首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Both versions of the myth — the West as a place of escape from society and the West as a stage on which the moral conflicts conf
Both versions of the myth — the West as a place of escape from society and the West as a stage on which the moral conflicts conf
admin
2017-06-30
72
问题
Both versions of the myth — the West as a place of escape from society and the West as a stage on which the moral conflicts confronting society could be played out — figured prominently in the histories and essays of young Theodore Roosevelt, the paintings and sculptures of artist Frederic Remington, and the short stories and novels of writer Owen Wister. These three young members of the eastern establishment spent much time in the West in the 1880s, and each was intensely affected by the adventure. All three bed felt thwarted by the constraints and enervating influence of the genteel urban world in which they had grown up, and each went West to experience the physical challenges and moral simplicities extolled in the dime novels. When Roosevelt arrived in 1884 at the ranch he had purchased in the Dakota Badlands, he at once bought a leather scout’s uniform, complete with fringed sleeves and leggings.
Each man also found in the West precisely what he was looking for. The frontier that Roosevelt glorified in such books as The Winning of the West(four volumes, 1889-1896), mad that the prolific Remington portrayed in his work, was a stark physical and moral environment that stripped away all social artifice and tested an individual’s true ability and character. Drawing on a popular version of English scientist Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory, which characterized life as a straggle in which only the fittest and hast survived, Roosevelt and Remington exalted the disappearing frontier as the last outpost of an honest and tree social order.
This version of the frontier myth reached its apogee in Own Wister’s enormously popular novels The Virginian(1902), later reincarnated as a 1929 Gary Cooper movie and a 1960s television series. In Wister’s tale the elemental physical and social environment of the Great Plains produces individuals like his unnamed cowboy hero, " the Virginian," an honest, strong, and compassionate man, quick to help the weak and fight the wicked. The Virginian is one of nature’s aristocrats-its-ill-educated and unsophisticated but uptight steady, and deeply moral. The Virginian sums up his own moral code in describing his view of God’s justice; "He plays a square game with us. " For Wister, as for Roosevelt and Remington, the cowboy was the Christian knight on the Plains, indifferent to material gain as he upheld virtue, pursued justice, and attacked evil.
Needless to say, the western myth in all its forms was far removed from the actual reality of the West. Critics delighted in pointing out that no one scene in The Virginian actually showed the hard physical labor of the cattle range. The idealized version of the West also glossed over the darker underside of frontier expansion — the brutalities of Indian warfare, the forced removal of the Indians to reservations, the racist discrimination against Mexican-Americans and blacks, the risks and perils of commercial agriculture and cattle growing, and the boom-and-bust mentality rooted in the selfish exploitation of natural resources.
According to the passage, which of the following statements regarding the myth of the West is NOT true?
选项
A、In one idealized view, the West was a place one can escape from society and its pressures.
B、in one version of the myth, western frontiersman was depicted as a figure deeply immersed in society and its concerto.
C、Some writers portrayed the western wilderness as a simple and innocent society.
D、The extreme hardship of the frontier life is one powerful theme of the legendary West.
答案
D
解析
排除题。根据文中最后一段可知,很明显,各种体裁的西部传奇与西部的实际情况大相径庭。评论家指出,《弗吉尼亚人》中没有一个场景表现出养牛场艰辛的体力劳动。对西部地区理想化的描述也掩盖了向边远地区扩张中阴暗的一面。据此可知,D项(西部地区极艰苦的生活是西部传奇中的一个强大主题)不正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/USFO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Thegreatchariotofsociety,whichforsolonghadrundownthegentleslopeoftradition,nowfounditselfpoweredbyaninterna
Thegreatchariotofsociety,whichforsolonghadrundownthegentleslopeoftradition,nowfounditselfpoweredbyaninterna
Thegreatchariotofsociety,whichforsolonghadrundownthegentleslopeoftradition,nowfounditselfpoweredbyaninterna
Thegreatchariotofsociety,whichforsolonghadrundownthegentleslopeoftradition,nowfounditselfpoweredbyaninterna
Thegreatchariotofsociety,whichforsolonghadrundownthegentleslopeoftradition,nowfounditselfpoweredbyaninterna
Ahundredyearsagoitwasassumedandscientifically"proved"byeconomiststhatthelawsofsocietymakeitnecessarytohave
Insuchachanging,complexsocietyformerlysimplesolutionstoinformationalneedsbecomecomplicated.Manyoflife’sproblems
Insuchachanging,complexsocietyformerlysimplesolutionstoinformationalneedsbecomecomplicated.Manyoflife’sproblems
Insuchachanging,complexsocietyformerlysimplesolutionstoinformationalneedsbecomecomplicated.Manyoflife’sproblems
随机试题
制造容易是模具设计的首要原则,然后再考虑保证冲压件质量和使用寿命。
简述出具无保留意见的审计报告的条件。
最能解释同工不同酬现象的是哪种道德观()
A.H2受体拮抗剂B.黏膜保护剂C.质子泵抑制剂D.抗酸剂E.多巴胺受体拮抗剂奥美拉唑
赵某因绑架罪被甲省A市中级法院判处死刑缓期两年执行,后交付甲省B市监狱执行。死刑缓期执行期间,赵某脱逃至乙省C市实施抢劫被抓获,C市中级法院一审以抢劫罪判处无期徒刑。赵某不服判决,向乙省高级法院上诉。乙省高级法院二审维持一审判决。此案最终经最高法院核准死刑
下列说法错误的是()。
设X~t(n),则下列结论正确的是().
为“评分”表的“分数”字段添加有效性规则:“分数必须大于等于0并且小于等于10”,正确的SQL语句是
A、 B、 C、 C句子是询问为什么没有给卡洛斯分配处理合同的任务的Why疑问句。
AlthoughBeethovencouldsitdownandcomposeeasily,hisreallygreatcompositionsdidnotcomeeasilyatall.Theycosthima
最新回复
(
0
)