11.Shakespeare’s four great tragedies include Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth, usually considered as some of the finest works in the English language. 12.In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s humanism is evidently seen in his praise of human love and in his defiance of feudal discord. 13. A sonnet is a poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter,with rhymes arranged according to a certain definite patterns. 14.Francis Bacon’s words, “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention,” describes the importance of reading, and different ways to deal with different books as well. 15.The Glorious Revolution in 1688meant the supremacy of Parliament, the beginning of modern England and the triumph of the principle of political liberty. 16.Metaphysical poetry refers to the works of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne, with the general theme of carpe diem. 17.John Donne in his poem“The Flea” claim that killing the lover, the flea and thus committing sacrilege constitute “three sins”. 18.Epic is a long verse narrative on a serious subject, told in a formal and elevated style, and centered on a heroic or quasi-divine figure on whose actions depends the fate of a tribe, nation or the human race. 19.Enlighteners believed that freedom, democracy, and reason are the primary values of society. 20.In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a naive & simple youth into a mature & hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his 28 years of living on an
《英美文学欣赏》课程教学大纲 课程代码：040342001 课程英文名称：Appreciation of British and American Literature 课程总学时：32 讲课：32 实验：0 上机：0 适用专业：国际经济与贸易 大纲编写（修订）时间：2012.9 一、大纲使用说明 （一）课程的地位及教学目标 英美文学欣赏是为国际经济与贸易专业学生开设的一门培养学生人文素质，增强学生对英语语言运用能力的课程，课程主要介绍英美文学各个时期的主要文化思潮，文学流派，主要作家及其作品。本课程在国际经济与贸易的培养计划中，起到完善知识结构的作用。课程在教学内容方面，除了介绍和欣赏主要文学作品外，通过课堂讨论等灵活的教学方式，促进学生了解西方文化，提高学生对文化差异的敏感性和宽容性，培养学生对英美文学的鉴赏能力。 通过本课程的学习，学生将达到以下要求： 1.掌握英美文学的发展脉络。 2.了解代表作家的文学生涯、创作思想、所属流派、语言风格及写作技巧等。 3.具备初步的对英美文学作品的鉴赏能力。 （二）知识、能力及技能方面的基本要求 1.了解英美文学不同时期的主要作家及其代表作。 2.了解英美社会文化与习俗。 3.具备一定的语言交际能力、跨文化交际能力和思辨能力。 （三）实施说明 1.教学方法：本课程鼓励采用启发式、交互式等教学方式，鼓励学生将自主学习和合作学习相结合，培养学生的自学能力，充分发挥学生的主观能动性。 2.教学手段：在教学中充分利用多媒体技术，鼓励学生自行观看英美文学名著影片，增加实践性教学活动，如表演人物对话等，进行全方位、立体化教学。 （四）对先修课的要求 本课程的教学须在完成先修课程之后进行，本课程主要的先修课程有大学英语、外贸英文契约、外贸英文函电和国际商务等。 （五）对习题课、实践环节的要求 习题内容及测试方向应根据教学内容的特点而突出重点。实践环节可以采用让学生观看经典影片、撰写文学述评以及表演人物对话等形式加强学生对英美文学作品的认识和理解。 （六）课程考核方式 1．考核方式：考查 2．成绩构成：本课程的总成绩主要由两部分组成，即平时成绩和期末成绩，其中，平时考核包括课堂表现、课后作业和出勤等情况，课堂表现主要考核学生在课堂上的参与程度、团队协作精神等相关表现，课后作业形式可采用准备课前presentation、翻译、读后感、观后感和小论文等；期末考核采用开卷考试、论文和口头答辩（采用英语语言）相结合的方式，平时考核的比例占30%，期末考核的比例占70%。 （七）参考书目 《英美文学》，张佩、方映、范成功主编，天津大学出版社，2011 《英美文学欣赏》，刁克利主编，中国人民大学出版社，2011
英美文学鉴赏 ——从人物的语言角度赏析鉴赏一篇文章，我们可以从不同的角度去分析，而作品中人物的语言描写就 是一个比较常见的角度。 语言描写是塑造人物形象的重要手段，一段精彩的语言描写可以鲜明地展示人物的性格，生动地表现人物的思想感情，深刻地反映人物的内心世界，让读者“如闻其声，如见其人”，使读者留下深刻的印象。 语言描写包括人物的独白和对话。作品中出现的独白是人物心理活动的表现。莎士比亚的四大悲剧之一《哈姆雷特》中有这样一段经典的独白：“To be, or not to be- that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer……”父亲突然死亡，叔叔继位并且娶嫂为妻，与此同时，一个深夜，父亲冤死的鬼魂出现，让他复仇，之前精神的痛苦已使哈姆雷特的精神颓唐，而鬼魂揭露的真相又加重了他的心理负担。在这样的情况下，哈姆雷特的内心才有这样一段独白。这段独白反映了当时哈姆雷特内心的痛苦与纠结，他既希望可以可走出黑暗，但又摆脱不了对死亡的恐惧。语言描写不仅反映了人物的心理活动，而且还预示并推动了整个故事的发展，从这段独白来看，我们不难看出接下来哈姆雷特会不惜一切代价复仇，而最终以悲剧收尾。 相比于独白，以对话形式出现的语言描写更常见。从这些对话中，我们可以了解到人物的一些性格特征。在马克?吐温的小说《汤姆?索亚历险记》中，有这样一段对话：“喂，汤姆，让我来刷点儿看看。”汤姆想了一下，正打算答应他；可是他立刻又改变了主意：“不，不行，本，我想这恐怕不行。要知道，波莉姨妈对这面墙是很讲究的，这可是当街的一面，不过要是后面的，你刷刷倒也无妨，姨妈也不会在乎的。是，她对这道墙是非常讲究的。刷这墙一定得非常精心。我想在一千，也许在两千个孩子里，也找不出一个能按波莉姨妈的要求刷好这道墙的。”“是吗？哎，就让我试一试吧。我只刷一点儿，汤姆，如果我是你的话，我会让你试试的。”“本，我倒是愿意，说真的。可是，波莉姨妈，唉，吉姆想刷，可她不叫他刷，希德也想干，她也不让希德干。现在，你知道我该有多么为难？要是你来摆弄这墙，万一出了什么毛病……”本来是一件谁都不想干的苦差事，可是经过汤姆这么一渲染，就有人傻傻地上当了，自愿帮他刷墙。从这一段对话中，我们可以发现汤姆是一个有智慧的人，并且善于利用他的智慧。马克?吐温在这个地方就为下文汤姆带领小伙伴们去历险并取得一定的成功做了铺垫。 语言描写时加入了说话者的语气、动作和神态，使人物性格更加鲜明，让读者有亲临现场，亲眼目睹此番情景的真切感受，更符合生活的真实。通过分析作品中人物的语言描写，我们可以去了解一个人，从而去理解整部作品。 110204218 王磊