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1、Contents,I.About the author,II.His Masterpieces,III.,The Woman in White,IV.Character List,V.Plot in the story,VI.Themes,Wilkie Collins,1.Known as the Father of,modern detective novel,writer,2.,Born into an artists family,in London.,3.Educated privately and,had a gift for story-telling.,4.A close fri
2、end of Charles,Dickens,who had a great,influence on him.,Wilkie Collins,1.He wrote 27 novels,more than 50 short stories,and at least 15 plays.,2.His detective stories are famous for the,unexpected suspense.,4.His novel,The Moonstone,is considered as the,first detective story in the history of Englan
3、d.,The Woman in White,as his best novel.,4.Almost all his books are in print,he is studied,widely,and new films and TV plays have been,made.,About His Works,Collins Masterpieces,Characters List,1.,Walter Hartright,2.,Frederick Fairlie,3.,Laura Fairlie,4.,Marian Halcombe,5.,Anne Catherick,6.,Mrs Cath
4、erick,7.,Sir Percival Glyde,8.,Count Fosco,Walter Hartright,?,A,?,aged,twenty-eight,years,a,poor,artist,teacher,who,has,been,employed,to,teach,art,to,the,nieces,of,Frederick,Fairlie,in,the,north,of,England.He falls in love with Laura Fairlie.,Frederick Fairlie,?,A,?,He,is,Lauras,uncle,and,the,owner,
5、of,Limmeridge,House.,He,is,about,sixty,with,a,delicate,nervous,voice.,He,is,always,complaining,about,the,effect,of,noise,on,his,nerves.His health is his only interest.,Laura&Marian,?,A,?,They,are,half-sisters.,They,had,different,fathers.,Marians,was,poor,and,Lauras,rich.,Marian,Halcombe,has,thick,bl
6、ack,hair,dark,shing eyes and an intelligent expression.Laura,Fairlie,is,a,good,happy,and,beautiful,young,woman,who,looks,very,similar,to,Anne,Catherick.She is a good pianist.,Anne Catherick,?,She is also called the Woman in White,because she dressed in white clothes in,memory of Lauras mother,who sh
7、e knew in,Limmeridge.She has escaped from an aslyum;,she says that Sir Percival put her there.,Sir Percival Glyde,?,He is Lauras fiance and then husband.He is a,forty-five-year-old baronet with a large house,and a lot of land in the south of England.He,has a cough and a mark on the back of his,hand.
8、There is some connection between him,and Anne Catherick.,Mrs Catherick,?,Annes strange and unsympathetic mother,somehow in league with Sir Percival Glyde.,Professor Pesca,?,A teacher of Italian,and a good friend of,Hartright.Finds him the Limmeridge job,and,proves Foscos unexpected nemesis.,Count Fo
9、sco,?,Sir Percivals friend.A grossly obese Italian,with a mysterious past.Eccentric,urbane,intelligent and menacing.Greatly admires,Marian for her intellect.,?,Lauras aunt,once a giddy girl but now,humourless,cold and in thrall to her husband,and his schemes.,Countess Fosco,Summary of the Plot,Summa
10、ry(1),?,Poor art master Walter Hartright encounters a,mysterious woman dressed all in white on a,moonlit road in Hampstead.She is in a state of,confusion and distress,and Hartright helps her,to find her way back to London.In return,she,warns him against a certain baronet,Immediately after they part,
11、Hartright learns,that she may have escaped from an asylum.,?,He goes to Cumberland to take up a position as art tutor,at Limmeridge House to two young women:Marian,Halcombe and her wealthy half-sister,Laura Fairlie.,?,He finds to his amazement that the story of the woman,in white,Anne Catherick,may
12、be entangled with the,lives of the two sisters.,?,Walter and Laura fall rapidly in love but she is soon to,be married,by her late fathers wish,to Sir Percival,Glyde,a baronet.Hartright resigns and travels abroad,to forget.,Summary(2),?,Marian moves in with Laura and her husband.,The marriage is unha
13、ppy,and Marian soon,realises that Sir Percival is attempting to gain,control of Lauras fortune with the help of his,Italian friend Count Fosco,a menacing yet,charming and intelligent villain with an,enigmatic past.,Summary(3),?,She also meets the mysterious Anne Catherick,who,hates and fears Sir Per
14、cival,blaming him for sending,her to the asylum to keep her from revealing his,secret.,?,Marian tries to untangle the mystery and protect her,sister from Sir Percival and Fosco,but falls ill.,?,When she recovers she is told first that Laura has,gone to London,and then that she has died there.,?,Anne
15、 Catherick,it appears,has been recaptured and,is back at the asylum.,Summary(4),?,Walter returns to England and visits,Limmeridge to mourn at Lauras grave,only to,encounter Marian and a living Laura at the,graveside.,?,Lauras death has been faked:Anne Catherick,who greatly resembles Laura,died in Lo
16、ndon,and was buried as Laura.Lauras property has,all passed to Sir Percival.,Summary(5),?,Laura herself was sent to the asylum as Anne,where her protestations were dismissed as,proof of insanity,and the horrific experiece,almost destroyed her before Marian discovered,the substitution and bribed a me
17、mber of staff,to help her escape.,Summary(6),?,The rest of the novel traces the attempts of,Marian and Walter to safeguard Laura from,capture and return to the asylum,to nurse her,back to health,to expose the plot and to force,Lauras family and friends to acknowledge her,identity.,Summary(7),?,In th
18、e process Walter meets Annes strange,mother and uncovers Sir Percivals dark secret,-his parents were not legally married,so he is,not the rightful owner of his property or title.,?,Walter tries to obtain church registers as,evidence,in order to blackmail Sir Percival,into confessing,but the baronet
19、starts a fire to,destroy them and burns to death in the ensuing,blaze.,Summary(8),?,With his death there is some hope of proving,the plot and regaining Lauras fortune,but,Walter does fulfil his vow that Laura-now,Mrs Hartright-should be publicly,acknowledged at Limmeridge as herself.,?,Nor is there
20、any further threat from Fosco,who is murdered by an Italian secret society he,has betrayed,and his body is thrown into the,river.,Summary(9),Themes of,The Woman in White,?,love and marriage,?,greed,and,murder,?,madness and mistaken identity,?,respectability and social class,Styles,?,multiple first p
21、erson,?,multiple viewpoints,?,drawbacks,(1),The Moonstone is a huge yellow diamond that was once,part of a statue of the moon god in India.,(2),Before her birthday party,Rachels friend Franklin painted,a door in her sitting room with flowers and birds.,Some honored guests,relatives and friends,arriv
22、ed at the Verinders before the party began.,(3),(4),All the guests are astonished by its size and rare beauty.,But from the moment Rachel fastens it to her dress,things start going wrong.,Some Indians come to the house offering to entertain the,guests,but they are not very skilled and behave strangely.,(5),(6),Rachels mother hires the famous detective,Sergeant Cuff to investigate the theft.,Rachel,Franklin,Godfrey,Dr Candy,Rosanna,Sergeant Cuff,Indian entertainers,