求小说Araby的时代背景的英文介绍詹姆斯.乔伊斯的
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The setting of Araby is immensely important; dreary,dark Dublin is the living,symbolic backdrop for the story.[citation needed] The gloomy atmosphere of North Richmond street that actually sets the scene at the start of the story is an anticipation of what lies ahead for the little boy in the bazaar of Araby.The first sentence of the story lets us know that North Richmond street is "blind," and that the Christian Brothers’ School did not so much dismiss students for the day as "set them free." A quick scan of the important adjectives in the first paragraph -- "blind," "quiet," "uninhabited," "detached," "square," "decent," "brown," "imperturbable" -- quickly presents a world that is practical,simple,and unmitigatingly stultifying.As mentioned before,the boys who play in the neighbourhood are able,somehow,to discover some beauty and wander even from these simple surroundings,but to do so they must become connoisseurs of darkness:the lanterns on North Richmond are "feeble," the lanes are "dark" and "muddy," the houses “sombre” in the winter twilight,the "dark dripping gardens" redolent with the smell coming from their “ashpits.” This description of the street and the lives the boys live on it serve as the backdrop that we will use to understand how much more imaginative the Araby market will be:or will not be.[citation needed]
Of course,the story’s greatest irony is just how misnamed the Araby market is.It is certainly not a wondrous evocation of the West’s idealized and romanticized notions of the Middle East.Rather,it is exactly the sort of disappointing market you would expect to appear in the Dublin Joyce describes.It is dark,and mostly empty,and hushed,and more about money than anything else.The market at the end of the story,by more resembling the rest of his life than the image of it he had conjured in his daydreams,forces the narrator to a bleak realization:the stark realities of day-to-day living have little to do with the romantic notions we carry in our heads.[citation needed]
Style
Joyce's writing in Dubliners is neutral; he rarely uses hyperbole or emotive language,relying on simplistic language and close detail to create a realistic setting.This ties the reader's understanding of people to their environments.He does not tell the reader what to think,rather they are left to come to their own conclusions; this is evident when contrasted with the moral judgements displayed by earlier writers such as Charles Dickens.This frequently leads to a lack of traditional dramatic resolution within the stories.
It has been argued (by Hugh Kenner in Joyce's Voices,among others)[2] that Joyce often allows his narrative voice to gravitate towards the voice of a textual character.For example,the opening line of 'The Dead' reads "Lily,the caretaker's daughter,was literally run off her feet." She is not,in this instance,"literally" run off her feet,and neither would Joyce have thought so; rather,the narrative lends itself to a misuse of language typical of the character being described.
Joyce often uses descriptions from the characters' point of view,although he very rarely writes in the first person.This can be seen in Eveline,when Joyce writes,"Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne".Here,Joyce employs an empirical perspective in his description of characters and events; an understanding of characters' personalities is often gained through an analysis of their possessions.The first paragraph of A Painful Case is an example of this style,as well as Joyce's use of global to local description of the character's possessions.Joyce also employs parodies of other writing styles; part of A Painful Case is written as a newspaper story,and part of Grace is written as a sermon.This stylistic motif may also be seen in Ulysses (for example,in the Aeolus episode,which is written in a newspaper style),and is indicative of a sort of blending of narrative with textual circumstances.
The collection as a whole displays an overall plan,beginning with stories of youth and progressing in age to culminate in The Dead.Great emphasis is laid upon the specific geographic details of Dublin,details to which a reader with a knowledge of the area would be able to directly relate.The multiple perspectives presented throughout the collection serve to present a broad view of the social and political contexts of life in Dublin at this time.
类似问题
类似问题1：小说ARABY的英文评论!不用太多字数![英语科目]
Araby is the third of the fifteen stories in Dubliners.This tale of the frustrated quest for beauty in the midst of drabness is both meticulously realistic in its handling of details of Dublin life and the Dublin scene and highly symbolic in that almost every image and incident suggests some particular aspect of the theme.Joyce was drawing on his own childhood recollections,and the uncle in the story is a reminiscence of Joyce's father.But in all the stories in Dubliners dealing with childhood,the child lives not with his parents but with an uncle and aunt-a symbol of that isolation and lack of proper relation between "consubstantial" ("in the flesh") parents and children which is a major theme in Joyce's work.
