2013牛津译林版选修8Unit 1“The written world”课件Ⅰ.pptVIP

However，if this is true，why do we still find these classics in bookshops and libraries？They have not disappeared and still have a place in the world.Why else would many films adapted from them be successful？ In 1995，an award-winning film based on Jane Austen’s novel Emma came out.Three years later，in 1998，a modern adaptation of Charles Dickens’s novel Great Expectations appeared in cinemas. Nobody would bother to make these classic novels into films if they had nothing to do with contemporary life. Charles Dickens：England’s greatest writer The novelist Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth，England in 1812.Oliver Twist，David Copperfield and Great Expectations are probably his best-known works. He first published many novels one chapter at a time in newspapers，and some were later performed on stage.For people at that time，his stories were like the soap operas we see on TV today.He died in 1870.His tomb reads，‘By his death，one of England’s greatest writers is lost to the world.’ Great Expectations Great Expectations is set in England in the early 1800s.The author uses Pip, the main character, to tell the story.Having lost his parents, Pip lives with his older sister and her husband Joe.Pip’s sister often abuses him, but Joe is a kind and simple man who would rather die than see any harm come to Pip. Pip, who is seven years old when the story begins, is in a foggy cemetery when a desperate criminal appears and frightens him. Mist is a symbol of danger in Great Expectations.Classic novels often have symbols which add interest, tension or deeper meaning to the text.Readers may not be able to see the danger, so they need a symbol like the mist to make it clearer to them. There is a twist in the plot when a very generous stranger gives Pip a large fortune.As a condition for receiving this fortune, Pip must move to London and begin the life of a gentleman.Pip is eager to begin his new life. Money and education, however, change him, and before long he become