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The aim of the lesson is to teach you to anticipate the development of the plot judging by the characteristic features the author gives both to the characters' appearances and to their relationship.
1. PRONUNCIATION DRILL:
a) elaborate embarrassed - embarrassment respectable - respectability
unaffected malicious - malice infatuated (with) - infatuation
incalculable prosperous - prosperity
irrevocable respectable - respectability
b) GIVE THE RIGHT WORD FOR:
worked out with much care, foolishly in love with smb., of good character and social position, succeeding, desire to harm others, made to feel uncomfortable or ashamed, to be too interested in smth. to notice anything else
2. VOCABULARY STUDY. Explain the meaning of the following word combinations and sentences:
a) those dealing with negative prefixes:
- I met her not infrequently
- My decision is irrevocable
- Man is incalculable
- Her smile was unaffected
b) those that may require a very short piece of comment:
- The dining-room was very severe. (p.33)
- He's sometimes in the city. (p.34)
- He was scarcely a credit to a woman who wanted to make herself a position in the world of art and letters. (p.38)
- He was dull judged by a standard that demanded above all things verbal scintillation.
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c). FIND A SUITABLE WORD FOR EACH OF THE ADJECTIVES:
an elaborate businessman, smile, dress, speech, job, situation, epigram, response,
a prosperous career, laugh, make-up, book, task.
an unaffected
an embarrassing
an embarrassed
an absorbing
3. Fiction is not photography. It is not supposed to report the whole truth about anyone. What we are looking for is some phase of human behaviour. It may suggest all the sides of a character the author didn't manage to report. Your observations are merely a starting point.
What traits of Mr. and Mrs. Strickland are reported in the chapters you have read? Say a few words about his(her) reactions to the world surrounding him(her).
4. In these chapters we come across two ways of describing characters: the direct and the indirect ones. The indirect way of description shows the character as seen by some other character.
What is Mrs. Strickland's idea of her husband? What do the others (mainly, Rose Waterford) think of Mrs. and Mr. Strickland?
5. How does the story-teller picture the life of the Strickland family? What's the best word to sum it up? (Ordinary? Commonplace? Untroubled? Outstanding? Respectable? Prosperous? Incalculable? Worthy?...etc.) Is there anything about it that may suggest the forthcoming shock?
6. Maugham often resorts to repetition, though the wording is different each time he tries to bring the idea home to the reader. For instance, he repeats that Charles Strickland seemed a respectable but very ordinary fellow in about a dozen varying phrases.
Find the phrases expressing this idea. What other idea(s) is(are) repeated? Do you find it Maugham's weakness or merit as a writer? Why?
7. As you know, Maugham often resorts to irony. Besides, he often relies on contrast of all kinds: between a character's appearance and behaviour, good and bad qualities; habitual way of life and a sudden change, etc.
Show Maugham's usage of irony and contrast in these chapters.
8. Which phrase(s) could be used as an epigraph in these chapters? Explain why.
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