TheTellTaleHeart解读实用教案

1、.第1页/共70页第一页，共71页。I. Pre-reading Tasks第2页/共70页第二页，共71页。1.1 Anticipation GuideDescribe 5 things you expect to find in scary stories. _ _ _ _ _第3页/共70页第三页，共71页。List 5 events, occasions, things that scare you.For each of the above, how did/do you react emotionally to these events, occasions, things?For

2、 each of the 5, how did/do you react physically?Compare/contrast classmates responses.第4页/共70页第四页，共71页。1.2 Anticipation Guide Agree/Disagree Read each of the following & write whether you agree or disagree with each statement.After we read the story, we will come back to these statements & d

3、etermine whether we think the author agrees or disagrees with each statement.第5页/共70页第五页，共71页。Agree/Disagree1.People who are insane always know that they are insane. 2. Sane people sometimes imagine that they hear things. （hallucination）3. If you commit a major crime, sooner or later you will be cau

4、ght.4. When youve done something wrong, its agony to wonder if youll be caught.5. All people share the same fears (i.e., the same things frighten all people).第6页/共70页第六页，共71页。1.2 Lead-in questions Can you tell us the most ghastly news that happened in your live? What will you do if a stranger creep

5、into your chamber ? How can we protect ourselves from being hurt by the criminals or abnormal man ?第7页/共70页第七页，共71页。2.2 Edgar Allan Poe第8页/共70页第八页，共71页。第9页/共70页第九页，共71页。Major works 长篇小说 阿瑟戈登皮姆的故事The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym） 短篇小说(dunpinxioshu) 威廉威尔逊（William Wilson） 人群中的人（The Man of the Crowd）

6、瓶中手稿（Ms. Found in a Bottle） 陷坑与钟摆（The Pit and the Pendulum） 过早埋葬（The Premature Burial） 丽姬亚（Ligeia） 泄密的心（The Tell-Tale Heart） 黑猫（The Black Cat） 莫尔格街凶杀案（The Murders in the Rue Morgue） 金甲虫（The Gold-Bug） 厄榭府的崩塌 (The Fall of the House of Usher）第10页/共70页第十页，共71页。 寓言/随笔 死荫寓言一则（Shadow a Parable） 埃洛斯与沙弥翁的对话（

7、The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion） 莫诺斯与尤拉的对话（The colloquy of Monos and Una） 维萨西孔河之晨（Morning on the Wissahiccon） poems 帖木尔（Tamerlane） 致海伦（To Helen） 以色拉(s l)非（Israfel） 海中之城（The City in the Sea） 致乐园中的一位（To One in Paradise） 罗马大圆形竞技场（The Coliseum） 乌鸦（The Raven） 钟声（The Bells） 安娜贝尔李（Annabel Lee） 第11页/

8、共70页第十一页，共71页。第12页/共70页第十二页，共71页。The Three Major Themes第13页/共70页第十三页，共71页。第14页/共70页第十四页，共71页。 He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. 侦探小说鼻祖(bz)、科幻小说先驱之一、恐怖小说大师、短篇哥特小说巅峰、象征主义先驱之一，唯美主义者。受到过爱伦坡影响的主

9、要人物有：柯南道尔、波德莱尔、斯特芳马拉美、儒勒凡尔纳、罗伯特路易斯斯蒂文森、希区柯克、蒂姆伯顿、江户川乱步等。 第15页/共70页第十五页，共71页。2.3 Gothic Fiction Prominent features of gothic fiction include terror (both psychological and physical), mystery, the supernatural, ghosts, dilapidated houses and Gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death, decay, madnes

10、s (especially mad women), secrets, hereditary curses, persecuted maidens, very old servants, dusty chambers, locked rooms, claustrophobic conditions.第16页/共70页第十六页，共71页。Gothic architecture 第17页/共70页第十七页，共71页。 setting and characters point of view plot Foreshadowing Time-marker Theme Symbolism Tone Ima

11、gery language feature第18页/共70页第十八页，共71页。setting and characters The setting and characters are not the main focus of the horror story. setting: when and where a story takes place The story covers a period of approximately eight days with most of the importanct action occuring each night around midnig

12、ht. The location is the home of an elderly man in which the narrator is his caretaker. anachronism: mistake of placing sth in the wrong historical period第19页/共70页第十九页，共71页。 mood and atomsphere sensory details 第20页/共70页第二十页，共71页。characters characterization : develop a character physical description,

