Un anglophone pourrait-il jetter un oeil à ces paragraphes, et me dire s'il y possible de les rendre plus "Brittish" dans la tounure comme dans le vocabulaire?
(C'est pour un travail scoaire non évalué, mais je trouve (et le prof aussi) qu'il serait utile de rendre ça plus anglais...)
Merci beaucoup,
Damiro
Exercice 4
The narrator of Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ combines cunning with his obvious insanity, which is illustrated by his feeling of being haunted by the thought of the eye and his subtle plan to enter the room in order to get rid of the eye.
In ‘The Story of an Hour’ Kate Chopin is very interested in the physiological dimension of the characters, as it is clearly shown when she, in the room, begins to dream of what her life is going to be now her husband is dead.
Despite its overall tenderness David Kinloch’s poem ‘Bed’ contains violent and aggressive imagery, which is clearly illustrated when she says: “I elbow him away intent on sleep but, suddenly unpegged by a gust of dreams, we roll together in the hot hole of his mum's old bed, dribbling on the pillows.”
Dylan Thomas seems to have an ambiguous, perhaps even desperate, relationship with his dying father in 'Do not go Gentle into that Good Night'. That is illustrated in the way he says to his father to fight against death. In one had, he says even “wild men who have caught the sun in flight”, id est, who did accomplish all what they wanted to, fight against death. He tries to find all the existing arguments to persuade his father to fight. But on the other hand, he knows that whatever he do say to his father, this one will not be able to go against destiny (that’s why he prays).
Ted Hughes ‘The Thought-Fox’ uses strongly contrasted colour imagery. It is show by the closing-up description he gives of a fox delicately and cunningly approaching. Moreover, this ‘tracking in’ feeling is highlighted by an increasing light-effect as the fox was coming closer.
In short, as the Fox comes, the atmosphere grows lighter.
Exercice 2
I think that Laura is more sensitive than the rest of her family. In fact she is interested in the workmen who come to put up the marquee, and She is interested in other lives. She wants the party to be a success. But She is very disturbed when she hears about the accident, and wants to cancel the party. She notices that her attitude is different to that of her family as she can enter into the lives of others and feel what they are feeling. Laura is kind-hearted and has to go down where the poor people live.
Exercice 3
At first I would say that "The Garden Party" traces the psychological and moral growth of Laura Sheridan.
I think that Laura is more sensitive than the rest of her family and that she is an idealistic and impressionable young person who struggles with her own family. She is interested in the workmen who come to put up the marquee and so she looks them in admiration because they carry their tools. One of them is ‘pale and tired’ and Laura wonders what he is thinking. She is interested in other lives. She wants the party to be a success and doesn’t want anything to disturb the party. The weather is windless, warm, the sky without a cloud. She is very disturbed when she hears about the accident and the death of a working-class labourer who lives down the hill, and wants to cancel the party because of that. She notices that her attitude is different from the one of her family: she awakes to a more mature perception of reality thanks to her contacts with poverty and death at the carter's cottage. She can enter into the lives of others and feel what they are feeling. It is a pleasure to be with happy people, but Laura needs to go down where the poor people live.