مفاهیم درس درآمدی بر ادبیات انگلیسی ۱

مفاهیم درس درآمدی بر ادبیات انگلیسی ۱

اسلاید 1: Elements of Theme Chapter IVTabaran Higher Education InstituteFall 2015V.Jamiv.jami@yahoo.com

اسلاید 2: The author’s message about lifeImplicit or recurring ideaMust be inferredExample: NightSilenceMan’s inhumanity to manFaithThe bond between father and sonTheme

اسلاید 3: ThemeThe theme of a piece of fiction is its controlling idea or its central insight. It is the unifying generalization about life stated or implied by the story.Not all stories have significant themes. Theme exists only when the author has seriously attempted to record life accurately or to reveal some truth about it, or when the author has deliberately introduced as a unifying element some concept or theory of life that the story illuminates.

اسلاید 4: While theme is central to a story, it is not the whole purpose. The function of a literary writer is not to state a theme by to vivify it.Theme does not equal “moral”, “lesson”, or “message”.Commercial themes uphold things we would like to believe are true. Literary themes are more true to life.There is no prescribed method for uncovering a theme, however, focusing on the protagonist, the central conflict and other pieces will make the task easier.Theme (cont.)

اسلاید 5: Theme (cont.)Always keep in mind the following principals concerning theme:Theme should be expressible in the form of a statement with a subject and predicate.(pp.192-3) The theme should be stated as a generalization about life. Avoid using the specific names, places,….(p.193)Be careful not to make the generalization larger than is justified by the terms of the story. Avoid terms like, every, all, always, in favor of words such as, some, sometimes, may. .(p.193)Theme is the central and unifying concept of a story. Therefore it accounts for all the major details of the story, is not contradicted by any detail of the story, and cannot rely upon supposed facts. .(p.193)