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The aim of the lesson is to teach you to look not only for facts, but for purposes and motives underlying the characters' actions. You'll start learning to sum up the pieces of narrative correlating one's actions and emotions.
1. Read the following words which express feelings and attitudes. Group them into:
a) nouns, adjectives and verbs;
b) words expressing:
/1/ strong dislike and disapproval,
/2/ pity and friendliness,
/3/ powerful emotion.
scorn - scornful touching overmastering
remorse - remorseful moving disturbing
disgust - disgusting monstrous absorbing
loathe - loathsome cordial
despise - despicable vehement
2. a) GIVE THE ENGLISH FOR: causing pity, demanding all your attention, extremely unpleasant, friendly and sincere, to feel no respect for smb., deserving no respect, bitter regret for doing wrong, giving no piece of mind.
b) FIND ALL THE WORDS THAT MAY QUALIFY THESE OBJECTS:
a............... action, a............... desire, a..................... vision, a................ person, a................. smile.
3. Here are some emotional responses of one character to the behaviour of another (mainly to Strickland's behavior). Paraphrase each item and explain (in a sentence) who experienced the emotion and what it was caused by:
to fly into a passion(49) to make up one's mind
to be taken aback (45) to get angry, to lose self-control
to be set on doing smth.(48) to promise to take a matter into court
to threaten proceedings(47) to be willing to forget the past
to let bygones be bygones(52) to make one feel helpless, at a loss
to cut the ground from under one's feet (58) to be surprised or upset
4. Complete the following utterances (which can serve as a kind of rather fragmentary and ill-arranged summary):
a) Torn between the fear of being in the way and the fear of hurting a nice woman's feelings, the narrator decided to call on Mrs. Strickland in the end (because..../ though..../ so as to......).
b) Though Mrs. Strickland still acted as a perfect hostess,..........suggested the domestic calamity
c) Besides being left penniless, Mrs. Strickland was tortured by the assumption that............
d)Having received detailed instructions, the story-teller went to Paris to bring the errant husband back to his forgiving wife. He was quite taken aback by the discovery that............
e)The story-teller worked himself up into a state of moral indignation, but Strickland's cordial agreement with what he said........
f)Upon learning the true reason for Strickland's escape, the young man tried to convince him that............
g) In spite of looking quite ordinary, Strickland impressed the visitor (by his....../ because.........).
5. We rarely narrate events with the only intention of narrating them. More often than not we tell our story in such a way that it reveals smth. about us, or explains smth. about our own behaviour.
How do the characters (the story-teller including) give the story of Strickland's escape? Show how his (her) way of telling the story explains his (her) behaviour.
6. Good dialogue is not transcript of actual talk: there's not enough space. But it should sound like a natural talk. The dialogue answers the unspoken questions of the reader: " What will happen next?", " What does the character want?", " Does the character's interlocutor really know what has happened?".
Choose any dialogue that seems natural and important.
a) Reproduce it.
b) Show that the words themselves are of interest in the given situation because they give you some idea of the human being and his ways
7. Besides direct description and narration the author gives a lot of comments. How does the narrator comment upon his own behavior (as a personage)? What else does he comment upon?
8. Do the chapters prove that " man is incalculable "? Explain.
Lesson 12. Home-reading. SOMERSET MAUGHAM. "THE MOON AND SIXPENCE"
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