类似问题2：要一首经典的英文歌,然后有背景故事?希望有类似于big big world 这类的歌曲,有歌词.然后再配上一个英文版的歌曲背景故事!
The Cranberries - Animal Instinct ,
给你视频地址,
被称为十大经典MV之一的歌曲,Mv的内容甚至盖过了歌曲本身.
情节是这样的（开始讲故事了,并非我写的,只作部分修改）：
一位失业的单身母亲.带着两个孩子.
法院判定她没有抚养孩子的经济能力,将她的两个孩子强制关进了儿童收容所.
她对着警察哭叫：“请不要带走我的孩子!……我在两天后就有个面试……我一定能够找到工作,我发誓……”
她像只发疯的母狮,试图留住她的孩子.可是无济于事.穿制服的人拆散了她们.
她在空荡荡的家中流泪.抚摩着孩子的玩具,想念她的孩子们.
她偷偷混入儿童收容所,抢回她的孩子.
从此,就开着一辆随时可能抛锚的破车,与她的两个孩子,四处流浪.
她在饭店里,看着孩子们吃着点心.孩子们很兴奋,吃饱了,很满足地拍着肚皮.她高兴地笑着,比自己吃饱了还高兴.她偷偷地翻出口袋,只有寥寥几个硬币!她很惶恐,没有钱为孩子们付帐……
孩子们很满足.只要跟母亲一起,流浪也是快乐的. 孩子们在路边开心的玩耍.
到了晚上,她和孩子们就在车里睡觉.或在车里一起读书.在车里快乐地打闹.车行在没有方向没有目的的公路上.
在海滩上玩耍,吹着美丽的肥皂泡.
故事情节不算特别,但MV中那个母亲的表演太棒了,很感人.
厚来,孩子们在廉价的旅馆睡觉.她守在门口的台阶上,啃着冷硬的食物.
最后,汽车终于抛锚了.她怀里抱着一个,手里牵着一个,在向过路的卡车打手势请求搭车.卡车远去.
故事终.
类似问题3：“故事背景”的英文我说XXX的故事背景 故事背景英文[英语科目]
background/setting of the story
类似问题4：英语翻译This tale of the frustrated quest for beauty in the midst of drabness is both meticulously realistic in its handling of details of Dublin life and the Dublin scene and highly symbolic in that almost every image and incident suggests some [英语科目]
建议译文如下：
这是一个诉说在枯单乏𠰌的生活中追寻美,却又徒劳无功的故事.它在阐述都柏林的生活和景色时,极尽细致地真实；但又以极富象徵意义的手法,在每个形象,每项事件中都隐喻著故事主题中的某个范畴.
** 建议译文完结 **
至於 "suggests some particular aspect of the theme",我认为应该是指 the theme of this tale （故事的主题）.
而 both 一字,则应该是指该故事既 meticulously reaslistic 同时又 highly symbolic.所以,它的谓语应该是 is.
以上是个人理解,谨供参考.如有错误,希望指正.
类似问题5：求英语国家有关的文化背景故事（要英语的）[英语科目]
The Great Race
From:American Indian Myths and Legends
Edited by Richerd Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz.
New York:Pantheon,1984,page 390-392
When the Great Mystery created the earth and all living things upon it,the people and animals lived in peace.None,neither people nor animals,ate flesh.Now it happened in the course of many seasons that the buffalo began to think that they were the most powerful beings in the world.They came to believe that this gave them the right to kill and eat other animals,and people as well.Then the people said:"This isn't fair; we humans and the buffalo were created equal.But if it happens that one or the other must be the most powerful,then it should be us!"
The buffalo said,"Let's get this settled.We should have a contest to see whether you eat us or we eat you.How about a race?"
The people said:"But in a race,you have an unfair advantage; two legs can't compete with four.Suppose we let the birds race for us.They have wings,you have four legs,that makes it more even."
The buffalo said:"Agreed.We'll choose our fastest runner,and you choose some birds to race for you."
Then some of the other animals said:"We should have a chance to race,too."
"That's right,it's only fair," said the buffalo and the people.So,all living things went to a place at the egde of the Black Hills called Buffalo Gap.There they lined up for the race.
As their contestant,the buffalo had chosen Running Slim Buffalo Woman,a young cow who was the fastest of all animals and who had never been beaten in a footrace.
To race for then the human beings had chosen four birds:a hummingbird,a meadowlark,a hawk,and a magpie.
