选修10《Using LanguageⅠ》集体备课PPT课件优质课下载

选修10《Using LanguageⅠ》集体备课PPT课件优质课下载

please recommend another classical one to me?

Sharing Time:

Share a novel that you have read recently

Do you like it? Why?

Lead-in

Element of recommending a novel:

Plot

Character

Writer

Historical role

Brief introduction

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What I want to recommend is A Dream of Red Mansions to him.

Please go through the reading material and mark down some useful points– writer, historical role, plot, brief introduction, characters etc that you may use to serve as the reasons to recommend the book.

Reading Task

It was composed by?Cao Xueqin.

Dream of the Red Mansions is one of China's Four Great Classical Novels. It is a masterpiece of?Chinese literature, and is regarded as the pinnacle of Chinese fiction.

Writer and historical role

The novel describes the Jias’ wealth and influence in great?naturalistic?detail, and charts the Jias’ fall from the height of their prestige, following some thirty main characters and over four hundred minor ones. Eventually the Jia clan falls into disfavor with the?Emperor, and their mansions are raided and confiscated.

Plot and the brief introduction

Red Chamber mirrors the rise and decline of author Cao Xueqin's own family.

The novel is famous for its precise and detailed observation of the life and social structures typical of 18th-century Chinese society.

Plot and the brief introduction

The main character of the novel is the carefree adolescent male heir of the family,?Jia Baoyu. In this life he has a special bond with his sickly cousin?Lin Daiyu, who shares his love of music and poetry. Baoyu, however, is predestined to marry another cousin,?Xue Baochai, but with whom he lacks an emotional connection. The?romantic rivalry?and friendship?among the three characters against the backdrop of the family's declining fortunes form the main story in the novel.

Main character