It is a bell。伊莎貝爾

Fiction 4: Anton Chekhov - The Lady with the Dog

temp-: time

For example: temporal contemporary

classical unities 三一律: The classical unities, Aristotelian unities, or three unities are rules for drama derived from a passage in Aristotle's Poetics.

1.unity of action: a play should have one action that it follows, with minimal subplots.

2.unity of time: the action in a play should occur over a period of no more than 24 hours.

3.unity of place: a play should exist in a single physical space and should not attempt to compress geography, nor should the stage represent more than one place.

Civil War→general setting

Civil War was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy, often simply called the South, grew to include eleven states, and although they claimed thirteen states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recognized by a foreign country. The states that remained loyal and did not declare secession were known as the Union or the North. The war had its origin in the fractious issue of slavery, especially the extension of slavery into the western territories.

Civil War 

Georgia (U.S. state)→specific

Georgia is the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. There used to be  many black slaves in Georgia.

planation: a large piece of land (or water) usually in a tropical or semitropical area where one crop is specifically planted for widespread commercial sale and usually tended by resident laborers. The crops grown include fast-growing trees (often conifers), cotton, coffee, tobacco, sugar cane, sisal, oil seeds (e.g. oil palms), rubber trees, and various fruits.

Tea plantation

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."—A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities: a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same period. It follows the lives of several characters through these events. A Tale of Two Cities was published in weekly instalments from April 1859 to November 1859 in Dickens's new literary periodical titled All the Year Round.

A Tale of Two Cities

Poetics(Aristotle): the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.

magni-: big

For example: magnitude, magnificent, magnify

spect-: look

For example: spectacular, spectacle

dict: to say,to tell an word

For example: predict, diction

gothic fiction: Gothic fiction is largely dominated by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature that combines fiction, horror and Romanticism. Its origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, subtitled (in its second edition) "A Gothic Story." The effect of Gothic fiction feeds on a pleasing sort of terror, an extension of Romantic literary pleasures that were relatively new at the time of Walpole's novel. It originated in England in the second half of the 18th century and had much success in the 19th, as witnessed by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

arsenic 砒霜

indent (鍵盤Tab)

indentation

 Spokane: a city in the state of Washington, in the northwestern United States.

para-: 在旁邊；相似

For example: paraphrase