文学PPT唐春艳

Exceedingly strange and defeedingly strange and deformed chickens symbolize Father’s distorted American dream. P10 • From this point, in the process of realizing the dream, Father suffered from lots of failure and frustration as well as bad heart’s sufferings. As a result, Father’s mind became distorted and deformed.
The Triumph of the Egg
Tang Chunyan
The background information of the story
• Industrial Revolution(agricultural socirty to industrial society,idyllic life) • Westward Movement(transport,city and town,immigrate,industrial center) • American Dream(the belief that everyone in the US has the chance to be successful,rich and happy if they work hard)
Conclusion
• In fact, egg symbolizes destiny and human life. Father tried to change his fate as he tried to master the egg. Unfortunately, he failed only with ridicule by other people and merciless attack by destiny. Everything is the egg’s triumph, as destiny to the family. The "egg" was harmful to the next generation as well as to adult.If they failed to abandon it,the dreadful cycle would continue from generation to generation.
The closing of the restaurant for the night • In the end of the story, Father closed the restaurant for the night and came upstairs and got into bed, which symbolize that Father gave up pursuing his American dream.
Symbolisms in this short story
• • • • • • • The chicken farm The continuous dead small chickens Exceedingly strange and deformed chickens A basket of small live chickens The deformed chickens’ corpses The eggs which performed by Father The closing of the restaurant for the night
Theme • theme:father's complete tragedy
--------the broken American dream
Definition of symbolism
• In terms of literature, symbolism means the use of concrete symbols to represent or hint abstract conception or emotion.
• P11these...removed
The deformed chickens’ corpses
• The deformed chickens’ corpses soaked in the alcohol symbolize Father’s deformed and insane spirit. • P11At any rate...bottle.All during...treasure. • To some degree, both Father’s life and the chickens in alcohol were deformed existence. What deplorable is that Father’s deformity was in his soul—a high level of distortion.
The continuous dead small chickens
• The continuous dead small chickens symbolize the death of Father’s American dream.
• (P5 Small chickens in the farm which ate quantities...died)
The eggs which performed by Father
• The eggs which performed by Father symbolize his dream of getting approval and confirmation from others.
• Thus father’s dream of catching respect and attention was destroyed at last. At any rate, the egg ruined his new impulse in life.
A basket of small live chickens
• A basket of small live chickens which on the wagon when they moved symbolize that Father longed of American dream once again.
The chicken farm
• It hints Father’s American dream inside his heart. • P4They...raising.Here the chicken farm which is related to eggs symbolize Father’s American dream at that time. • Setting up the chicken farm was to realize his American dream as well as long for the wonderful life.