The Fall of the House of Usher——爱伦坡.ppt

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER —— Sarah Symbolism The Fungus-Ridden Mansion: The Collapsing Mansion: The “Vacant eye-like” Windows of the Mansion: The Tarn, a Small Lake Encircling the Mansion and Reflecting Its Image: The Bridge Over the Tarn: The Small Fissure: The name Usher: The Storm: Writing Features Extensive vocabulary Rhythm Alliteration Anaphora Gothic elements Elements of Gothic Writing Emphasis on setting Exterior: landscape Interior: houses Castle-like architecture Characters are brooding, secretive Buried family secrets Epigraph Son coeur est un luth suspendu;Sitot quon le touche il resonne. – De Beranger Translation:?His/her heart is a poised lute;as soon as it is touched, it resounds. Narrator First Person Nameless Knew little about his friend Unreliable Roderick An artist figure Nervous agitation Lives in dark upstairs apartment Cadaverous complexion “want of moral energy” “excessive nervous agitation” Paintings →light Guitar playing → sound Reading Madeleine Illness has debilitated her All descriptions focus on the body “gradual wasting away of the person” Roderick and the narrator screw down the lid of her coffin She returns from the tomb to reclaim her twin brother, her “double” “the huge antique panels…threw back” She “fell heavily inward upon…her brother and…bore him to the floor a corpse” 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 in the tomb to decrease some fear, but on the contrary it caused greater fear and drived him to die The fear from his heart and the fear caused by the environment around him Conflict Madeline: She had deadly disease but she tried her best to live. The narrator: He couldn’t bear the insufferable gloom, but he was persuaded by his friend and curiosit