bai thao luan tieng anh

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Group two:

<b>Nguyen Thi Dao</b>
<b>Do Hong Nhung</b>
<b>Dinh Thi Du</b>

<b>Dao Thi Hoa Sim</b>
<b>Chu Thi Len</b>

<b>Hoang Quynh Trang</b>
<b>Phan Thi Hoa</b>

<b>Bui Thi Giang</b>
<b>Phan Thi Oanh</b>

<b>Pham Thi Kim Oanh</b>

<b>Hoang Thi Hien</b>
<b>Nguyen Thi Tham</b>
<b>Doan Thi Ha</b>

<b>Tran Thi Sen</b>
<b>Ly Anh Ngoc</b>

<b>Nong Phuong Hong</b>
<b>Vi Thi Khanh Tuyet</b>
<b>Nguyen Phuong Linh</b>

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Three parts of our presentation

<b> I. History and literature in the 20</b>

<b>th</b>

<b>century</b>

<b> II. The novelist: Joseph Conrad</b>

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Social

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Social background

The British faced 2 far bigger wars, World

War I (1914-1918) and World War II

(1939-1945) in which she was a major participant.

The wars killed a dozen of millions of people

in Europe and Britain had to suffer heavy

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Social background

• By this time, the United States, also her

former colony had become the strongest

economic and military power of what was

called the capitalist block, and Britain had

to accept her second porition behind the

U.S.

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Characteristics of this age

• The Darwin’s theory about man’s origin

made the society anxious.This leg to

pessimism trend in literature

• Writers shift of focus.

• The explosion in the kind and trend of the

novel.

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• The short story is a novel in miniature .It

has all the elements of a novel but in a

smaller proportion.

• It has a plot

• It has fewer characters

• It has a climax

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Characteristics of the short story

• It has a theme ,which is a truth about life

that the author wants to reveal to the reader.

• Its value lies in the writing techniques

employed by the author to achieve the aim of

a short story

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Joseph Conrad

(1857-1924)

His life
and

His

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<b>Writer’s biography</b>

• Joseph Conrad(1857- 1924) was a

Polish-born British novelist

• His father was a novelist and traslator

English and French literature

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<b>Writer’s biography</b>

• After his father’s death, he lived in

his uncle’s house

• He worked as a sailor and then

captain on British ship

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<b>His contribution to British </b>

<b>literature</b>

• In 1894, Conrad gave up the sea and decided on
a literary career

• In 1895, he produced his first novel in English “
Almayer’s Folly”

• He is ragarded as one of the greatest novelists in
English , though he did not speak the language
fluently

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After somer intinal difficulties with the

language which sometimes appeared in his

early works,Conrad achieved great success

as an English writer with his:

+ Lard Jim (1990)
+ Youth(1902)

+ Typhoon(1903)

+The secret Agent( 1907)
+ Chance(1914)

+ Victory(1915)

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• Honour and loyatly are much praised

virtues in his books

• Conrad’s novels express depression,

self-doubt and pessimism

• His narrative style and anti-heroic

characters have influenced many authors

• Films have been adapted from or inspried

by Conrad’s works.

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His famous works

• Canon of Sherlock Holmes:

– A study in scarlet(1887)

– The adventure of Sherlock Holmes(1892)
– The Case book of Sherlock Holmes(1927)

• Challenger storier:

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Personal experiences

<b>_{Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh}</b>

<b>Scotland.</b>

<b>_{He is now referred to as “Conan Doyle”}</b>

<b>the origin of his compound surname is </b>
<b>uncertain.</b>

<b>_{He was sent to the Roman catholic Jesuit}</b>

<b>prepartory school Hodder place. Stony </b>
<b>hurstat the age nice.</b>

<b>_{In 1875 he left the school, he had rejected}</b>

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_{From 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the}

University of Edinburgh. While studying he also
began writing short stories.

_{Following his term at university he was employed}
as a ship’s doctor on the SS Mayumba.

_{He completed his doctorate in 1885.}

_{In 1885 he married Lousia Hourkins .After his}
wife’s death, he married Jean Elizabeth.

_{He died of a heart attack age 71 on 7 July, 1930}

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His famous works

• Historical novels:

+Micah Clark (1888)

+The white company (1891)

+Sir Nigel (1906)

• Other works:

+The Mystery of Cloomber (1889)

+The film of Girdlestone (1890)

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His contribution to British literature

• He is famous for “Sherlock Holmes”, a

major initiative in the mystery novels.

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