Young─adult fiction：week(4)

•   Finding forester 

                   1. Introduction 
                   2. Impression

                   3. Favorite quote

                   4. Alluding to the old writers

•  獨立宣言 The Declaration of Independence 

             (Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness)

•   重要單字

1. Foreshadowing (n) is an advance sign or warning of what is to come in the future. The author of a mystery novel might use foreshadowing in the early chapter of his book to give readers an inkling of an impending murder.

2. Comic relief usually means a releasing of emotional or other tension resulting from a comic episode interposed in the midst of serious or tragic elements in a drama.

3. Private

  Seclusive(自願孤獨的)

  (Apart from)

4. Select

          Separate

          Exclude

5.shoot fouls 罰球

6. Science

    Conscience

    Out of consciousness

  

•   Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner〈古舟子之歌〉and the major prose work Biographia Literaria.《文學傳記》 

• Greek mythology──Agamemnon and Trojan War

In Greek mythology, Agamemnon was the husband of Clytemnestra as well the father of Iphigenia, Electra, Orestes and Chrysothemis. When Helen, the wife of Menelaus, was abducted by Paris of Troy, Agamemnon commanded the united Greek armed forces in the ensuing Trojan War.

On Agamemnon's return from Troy he was murdered by Clytemnestra (his wife) and Aegisthus (the lover of his wife).

Clytemnestra also killed Cassandra. Her jealousy of Cassandra, and her wrath at the sacrifice of Iphigenia and at Agamemnon's having gone to war over Helen of Troy, are said to have been the motives for her crime.

Agamemnon's son Orestes later avenged his father's murder, with the help or encouragement of his sister Electra, by murdering Aegisthus and Clytemnestra (his own mother), thereby inciting the wrath of the Erinyes (English: the Furies), winged goddesses who tracked down egregiously impious wrongdoers with their hounds' noses and drove them to insanity.

Who is Cassandra?

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Her beauty caused Apollo to grant her the gift of prophecy.

When Cassandra refused Apollo's attempted seduction, he placed a curse on her so that her predictions and those of all her descendants would not be believed. She is a figure both of the epic tradition and of tragedy.

•    罪與罰的概念

•    Phoebus Apollo

•    Pallas Athena