厄舍古厦的倒塌

1、The Fall of the House of Usher,Edgar Allan Poe 1839,The house might look something like this (from a photograph by Simon Marsden in his Visions of Poe),Characters,Roderick Usher,Lady Madeline,narrator,plot,The narrator was invited to accompany his ill friend in the House of Usher and he become famil

2、iar with the life of Mr. Usher. At the request of the owner, he helped him in the arrangements for the temporary entombment of Madeline.,During a raining night, the narrator read a story for Usher wanting to relieve his horror. Both of them were frightened by the coincidences of the story and the fa

3、ct.,Usher was frightened to death by seeing his sister walking out of the coffin. At last Madeline died with his brother.,The narrator escaped from the House of Usher and saw it collapsed in the blood-red moon.,小说写的是一个古老的家族中一对孪生兄妹“毁灭”的故事。妹妹病魔缠身，哥哥因思想久被压抑而精神失常。妹妹病重，哥哥邀请挚友前来相伴，挚友应邀而至。后来哥哥把妹妹活埋，可在一个风雨交

4、加的夜晚，妹妹又破棺而出，死在已经晕死过去的哥哥的怀里，挚友仓皇逃出古屋后，古屋在风雨中倒塌在屋旁的池塘里。,(a) Usher dies of shock. _ (b) The door opens and Lady Madeline is standing there._ (c) Usher and the narrator paint and read together. _ (d) The house splits in two and disappears. _ (e) Usher and the narrator place Lady Madeline under the hous

5、e. _ (f) The narrator reads the story of Ethelred to Usher (g) Usher invites the narrator to stay. _,1. Number these events in the correct order.,6_p33,5_p33,2_p28,7_p33,3_p30,_4_p31,1_p25,Write a list of adjectives to describe the characters of Roderick Usher, Lady Madeline and the narrator. Then c

6、ompare your list with that of another student.,Usher: The house made people too gloomy to live in, but he had to live in it as the direct line of descent to carry out his duty Usher loved his sister very much, but Madeline suffered a lot from her malady and was going to die He put his sister living

7、in the tomb to decrease some fear, but on the contrary it caused greater fear and drove him to die. The fear from his heart and the fear caused by the environment around him,The “house of Usher” has two meanings The physical dwelling The family line, or lineage “the entire family lay in the direct line of descent”,The central theme of “The Fall of the House of Usher” is terror that arises from the complexity and multiplicity of forces that shape human destiny. Dreadful, horrifying events result not from s single, uncomplicated circumst