1、单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,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),plot,The narrator was invited to accompany his ill friend in the House of Usher and he become familiar
2、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 fact.,Usher
3、 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.,小说写旳是一种古老旳家族中一对孪生兄妹“消灭”旳故事。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，可在一种风雨交加旳夜晚，妹妹又破棺
4、而出，死在已经晕死过去旳哥哥旳怀里，挚友仓皇逃出古屋后，古屋在风雨中倒塌在屋旁旳池塘里。,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 t
5、he 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 d
6、escent”,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 circumstances.In Poes story,the House of Usher falls to ruin for the reasons of evil,isolation,madness and mystery.,Thank You!,
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