The-Fall-of-the-House-of-Usher解读.ppt

1、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

2、, esp. in France father of modern short story detective story psychoanalytic（精神分析的） criticism,爱伦坡 (1809-1849),Theme 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 Fa

3、ll of the House,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,Characters Doppelganger motif,What is doppelganger? - “Doppelganger”（面貌相似的人，二重身） is from the German for “double-goer”. - Defined as “a second self or

4、 alternate identity, sometimes, but not always, a physical twin.”,The Fall of the House of Usher,Doppelganger motif 二重身,What function does the doppelganger motif usually serve? - The theme of the doppelganger appears regularly in the Gothic literature - To represents the belief that humans are burde

5、ned with a dual nature, a soul forever divided,The Fall of the House of Usher,In Poe, one side of man is reason, or the mind, the other is emotion, or the body Roderick and Madeleine are genetically twins, but psychologically they are also doubles/doppelgangers.,Doppelganger motif 二重身,The Fall of th

6、e House of Usher,Who represents what?,Roderick is all mind in a weak body His mental condition is affected by his environment He represents, to some extent, the life of an isolated artist Paintings Reading Guitar playing,Doppelganger motif 二重身,The Fall of the House of Usher,Who represents what?,All

7、descriptions of Madeline focus on the body Illness has weakened her Roderick and the narrator had screw down the lid of her coffin, but she returns from the tomb to reclaim her twin brother, her “double”,Doppelganger motif 二重身,The Fall of the House of Usher,What is Poes point by creating the doppelg

8、anger motif? - To address the dual and conflicted nature of the Self - Mind and body are at war with each other in each of us. We try to repress one side and live without it. But we cannot achieve a harmonious existence in this way,Doppelganger motif 二重身,The central theme of The Fall of the House of

9、 Usher can be analyzed from various perspectives观点 ,but one thing is in common- the terror that arises from the complexity复杂性 and multiplicity（多样性） of forces that shape human destiny, revealed by Poe through his use of Gothic elements, meaningful symbols and psychologically distorted characters.,The

10、me,To emphasize the contradiction of art and mind . Most artists are weak in their heart and are subject to the breakdown击穿 of mentality. A decaying and rotten heritage is just like an unbearable burden, leads to devastation anyway. It is the intense contradiction between the responsibility to inher

11、it the tradition and awareness of the in heritages decay and perish that drive both Roderick and Madeline crazy and their death, and also the fall of the house of usher. In Poes story , the House of Usher fall to ruin for the reasons of evil , isolation, madness and mystery.,Theme,Word choice : Poe

12、carefully makes every word , every phrase, every sentence in the story contribute to the overall effect , horror, accompanied by oppressing morbidity 发病率 and anxious anticipation of terrifying events. Anaphora(首语重复法）：a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of a clau

13、se or another group of words.,Writing style,For example: Sensation of stupor The deep and dank tarn Feeble and futile struggles Rhythm Besides painting a gloomy picture , the words in the paragraph also express a funereal rhythm-at first through the alliteration of during ,dull, dark and day , and t

14、hen through the rhyming suffixes of oppressively , singularly ,and melancholy .,Alliteration,Increase the authenticity and appeal of works Give readers a sense of mystery Help to express the narrators feelings,Point of viewthe first person,This highly unsettling macabre 可怕的work is recognized as masterpiece of American Gothic literature . The author tries to tell us: 1.Using antitheses对比法 to make the cont