单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,*,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,horror,gothic,castle,thriller,breaking out from a conffin.,Conan Doyle Jules Verne Edogawa Ranpo Hitchcock,柯南,道尔 儒勒,凡尔纳 江户川乱步 希区柯克,Edgar Allan Poe,埃德加,爱伦,坡,爱伦,坡,(1809-1849),Position,famous American poet,short-story writer and critic,controversial and misunderstood in America,but well received in Europe,esp.in France,father of,modern short story,detective story,psychoanalytic精神分析的,criticism,爱伦,坡,(1809-1849),Theme&Style,death,disintegration(separation)of life,horror,negative thoughts of science,traditional,爱伦,坡,(1809-1849),Literary output,A:poem(,The Raven,),B:literary theory,(,The Poetic Principle,),C:,short story,MS.Found in a Bottle,瓶中手稿,The Murders in the Rue Morgue,毛格街血案,The Mystery of Marie Roger,玛丽.罗热疑案,The Tell-Tale Heart,泄密的心,Black Cat,黑猫,The Masque of the Red Death,红色死亡的扮装舞会,The Fall of the House of Usher,厄舍古屋的倒塌,Short Stories,the House of Usher,The Fall of,厄舍古屋的倒塌,The Fall of the House of Usher,Main characters,“I”,-the narrator,Roderick Usher,罗德里克,厄舍,-the boyhood friend of“me”,Madeline Usher,玛德琳厄舍,-Roderick”s twin sister,The tale opens with,the unnamed narrator,arriving at the house of his,boyhood friend,Roderick Usher,having received a letter from him complaining of an,illness,and asking for his help.,The Fall of the House of Usher,Plot summary,In the house,it is revealed that,Rodericks sister,Madeline,is also seriously,ill,.,Roderick later informs the narrator that his sister has died and insists that she be entombed掩埋 for two weeks in a vault地下拱顶室in the house before being permanently buried.The narrator helps Roderick put the body in the tomb.,The Fall of the House of Usher,Plot summary,One night,a storm begins.Roderick comes to the narrators bedroom,nervously,.The narrator attempts to,calm,Roderick down by reading aloud a novel.,As the narrator reads,cracking,sounds,and,shriek,are heard somewhere in the house.,Roderick becomes increasingly,hysterical,and exclaims that the sounds are being made by,his sister,who was in fact,alive,when she was entombed.,The Fall of the House of Usher,Plot summary,The Fall of the House of Usher,The bedroom door is then blown,open,to reveal,Madeline,standing there with,blood,on her robe.She falls on her brother,and they both land on the floor as,corpses,.,The narrator then flees the house and he looks back upon the House of Usher.He watches it break in two,the fragments sinking into the tarn小湖around the house.,Plot summary,The Fall of the House of Usher,Gothic novel elements,Symbols,Characters,The sense of horror and mystery,The Fall of the House of Usher,Gothic novel elements,哥特式小说元素,What is Gothic literary?,Began in 19th century in,England,Popular form in British literary,journals,Imported,into American short story in 19th century,Key ingredient is,sensationalism,The Fall of the House of Usher,Two extracts,1.Its principal feature seemed to be that of an excessive,antiquity,.,The,discoloration,of ages had been great.Minute,fungi,overspread the whole exterior,hanging in a fine tangled,web-work,from the eaves.,2.Perhaps the eye of a scrutinizing observer might have discovered a barely perceptible fissure,which,extending from the roof of the building in front,made its way down the wall in a,zigzag,direction,until it became lost in the,sullen waters of the tarn,.,Gothic novel elements,哥特式小说元素,它看上去极为古旧。由于年月长远，房子的色泽消褪得厉害。古厦的外表生满了苔藓，屋檐上蛛网密布。,认真观看，或许会觉察一道难以辨识的裂缝，从房子正面的屋顶开头，呈锯齿形沿墙而下，始终通入池塘的死水之中。,The Fall of the House of Usher,Gothic novel elements,哥特式小说元素,This novel is a masterpiece of American,gothic novel,.Indeed,as in many of his tales,Poe borrows much from the gothic literary tradition.,Emphasis on setting,Exterior,:castle-like architecture surrounded by decaying landscape,Interior,:house with buried family secrets,Long history of family,tied,to house,Characters are,brooding and secretive,To some extent,the,house,can be regarded as a type of,character,in the story.,The house of,Usher,：,1.The mansion,2.The Usher family,Symbols,of Uhser,The Fall of the House,The fungus-ridden布满菌类的 house:,-Decline of the Usher family,The collapsing house:,-Fall of the Usher family,Symbols,of Uhser,The Fall of the House,The,tarn,-a small,lake,encircling the mansion and reflecting its image:,1.the desire of the Ushers to,isolate,themselves from the outside world,Symbols,of Uhser,The Fall of the House,2.the image of,reality,which Roderick and the narrator perceive;though the water of the tarn reflects details exactly,the image is,upside down,leaving open the possibility that Roderick and the narrator see a,false,reality,Symbols,of Uhser,The Fall of the House,The Fall of the House of Usher,Gothic novel elements,Symbols,Characters,The sense of horr