Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,Unit 14:MS.Found in a Bottle,Edgar Allan Poe,(,1809-1849,),Teaching Objectives:,Know something about the,life and major works,of Edgar Allen Poe;,Understand the definition of,Gothic Novel;,Know something about,Poes theory on short story,and his,writing style,;,Learn to analyze Ms Found in a Bottle(theme,style and character portrayal).,Edgar Allan Poe,A.,novelist,poet,critic;,B.,good at writing,Gothic,and detective fiction,father of western detective stories;,C.,father of,psychoanalytic criticism,;,I.Life,D.His aesthetics has influenced such French symbolists and advocates for“art for arts sake as Baudelaire;,E.His writings have influenced such writers as,H.G.Wells,T.S.Eliot,and,William Faulkner,.,II.Major Works:,Poetry:,1 The Raven (1844)?乌鸦?,2 Annabel Lee?安娜贝尔丽?,3 The Sleeper?睡美人?,4 A Dream Within a Dream?梦中梦?,5 Israfel?伊斯拉菲尔?,6 The Bells?钟?,7 Sonnet To Science?十四行诗-致科学?,8 To Helen?献给海伦?,9 The City in the Sea?海中的城市?,Short stories,1 MS.Found in a Bottle(1833)?瓶中手稿?,2 Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque (1839)?荒唐奇异的故事?,3 The Murders in the Rue Morgue(1841)?毛格街血案?,4 The Fall of the House of Usher?厄舍古屋的倒塌?,5 The Cask of Amontillado?一桶白葡萄酒?,6 Ligeia?丽姬娅?,7 The Purloined Letter?窃信案?,8 The Man of the Crowd?人群中的人?,9 The Tell-Tale Heart?泄密的心?,10 William Wilson?威廉.威尔逊?,11 Black Cat?黑猫?,12 The Imp of the Perverse?变态的小鬼?,13 The Gold Bug?金甲虫?,14 The Mystery of Marie Roger?玛丽.罗热疑案?,15 The Masque of the Red Death?红色死亡的化装舞会?,IV.Writing Style:,Poes style is,traditional,.It is much,too rational,too ordinary,to reflect the peculiarity of his theme.He is good at,generalizing,.He is,not easy to read,.He lays stress on,brevity,and,imagination,.,style and,genre,horror fiction,detective fiction,science fictionMs.found in a bottle,genre,horror,Gothic,dark romanticism,most recurring themes,questions of death,premature burial,pseudosciences,the reanimation of the dead,III.Gothic Novel,The Gothic novel,or“Gothic romance flourished through the early nineteenth century.Authors of such novels set their stories in the medieval period,often in a gloomy castle,and made plentiful use of ghosts,mysterious disappearances,and other sensational and supernatural occurrences;their principal aim was to evoke chilling terror by exploiting mystery,cruelty,and a variety of horrors.,The term“gothic has also been extended to denote a type of fiction that,a.develops an atmosphere of gloom or,terror,b.represents events which are mysterious,horrible,or extremely violent,and,c.often deals with abnormal psychological,states.,summary,MS.Found in a Bottle is an adventure short story by Edgar Allan Poe that first appeared in the May 1833 edition of,Baltimore Saturday Visiter,.The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances.As he nears his own disastrous death while his ship drives ever southward,he writes an MS,or manuscript,telling of his adventures which he casts into the sea.Some critics believe the story was meant as a satire of typical sea tales.,summary,.,An unnamed narrator,sail as a passenger aboard a cargo ship from Batavia.,T,he ship i,s,hit by a storm that capsizes the ship and sends everyone except the narrator and an old Swede overboard.,T,he narrators ship eventually collides with a gigantic black galleon,T,he narrator finds,those,elderly crewmen,on the galleon very strange,;he steals writing materials from the captains cabin to keep a journal(the manuscript of the title)which he resolves to cast into the sea,At the end，,The ship s,a,nk into the sea,and the article abruptly ends here.,Technique,1FOR horror,1.isolated and horrifying setting,2.color techniques,3.metaphpor and personification,4.mystery，ominous feelingsrepetition of them also,1.,different tense,2.,contrast,FOR,sense of reality and tension,Technique,isolated setting：no one to talk with,the only companion didnt know English.,alone on the sea,“Incomprehensible men!Wrapped up in meditations of a kind which I cannot divine,they pass me by unnoticed.这些不可思议的人哟！沉溺于一种我无法窥视的冥想之中，经过我身边却对我视而不见。,Videos,1dusky-red moon,2a dull,sullen glare of red light which streamed down the sides of the vast chasm where we lay,3Sickly yellow luster sun,4black sweltering desert of ebony黑檀,5the swelling of the black stupendous seas became more dismally appalling,color techniques,stylistic devices:metaphors and personification,To increase the effect and make the language more expressive,the wind,every breath of which died away,the colossal waters that,rear their heads like demons of the deep,.,billows are just like,demons confined to simple threats,and forbidden to destroy,the ice is presented as,a gigantic amphitheater,and looks,like the walls of the universe,.,repetition of,mystery,，ominous feelings,I went belownot without a f