13、inner thoughts, feelings, opinion of other characters protagonist: hero antagonist: adversary foil stereotype round flat dynamic static 第21页/共70页第二十一页，共71页。 This story contains a nameless narrator, an old man, a neighbor and the police who enter near the end of the story. The old man: seemingly harm

14、less elder who has a hideous evil eye that unnerves the narrator. Neighbor: person who hears a shriek coming from the house of the narrator and the old man, then reports it to the police. Three policemen: officers who search the house after a neighbor reports hearing a shriek. 第22页/共70页第二十二页，共71页。 T

15、he narrator: deranged unnamed person who tries to convince the reader that he is sane. The narrators gender is not identified, but Poe probably intended him to be a man. Here is why:第23页/共70页第二十三页，共71页。 Poe generally wrote from a male perspective, often infusing part of himself into his main charact

16、ers. Also, in major short stories in which he identifies the narrator by gender-stories such as The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher-the narrator is male. Finally, the narrator of A Tell-Tale Heart exhibits male characteristics, including:第24页/共70页第二十四页，共71页。 a more pronounced tendency than

17、 females to commit violent acts. Statistics demonstrate overwhelmingly that murder is a male crime. Phiscally strength that would be unusual in a female. The narrator drags the old man onto the floor and pulls the bed on top of him. then tears up floorboards and deposits the body between joists. The

18、 narrator performs a mans chore by bringing four chairs into the old mans bedroom, one for the narrator and three for the policemen. If the narrator were a woman, the policemen probably would have fetched the chairs. But they did not. 第25页/共70页第二十五页，共71页。point of view the horror story adopts first p

19、erson narrator the first person narrator can relate only what he/she sees, feels, knows and thinks. The reader therefore gets to know this character very well and may sympathize and identify with him/her. First-person narratives are often exciting, convincing and engaging. However, they may also be

20、deceptive as the narrator may not always be reliable. 第26页/共70页第二十六页，共71页。 third-person limited omniscient 第27页/共70页第二十七页，共71页。Plot the sequence of events within a story exposition :setting and characters described inciting moment: conflict realized rising actions : buliding up to the climax climax

21、: most exciting point, turning point第28页/共70页第二十八页，共71页。 falling actions : events occur after the climax resolution: conflict overcome denoucement : all loose ends tied up 第29页/共70页第二十九页，共71页。第30页/共70页第三十页，共71页。 complication suspense foreshadowing flashback第31页/共70页第三十一页，共71页。第32页/共70页第三十二页，共71页。For

22、eshadowing lines that give a hint or clue to future events (It doesnt tell the future but hints at it.) Foreshadowing serves to adds to the suspense of the story. example 1 Above all was the sense of hearing acute.I heard many things in hell. (para 1) supposedly, this foreshadows the fate of the nar

23、rator. Although we do not actually find out what happens to him, we know it will be profane. It is also foreshadowing his insane mannerism. 第33页/共70页第三十三页，共71页。 example 2 One of his eyes resembled that of a vultureand thus rid myself of the eye forever. (para 2) This clearly states his intentions, b

24、ut it foreshadows the eye as being the incentive. example 3 the sound of the watch ticking foreshadows the death of the old man. 第34页/共70页第三十四页，共71页。Time-marker Poe talks about time throughout the story: Find quotations to do with time going slowly in the story. Find quotations to do with time going

25、 fast in the story. Discuss why Poe mentions time so much in the story and why he changes the pace of the story from slow to fast. 第35页/共70页第三十五页，共71页。 Time going slowly. And so by degrees-very gradually-I made up my mind to take the life of the old man It tooke me an hour to place my whole head And

26、 this I did for seven long nights A watchs minute hand moves more quickly than did mine Time going fast. It grew quicker and quicker, and louder and louder every instant. In an instant I dragged him to the floor But, ere long, I felt myself getting pale and wished them gone. 第36页/共70页第三十六页，共71页。Them

27、e第37页/共70页第三十七页，共71页。 Theme 1: A human being has a perverse, wicked side-another self-that can goad him into doing evil things that have no apparent motive. The narrator admits in the second paragraph of the story that he committed a senseless crime. However, he does not that his evil deed, murder,

28、was not entirely unprovoked; for the old man he killed had a hideous eye that unnerved him. Unable to look upon it any longer, he decided to kill the old man. 第38页/共70页第三十八页，共71页。 Theme 2: Fear of discovery can bring about discovery. At the end of the story, the narrator begins to crack under the pr

29、essure of a police investigation, hearing the sound of the murdered mans beating heart, and tells the police where he hid the body. Fear of discovery is the principle under which lie detectors work. 第39页/共70页第三十九页，共71页。Theme 3 : The evil within is worse than the evil without. The old man has a hideo

