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英美文赏析 埃德加·爱伦·坡（Edgar Allan Poe)，作品The Cast of the Amontillado Poor for all his life, miserable， most works morose, gloomy, pessimistic characters: Fortunato: arrogant, self-centered, reckless Montresor: seemingly humbleconsiderate, but actually brutal, calm and smart The theme of this story is generally thought as: Revenge is the main theme of the story and the force that drives Montresor to commit the horrible murder of Fortunato. His first words in the story speak of it: The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. The idea of revenge is repeated several times in the opening paragraph. Montresor will not rush to act, he says, but at length I would be avenged; he is determined to not only punish, but punish with impunity. 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生Ralph Waldo Emerson）.The leader and spokesman of Transcendentalism Self-Reliance Emerson writing style was a Transcendentalist.they believed that the natural world held spiritual truths, and an optimistic view of the human spirit. 纳撒尼尔·霍桑（Nathaniel Hawthorne） Writer of Contradiction and Duality 作品 The Scarlet Letter 《红字》丁梅斯代尔Dimmesdale）he committed the unpardonable sin-the violation of human heart. On the one hand, Hawthorne advocates Puritan life-style and creates characters punished by the society.and their own hearts to warn people against breaching the Puritan principles. original sin Sin and knowledge are linked in the Judeo-Christian tradition. in results in expulsion and suffering. Hester and Dimmesdale contemplate their own sinfulness on a daily basis and try to reconcile it with their lived experiences. The Puritan elders, on the other hand, insist on seeing earthly experience as merely an obstacle on the path to heaven. Thus, they view sin as a threat to the community that should be punished and suppressed. The scarlet letter is meant to be a symbol of shame, but instead it becomes a powerful symbol of identity to Hester. The letter’s