厄舍府的倒塌-公开课件（讲义）.pptVIP

;;outline; ⅠThe Author; Ⅱ Plot;It is revealed that Rodericks twin sister, Madeline, is also ill and falls into cataleptic, death-like trances. The narrator is impressed with Rodericks paintings, and attempts to cheer him by reading with him and listening to his improvised musical compositions on the guitar. Roderick sings The Haunted Palace, then tells the narrator that he believes the house he lives in to be sentient（有感知的）, and that this sentience arises from the arrangement of the masonry(石造建筑) and vegetation（植物） surrounding it. Roderick later informs the narrator that his sister died. The narrator helps the entombment. Roderick decided to put his sisters coffin in one of vaults, which have been deserted for a long time . On certain one night that is stormy, Roderick was uneasy .; So in order to calm him , the narrator read a story for him , which accidentally strikes Roderick mind that he buried his sister alive and refused to save her. Finally his sister Madeline came into the room bloody. They died together. The narrator frightened to escape from the house. The house collapsed in the storm. ;;;Ⅳ style and interpretation; Roderick and Madeline are not just brother and sister but twins who share sympathies of a scarcely intelligible nature which connect his mental disintegration to her physical decline. As Madelines mysterious illness approaches physical paralysis, Rodericks mental agitation takes the form of a morbid acuteness of the senses that separates his body from the physical world making all normal sensations painful.;ⅤTheme;while the portion of personality that we refer to as the senses (hearing, seeing, touching, tasting and smelling) is represented by Madeline. Living without Madeline (that is without the senses), Rodericks condition deteriorates（恶化）. He begins to suffer from an ...intolerable agitation of the soul. ;At the end of the story, Madeline returns from her premature tomb to claim the maddened Rode