In those early days of the world,the birds and animals had no color.Now for the race they all painted themselves carefully,each creature according to its own medicine,its own vision.For example,the skunk painted a white stripe on its back,the black tailed deer painted its tail black,the antelope took some red-brown earth and,mixing it with water,painted its whole hide.As all creatures painted themselves for this great race,so they have looked ever since.
Then the signal to race was given,and the crowd of runners started toward a hill which was the halfway point.Running Slim took off in a flash,with the buffalo cheering her on.For a while Hummingbird flew along with her,but soon he fell back exhausted and Meadowlark took over.Still,Running Slim kept far ahead,leading the great mass of racers with their thundering hooves.Though they had already covered a great distance,Running Slim was fresh.
By the time Running Slim reached the halfway point,she and the lark were far ahead of the field.At the hill the umpires were shouting:"Now turn and race back to the starting point,to Buffalo Gap!"
The lark heard this and thought:"I can't make it that far." He dropped out of the race,but already Hawk was coming on strongly.
Now Hawk,acknowledged to be the fastest of the birds,suddenly shot ahead of Running Slim.The people shouted for joy -- but not for long.Hawk's endurance did not match his swiftness,and the sudden spurt exhausted him.
Again Running Slim came on,thundering ahead.With her deep chest,powerful legs,and great lungs,it seemed that she could keep up the pace forever.Then far in the rear a little black and white dot could be seen,coming up,flying hard.This was Magpie,a slow bird but strong-hearted and persevering.The buffalo herd paid no attention to Magpie; they were cheering their runner while the people watched silently.
Some of the racers were running so hard now that blood spurted from their mouths and nostrils.It colored the earth beneathwhich has ever remained red along the trail where the race was run.
At last Buffalo Gap came into sight.Powerful and confident as she was,Running Slim herself was beginning to slow down,though it was hardly noticeable.Even she was not aware of it,but ran along feeling sure that she would win.Then very slowly,imperceptibly,Magpie began to gain on her.
Buffalo Gap was closer now,though still a good way off,thought Slim Running.She could feel herself tiring.The buffalo were grunting and stomping,trying to encourage her.Magpie was still behind,but coming along steadily.
Now Buffalo Gap was near.Running Slim Buffalo Woman was really tired,but she gathered all her strength for the last spurt,thundering along,her heart close to bursting.By then,however,Magpie had come up even with her.
Both the buffalo and the people were cheering their racers on,calling out to them,yelling and stomping.So the two were speeding up,putting the very last of their strength into it -- Running Slim Buffalo Woman and Magpie.Thus they neared the sticks,painted red,planted in the earth,which marked the finishing line.It was not until they were a hand-bredth away from those sticks,at the last moment,that Magpie finally shot ahead.The people gave a great shout of happiness,and both racers fell exhausted.
So the humans had won and the buffalo had lost.And ever since the people have respected the magpie,never hunting it or eating it.So the people became more powerful than the buffalo and all the other animals,and from that time on,people have hunted the buffalo for their food.
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THE LEGEND OF THE DREAM CATCHER
Long ago when the world was young an old Lakota spiritual leader was on a high mountain and had a vision.In this vision,Iktomi,the great trickster and teacher of wisdom,appeared in the form of a spider.Iktomi the spider picked up the elder's willow hoop which had feathers,horsehair,beads and offerings on it,and began to spin a web.He spoke to the elder about the cycles of life; how we begin our lives as infants,move on through childhood and onto adulthood.Finally,we go to the old age where we must be taken care of as infants,completing the cycle."But," Iktomi said as he continued to spin his web,"in each time of life there are many forces; some good and some bad.If you listen to the good forces,they will steer you in the right direction.But,if you listen to the bad forces,they'll steer you in the wrong direction,and may hurt you.So these forces can help or can interfere with the harmony of Nature."
While the spider spoke,he continued to weave his web.When Iktomi finished speaking,he gave the elder the web and said,"the web is a perfect circle with a hole in the center.Use the web to help your people reach their goals,make good use of their ideas,dreams and visions.If you believe in the Great Spirit,the web will catch your good ideas and the bad ones will go through the hole."
The elder passed on his vision to the people,and now many Indian people hang a dream catcher above their bed to sift their dreams and visions.The good is captured in the web of life and carried with the people,but the evil in their dreams drops through the hole in the center of the web and are no longer a part of their lives.