30、us, repulsive eye; outwardly, he is ugly. But, as the narrator admits, he is otherwise a harmless, well-meaning person. The narrator, on the other hand, is inwardly ugly and repulsive, for he plans and executes murder; his soul is more repulsive than the old mans eye. Notre Dame de Paris Quasimodo第4

31、0页/共70页第四十页，共71页。Irony 第41页/共70页第四十一页，共71页。第42页/共70页第四十二页，共71页。第43页/共70页第四十三页，共71页。第44页/共70页第四十四页，共71页。第45页/共70页第四十五页，共71页。第46页/共70页第四十六页，共71页。第47页/共70页第四十七页，共71页。Symbolism第48页/共70页第四十八页，共71页。 symbolism is an important aspect of the story. example 1 : the hearbeat (a major sybol in the story) The na

32、rrator believed that the sound was the beating of the old mans heart, but it was actually his own heartbeat, signifying his fear of being caught, and his guilty conscience tormenting him for killing the old man. example 2 : the eye The vulturous, blue veiled eye clearly represents evil, the evil tha

33、t the narrator saw in the eye that he was trying to eliminate. What is behind the evil eye?第49页/共70页第四十九页，共71页。whats behind the EVIL EYE? The belief in the evil eye dates back to ancient times, and even today, is fairly common in India and the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. References ar

34、e made to it in Jewish, Islamic; Buddist and Hindu faiths. The belief centers around the idea that those who possess the evil eye have the power to harm people or their possessions by merely looking at them. Wherever this belief exists, it is common to assign the evil eye as the cause of unexplainab

35、le illnesses and misfortunes of any kind. 第50页/共70页第五十页，共71页。To protect oneself from the power of the eye, certain measures can be taken. In Muslin areas, the color blue is painted on the shutters of the houses, and found on beads worn by both children and animals. There is also specific hand gestur

36、e named the “Hand of Fatima, ” named after the daughter of Mohammed. This name is also given to an amulet in the shape of hand that is worn around the neck for protection. In some locations, certain phrases, such as as God will or God bless it are uttered to protect the individual from harm. 第51页/共7

37、0页第五十一页，共71页。 In extrem cases, the eye, whether voluntarily or not, must be destroyed. One Slavic folktale relates the story of the father who blined himself for fear of harming his own children with his evil eye. If so, would Poe have had knowledge of this rather strange belief? It is altogether po

38、ssible that he would have, which creates another interesting twist to thsi story. Maybe the narrator who tries to convince us that madness is not really the issue, is telling the truth. Maybe this vile act is necessary in order to destory the power of the old mans evil eye!第52页/共70页第五十二页，共71页。 examp

39、le 3: the dismemberment of the old mans body could symbolize several things, including the coplete breakdown of the narrators mental state or the falling apart of the narrators ability to hide the crime (because he is found out when he frantically exclaims to the police that he did it after hearing

40、the old mans beating heart. )第53页/共70页第五十三页，共71页。 exmple 4 : Pitch is the color of tar, which is deep dark black. The full lines in which this simile occurs read: His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness (for the shutters were close fastened through fear of robbers), and so I knew that

41、 he could not see the opening of the door, and I kept pushing it on steadily, steadily. 第54页/共70页第五十四页，共71页。Tone第55页/共70页第五十五页，共71页。Imagery 第56页/共70页第五十六页，共71页。language sentence pattern figures of speech 第57页/共70页第五十七页，共71页。 Long & Difficult Sentences1.He was still sitting up in the bed listenin

42、g;-just as I have done night after night, hearkening to the deathwatches in the wall.(Para.7)2.because Death ,in approaching him, had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim.(Para.8)第58页/共70页第五十八页，共71页。3.And then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my head, I put in

43、 a dark lantern, all closed, closed, so that no light shone out, and then I thrust in my head.4.Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world slept, it had welled up from my own bosom, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terrors that distracted me.第59页/共70页第五十九页，共71页。III.Post-reading Tasks3.

44、1 Questions 1.Look through the passage. Do you think the narrator is mad or not?2.What is the symbolic meaning of “ the vulture eye”?3.Why does the narrator repeat the sentence here p247para2 line 3 “ It was a dull?第60页/共70页第六十页，共71页。4.Regarding Para 11 and 18 and the line there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as when a watch makes when enveloped in cotton.” (In par. 18 it is in italics) Is it his own heart that the narrator hears? Or Is it the manifestation of his own guilty conscience?5. What is the theme of the passage?第61页/共70页第六十一页，共71页。Answer 1第62页/共