TheFalloftheHouseofUsher教学课件.ppt

The Fall of the House of Usher;Genre;What is Gothic literary（哥特文学）? ;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 （沉思的）and secretive（秘密的）;Edger Allen Poe;;For a time, Poe lived with his father’s sister and his cousin, Virginia. After getting a secure position and a steady income, he then married young Virginia. During the time, Poe showed his true talents as an editor, a poet, a literary critic, and a writer of fiction. Possibly for the dissatisfaction with the low salary, he quit suddenly in 1837 and set out to try his luck in New York and Philadelphia with his family. ;Over the later several years, Poe suffered a hard time. Although his dream of starting his own mangazine did not come true, he managed to write some of his most famous stories. He was controversial and misunderstood in America, but well received in Europe, esp. in France, however, that was of little benefit to him. His wife died in 1847. Two years later, he died when he was going to marry a France widow, while the cause of his death was a final mystery.;Now …let’s go into ;Characters;;;;;The Narrator---Usher’s childhood friend ;Roderick Usher---the house’s owner;;Madeline-- Roderick Ushers sister;Theme ;To emphasize the contradiction of art and mind . Most artists are weak in their heart and are subject to the breakdown 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 inherit the tradition and awareness of the in heritage’s decay and perish that drive both Roderick and Madeline crazy and their death, and also the fall of the house of usher. ; Writing style;Alliteration for example: sensation of stupor?? the deep and dank tarn feeble and futile struggles Rhythm Besides painting a gloomy picture, the words in the