“God knows, …I’m not myself—I’m somebody else—…and I’m changed, and I can’t tell what’s my name, or who I am.”
“God knows, …I’m not myself—I’m somebody else—…and I’m changed, and I can’t tell what’s my name, or who I am.”
Questions:
A.46.Identify the work and the author.
The speaker says he is changed.Do you think he is changed, or the social environment has changed?
What idea does the quoted passage express?
正确答案：Washington Irving:“Rip Van Winkle”
The social environment is changed.
When Rip is back home after a period of 20 years, he findsthateverything has changed.All those old values are gone, and he can hardly feel at home in a changed society.One of the functions that Rip serves in the story is to provide a measuring stick for change.It is through him that Irving drives home the theme that a desire for change,improvement, and progress could subvert stable society.