symbolism象征主义PPT课件.ppt
- 【下载声明】
1. 本站全部试题类文档,若标题没写含答案,则无答案;标题注明含答案的文档,主观题也可能无答案。请谨慎下单,一旦售出,不予退换。
2. 本站全部PPT文档均不含视频和音频,PPT中出现的音频或视频标识(或文字)仅表示流程,实际无音频或视频文件。请谨慎下单,一旦售出,不予退换。
3. 本页资料《symbolism象征主义PPT课件.ppt》由用户(三亚风情)主动上传,其收益全归该用户。163文库仅提供信息存储空间,仅对该用户上传内容的表现方式做保护处理,对上传内容本身不做任何修改或编辑。 若此文所含内容侵犯了您的版权或隐私,请立即通知163文库(点击联系客服),我们立即给予删除!
4. 请根据预览情况,自愿下载本文。本站不保证下载资源的准确性、安全性和完整性, 同时也不承担用户因使用这些下载资源对自己和他人造成任何形式的伤害或损失。
5. 本站所有资源如无特殊说明,都需要本地电脑安装OFFICE2007及以上版本和PDF阅读器,压缩文件请下载最新的WinRAR软件解压。
- 配套讲稿:
如PPT文件的首页显示word图标,表示该PPT已包含配套word讲稿。双击word图标可打开word文档。
- 特殊限制:
部分文档作品中含有的国旗、国徽等图片,仅作为作品整体效果示例展示,禁止商用。设计者仅对作品中独创性部分享有著作权。
- 关 键 词:
- symbolism 象征主义 PPT 课件
- 资源描述:
-
1、1symbolism2The introductionSymbolism is the use of symbols to represent things such as ideas and emotions. Symbolism is sometimes used to refer specifically to totemic symbols that stand on their own, as opposed to linguistic symbols.In psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung envisioned symbols
2、as being not of the mind, but rather the minds capacity to hold information.The mind uses symbols to form free association, organization, and connections between symbols. Jung and Freud diverged on the issue of common cognitive symbol systems and whether they exist within the individual mind or amon
3、g other minds, whether cognitive symbolism was innate or defined by the environment.Symbolism is important to religion. Some religious oracles divine by interpreting symbols. Max Weber described religion as a system of sacred religious symbolism.3The historical meaningThis history of a symbol is one
4、 of many factors in determining a particular symbols apparent meaning. Old symbols become reinterpreted, due perhaps to environmental changes. Consequently, symbols with emotive power carry problems analogous to false etymologies.For example, the Irish and Scottish American elements of design in the
5、 Rebel Flag of the American South predate the American Civil War. An early variant of the crossed bars can be seen on the Scottish Flag. Following the American Civil War, the KKK, founded in part by Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, became notorious in the American South for conducting rac
6、ially-motivated attacks. Its members, themselves Confederate veterans, associated themselves with the Confederate flag. This led to a subsequent dispute over whether or not the flag has racist connotations. Another example is the superficial resemblance between the Christian cross, an execution devi
7、ce, and the Ancient Egyptian Ankh, signifying life. The cross derives from the Roman Empires use of large wooden crosses to crucify alleged criminals.45symbolism in literatureJust as characterization and dialogue and plot work on the surface to move the story along, symbolism works under the surface
8、 to tie the storys external action to the theme. Early in the development of the fictional narrative, symbolism was often produced through allegory, giving the literal event and its allegorical counterpart a one-to-one correspondence.In John Bunyans Pilgrims Progress, for example, everything and eve
9、ryone stands for something else. The protagonist Christian, to no ones surprise, stands for every Christian reader; his goal, the Celestial City, stands for Heaven; the places through which he passes on his way - Lucre Hill, Vanity Fair, and the like - stand for the temptations Bunyan felt that Chri
10、stian readers were likely to encounter on their journey to salvation. Even the names of Christians fellow travelers - Mr. Feeble-mind, Great-heart, and the like - represent not individual characters but states of being.Allegory is undoubtedly the simplest way of fleshing out a theme, but it is also
11、the least emotionally satisfying because it makes things a little too easy on the reader. We feel that we are being lectured to; its almost as if the author is stopping every sentence or two to say, Now pay special attention to this, because if you dont remember it, you wont get the point. Essential
12、ly, allegory insults our intelligence.6Allegory also, however, limits our perceptions. The best works of literature are those in which an element of mystery remains - those which lend themselves to a variety of interpretations. Strict allegory seldom does this, which is why religious allegory is gen
13、erally less satisfying than the scriptural story on which it was based.To take allegory to the next higher level, we arrive at something that for want of a better term can be called symbolism. At this level, there is still a form of correspondence, and yet it is not so one-to-one, and certainly not
14、so blatant. Whereas allegory operates very consciously, symbolism operates on the level of the unconscious. This does not mean that the author himself is unconscious of the process of creating symbolism - merely that we, as readers, accept its input without really understanding how it works.In Shake
15、speares Hamlet, for example, we discover that Hamlet is fascinated with actors and acting. Upon reflection, an astute reader realizes that this is because Hamlets whole life has become unreal; he is being haunted by the ghost of his father, his father turns out to have been murdered by his uncle, hi
16、s mother has married his fathers murderer. The motif of the actors is a symbol for the unreality of Hamlets life.7Similarly, near the beginning of F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel The Great Gatsby, there is the famous scene of the Valley of Ashes where Tom Buchanans mistress Myrtle lives. Although Fitzger
17、ald never says so, it is clear that the Valley of Ashes represents the real state of Toms soul; although to the outside world his residence is in a mansion on the beautiful bay at East Egg, where everything is opulent and expensive and tasteful, the inwardly rotten, spiritually desiccated Tom really
18、 lives where his heart does, in a grim ashen valley presided over by a billboard decorated with a huge pair of bespectacled eyes. The eyes represent God, who sees Toms actions and knows the interior of his heart, but ominously seems powerless to intervene.Other famous symbols are Melvilles great whi
19、te whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno; and Coleridges albatross in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. All these concrete objects or places carry within them a wide range of associations that stand for something so ineffable it would spoil the magic to explain it. Sym
20、bolism, therefore, is an integral component of fiction, because it enriches the narrative by pulling its message down to the level of our unconscious and anchoring it there.8Symbolism in literature was appeared in mid 19th century in France. Symbols are things that have a much deeper meaning than wh
21、at it appears to be. Symbolism is the use of an item that causes the reader to think about what it stands for. The meaning it holds depends on the individual, it could mean different things to different people. The purpose of symbolists is to express the highly complex feelings that grew out during
22、the contact with the world.There are two types of symbols. A general symbol is universal in its meaning. For instance, a rose often is not only a flower, but also a general symbol for love. A specific symbol acquires a specific meaning on how it relates to the content. Some titles of novels are alwa
23、ys specific symbols. Symbolism has two characteristics. One is suggestion, it means the word has a deep meaning and it stands for something or a kind of people .The other is ambiguity. Ambiguity means that the meaning of the word is uncertain and it has different meaning if you look them in differen
24、t level. 9We all know that “The tell-tale heart” has a deep meaning instead of only a horror story. The writer Allan Poe is a precursor of symbolists. Symbolism is an important aspect of the story. The major symbol is the heartbeat. The narrator believed that the sound was the beating of the old man
展开阅读全文