高级英语视听说(第二版)---教师用书及课后答案(4)

What she actually fears is being replaced by Lily and thus loses her chance at the last minute to become a perfect dancer on stage. 21. Why does Nina visit Beth in the hospital again? What does Nina do

with Beth’s stuff? What does she seem to understand? What is it that makes them so much alike? What does Beth say about herself? Why does Nina have such hallucinations in hospital, and later at home?

Feeling devastated by what she sees about Lily and Thomas, Nina believes Lily has already taken her position and suddenly she seems to understand how Beth must have felt while being replaced. She feels close to Beth due to the similar experience of betrayal and desperation.

Nina dashes into the dressing room, picks up all the stuff of Beth and rushes to the hospital in wish to get Beth's forgiveness and asks for advice about what she should do now. However, Beth doesn't feel the same, saying she is not perfect and she is nothing (at all). What Beth says feeds Nina’s despair and finally triggers a mental breakdown, which in turn brings about the most twisted part of Nina's hallucination. She sees Beth stabbing her own face violently, yelling "nothing”, and the face all of a sudden turns into Nina's own face.

Scared by what she sees in the hospital, Nina runs all the way back home, only to be confronted by a ghostly figure and later her mom's monstrous pictures all calling her "sweet girl". Nina is having such hallucination because deep in her heart, she is convinced that her sweet but weak personality as well as her self-denial obsession with perfection should be blamed for her being unable to keep the role of Swan Queen. However, the "let-it-go" journey of transforming herself

into another self is too demanding and scary for Nina to bear. The hallucination reflects on one hand her pain and fear, and on the other hand, her strong desire to liberate her other self.

22. Why are the Black Swan feathers bursting out of Nina’s back? Why

do both of her legs break? Is it a metamorphosis? If so, in what way?

How would you regard this uncaged condition of Nina?

Locking herself in the bedroom, Nina is frightened to feel the pain in her back and then she sees little black feathers growing out of her skin. When her mom is trying to come in and check on her, she breaks her mom's fingers while violently forcing her out of the door. Right after that, Nina sees her legs spontaneously snap in strange directions. Unable to stand steadily, Nina falls down and passes out.

All the series of scary hallucination reveals the fact that Nina is losing control of her mind. And the imagined metamorphosis reflects

a moment of mental transformation in which Nina's once suppressed

other self eventually breaks out of her self-control and rises up to the dominant position in her mind.

23. Why does Nina’s mom try to prevent her from going to the show? What

does it mean when Nina says that the sweet girl is gone?

Nina's mom finds Nina scratching herself all the night so she prevents her from going to the show for fear that she's not well enough for the performance. Nina fights fiercely with her mom and finally breaks out of her grasp. When saying to her mom the sweet girl is gone, Nina means she's no longer the fragile and obedient little girl who has no strength to speak for herself. Instead, she's now fully grown into an independent self who's determined to get whatever she wants. 24. What does Thomas say to Nina in the dressing room right before the

show? What happens when Nina is dancing the White Swan? Why does this occur?

Thomas says to Nina that the only person standing in her way is herself and she should let it go and loose herself on stage. While dancing the White Swan, Nina is back to her usual fearful and unconfident self.

She starts to have hallucination again and sees Lily wearing her costume and flirting with the male dancer and she herself showing up not as the Swan Queen but an ordinary ballerina in the corp. She gets so distracted by the horrible hallucination that she falls off on the floor while the dancer of the Prince is trying to hold her up. 25. Who is sitting in Nina’s dressing room when Nina runs back into the

room, devastated? Why do they start to fight? Who does Nina think that she is fighting with and who does she see lying dead on the floor?

What does this dressing room scene reveal on Nina’s psychological struggle and level of breakthrough?

Running back into the dressing room with tears in eyes, Nina is

surprised to see Lily sitting in her chair, humiliating her, and suggesting she play the part of the Black Swan. Nina throws herself at Lily and the two start to fight on the floor with broken pieces of the mirror scattered around. During the fight, the face of Nina’s opponent shifts into her other self and while her other self is strangling her, crying for a “turn” of domination, we can see the strange physical changes on Nina. With extreme anger, Nina grabs a sharp piece of broken mirror and stabs her opponent with it, but then only to find Lily lying dead on the floor. This dressing room scene reveals to us the very point of a complete mental breakdown on the part of Nina, who by the time is totally possessed by her other self, body and mind.

26. What happens to Nina’s arms while she gets back onto the stage? Does

Nina dance well for the part of the Black Swan? How does she make it?

How does she look while getting off the stage and being hailed by all?

Why does Nina kiss Thomas and in what way does she kiss him?

While getting back onto the stage and dancing to the music as the Black Swan, Nina's arm starts to grow black feathers and with Odile's coda coming to the climax, her arms grow into two big black wings. Her dance of Black Swan is ha …… 此处隐藏：5866字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……