厄舍府的崩塌

用戶評論 (總計6條)

•   很喜歡偵探推理方面的書，因為在緊張的情節(jié)中可以提高自己的邏輯思維能力。這本書綜合了愛倫坡的經(jīng)典文章，雖然在文章中的時代與我們有一定的距離，但在曲折的情節(jié)中我們依然可以看到最睿智的思維。
•   allan poe的短篇有詩的結(jié)構(gòu)和詩人的意境，翻譯方面也盡量做到了這一點，給人干凈傳神的感覺，功底深厚，符合poe的詩歌理論，‘文章最好能夠一口氣讀下來’，這本書即使是漢語也顯然沒有破壞它。
•   　　From the eighteenth century to nowadays, Gothic literature has been spread enormously quickly and popular. Edgar Allen Poe definitely is one of the most famous American author with his Gothic fiction. His short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher", is one of his well-known works of mystery and horror. At the beginning of the story, the narrator receives a letter from his old friend, Roderick Usher, who is inviting the narrator to visit him at his house. Unfortunately, on the evening the narrator arrives at the "House of Usher", Roderick's twin sister lady Madeline passes away. On a dark and stormy night, several evenings later, lady Madeline comes back to life and kills her twin brother. On the surface of this story, it seems like a supernatural gothic story. In fact, it is about human psychology. The House of Usher is frame of human mind. There are three characters in this house, the narrator, Roderick Usher, and Madeline Usher, they are the metaphors to the three elements of personality: ego, superego, and id.
  　　
  　　The narrator represents the ego in this story. Freud’s theory defines the ego as” the logical, rational, largely conscious system of personality” (Wood, G-6). When Roderick overreacts to the sight of the storm, the narrator describes the lightning scientifically as a common phenomena by saying “these appearances, which bewilder you, are merely electrical phenomena not uncommon” (Poe). Another example of the narrator rationalizing the situation would be during the reading of the “Mad Trist” to Roderick. As the narrator is reading the story “there came the echo of the very cracking and ripping sound which Sir Launcelot had so particularly described”, however, “(the narrator) at once concluded that his excited fancy had deceived him” (Poe). These examples demonstrate the logical and practical thinking of the narrator as the ego.
  　　
  　　The proprietor of the house, Roderick Usher, being the superego, is defined by Freud as being “the moral system of the personality” (Wood, G-16). “The stem of the Usher race, all time-honoured as it was, had put forth, at no period, any enduring branch; in other words, that the entire family lay in the direct line of descent, and had always, with very trifling and very temporary variation, so lain”, this implies the Usher family maintained incestuous relationships. This may have led to feelings of guilt in Roderick that could have let to him murdering his sister as the narrator describes seeing “blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame” (Poe). This struggle points to foul play that was not mentioned by Roderick.
  　　
  　　As Freud describes the id as being “the unconscious system of the personality, which contains the life and death instincts and operates on the pleasure principle”, this describes the character of lady Madeline (Wood, G-8). Throughout the entire story, she is seen as primal. She never speaks, and is just seen shambling about the mansion. After coming back from the dead, she follows her basic instincts “fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death-agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse” (Poe). Her instincts led her back to the incestuous relationship she had with her brother.
  　　
  　　The characters from the story “The Fall of the House of Usher” fit well into Freud’s system of the psyche. Each character represents the various aspects of the human mind that include the ego, superego and id. Edgar Allan Poe character development fits into this scheme of how Freud interpreted the human mind as these characters each represent an aspect related to this particular theory of psychology. With the background of incest and the gothic setting, these aspects fall into place as literary devices, illustrating the characters and defining them.
  　　
  　　
  　　
  　　
  　　
  　　
  　　Works Cited:
  　　Poe, Edgar. "The Fall of the House of Usher." PoeStories. N.p.. Web. 19 Sep 2013. <http://poestories.com/read/houseofusher>.
  　　
  　　Wood, Samuel. Mastering the World of Psychology. 2nd ed. Boston: Pearson Education, 2005. G-6, G-16, G-8. Print.
  　　
•   　　收了愛倫坡的一些著名作品，基本可以代表其作為恐怖小說、科幻小說、偵探小說的鼻祖。
  　　
  　　個人覺得，具有強(qiáng)烈風(fēng)格特征的是他的恐怖小說。喜歡愛倫坡的人也許會很喜歡。但我不喜歡，這是由我本人心理上不能承受恐怖所決定的。
  　　
  　　然而，客觀地說，愛倫坡對于恐怖氣息的渲染和極端心理的刻畫非常到位，隨便拿一篇都具有強(qiáng)烈的畫面感，無須多加工就是很好的恐怖電影的素材。這些恐怖小說的情節(jié)性并不強(qiáng)，感覺上就是作家傾其之力將心里所營造和感受的恐怖意象通過筆端傳遞給讀者。
  　　
  　　據(jù)說愛倫坡對波德萊爾有很大影響。這也有些可以理解了。
•   情節(jié)性哪里不強(qiáng)了 只是你沒有看懂那么多隱喻罷了....
•   精致的短篇不需要繁復(fù)的情節(jié)，個人認(rèn)為，愛倫坡小說的情節(jié)節(jié)奏性、深邃的恐怖渲染以及自我挑戰(zhàn)式心理的刻畫糅合的十分出色，絲毫沒有讓人感到乏味的地方....十分欣賞。

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