- •Федеральное агентство по образованию
- •Contents
- •Part 1 (Chapters I-IV)
- •Part 2 (Chapters V-VIII)
- •Part 3 (Chapters IX-XII)
- •Part 4 (Chapters XIII-XVI)
- •Part 5 (Chapters XVII-XIX) lexical tasks
- •Part 6 (Chapters XX-XXI) lexical tasks
- •Part 7 (Chapters XXII-XXIII)
- •Part 8 (Chapters XXIV-XXV)
- •Part 9 (Chapters XXVI-XXX) lexical tasks
- •Part 10 (Chapters XXXI-XXXIV)
- •Part 11 (Chapters XXXV-XXXVII)
- •Part 12 (Chapters XXXVIII-xl)
- •Part 13 (Chapters xli-xliii)
- •Part 14 (Chapters xliv-xlvii)
- •Part 15 (Chapters xlviii-l)
- •Part 16 (Chapters li-liv)
- •Part 17 (Chapters lv-lvi)
- •Part 18 (Chapters lvii-lviii)
- •Part 19 (Chapters lix-lxi)
- •Part 20 (Chapters lxii-lxiii)
- •Part 21 (Chapters lxiv-lxvii)
- •Part 22 (Chapters lxviii-lxix)
- •Part 23 (Chapters lxx-lxxii) lexical tasks
- •Part 24 (Chapters lxxiii-lxxv)
- •Part 25 (Chapters lxxiv-lxxviii)
- •Part 26 (Chapters lxix-lxxx) lexical tasks
- •II. Questions and Tasks for Analytical Reading.
- •Учебно-методическое пособие по роману с. Моэма «Разрисованный занавес» (s. W. Maugham «The Painted Veil»)
II. Questions and Tasks for Analytical Reading.
1. How did Mrs. Garstin behave during the period of her last illness? What traits of character did she reveal? What Mrs. Garstin’s personal features did her bedroom preserve?
2. What new outlook of her mother’s personality did Kitty adopt looking at Mrs. Garstin on her deathbed? What did she feel? What differed her dead mother from the other dead persons Kitty had seen before?
3. How did Doris behave at her mother’s deathbed? Did she feel a greater affection for their mother than Kitty? Why didn’t Kitty cry? Why did she regret it? Why didn’t Doris visit her father?
4. How did Mr. Garstin behave when Kitty came into his study? Why was he nervous? Why did he start to bring excuses for his reading a newspaper? Why didn’t he dare to smoke in his daughter’s presence? Why did he start to speak to Kitty about her troubles?
5. What feeling did Mr. Garstin experience after his wife’s death? Why did he try do hide it from his daughter? Why was she able to guess what he felt? Was his inner state somehow corresponding to hers? What feelings did she have for her father? How did she estimate their relations – in the past and in the present?
6. What perspectives did the new position he had accepted and his wife’s death open for Mr. Garstin? Why did he try to convince Kitty that she would be more comfortable living in London when she expressed her wish to join him? What feelings did he experience? Why did he agree to his daughter’s joining him though he didn’t really want her company?
7. Why did Kitty decide to join his father though she realised they were not close at all? Why was it so important for her that he should accept her willingly? What did she do to convince him that she wanted to stay with him not because she needed to be taken care of but because she felt attached to him? Did his attitude to her change somehow in course of their talk? Did she manage to convince him?
8. Why did Kitty want her future child to be a girl? How did Kitty’s personal development tell on her idea how she should bring up her daughter?
9. What was Kitty’s anticipation of the future? How do the philosophical ideas she had learnt from her friends in Mei-tan-fu reunite in her new perception of life?
10. Recall the epigraph to the book. The line is taken from Percy B.Shelly’s poem, the whole text of which is as follows:
Lift not the painted veil which those who live
Call life: though unreal shapes be pictured there
And it but mimic all we would believe
With colours idly spread, - behind, lurk Fear
And Hope, twin Destinies; who ever weave
Their shadows, o’er the chasm, sightless and drear.
The translation of this poem in interpretation of K. Chemen may help you to understand the original lines better:
Не поднимайте расписных завес,
Носящих имя жизни, – с их цветными
Картинами несбыточных чудес;
Страх и Надежда прячутся за ними,
И лишь для нас имеют цвет и вес
Пустые тени, сотканные ими.
Make the analysis of the epigraph in general and in connection with the book’s events.
В пособии использовано следующее издание:
Моэм У.Сомерсет. Разрисованный занавес. Книга для чтения на англ. яз. – М.: «Менеджер», 1997. – 272 с.