TheFalloftheHouseofUsher(中文译文)
Fall of the House of Usher(厄西亚房子的倒塌)
Edgar Allen Poe
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The Fall of the House of Usher
than before--upon the remodelled and inverted images of the grey sedge,
and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows.
Nevertheless, in this mansion of gloom I now proposed to myself a
noted, timear sensibility of temperament,
displaying itself, through long ages, in many works of exalted art, and
manner in which all this, and much more, was said--it was the apparent
heart that went with his request--which allowed me no room for hesitation;
there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the
power of thus affecting us, still the analysis of this power lies among
dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the
3. The Fall of the House of Usher《厄舍古屋的倒塌》
3. The Fall of the House of UsherName: Zhu MiClass: English 112 Narcissistic Personality and Tragic DestinyThe Fall of the House of Usher was a Gothic novel. I was horrified by its strange story, clever layout structure and eerie atmosphere and gripping. As if I was placed in a dark world, there was not any light in the house. Dark seemed to be the core and the only element of the story. For a long time, Roderick buried his sister Madeleine alive. In the final, he died with his sister.Some people think that there may be incest relationship between brother and sister and brother in conscience condemnation and unable to extricate them, so the losses of reason led him to bury his sister alive. Gothic fiction elements include horror, mystery, supernatural, bad luck, death, decadent, lived the phantom's old house, madness, the family curse, etc., and therefore some people think that this is a story of gothic novel inherent framework. But I was for narcissistic personality played a critical role in their tragic destiny.Miss Madeleine was like Roderick’s shadow, although she did not say a word to anyone in the whole story. But it could not cover up her inner narcissism: when the narrator first got to the house, "Miss Madeleine walked out the room from the distant past, without noticing me, and soon disappeared” For visiting guests, it was not possible for her to have no idea about that, but to show her noble elegant with a life time, she chose to turn a blind eye. It can be seen that she is narcissistic.Roderick is a noble, suffered from mental torture in addition to the normal inner world. He had almost everything: money, wisdom and talent. He was handsome, with surface such as gray; his eyes are watery, twinkle. His thin lips lack of blood, but the contour is extremely beautiful. So let him was “narcissism ".He couldn't accept the reality of his sister would leave him for narcissists, usually with a strong acquisitiveness, rather than let the god of death took her away, not equal to do it yourself, or perhaps they're in an inner delusion. He would rather let her sleep forever and he chose to bury his sister alive. And he did not think of, it's a suicide. Integral part of the destruction and the rest will also cease to exist. When he suddenly enlightened, the late also for narcissist’s sister Epiphany: can't bring elder brother, she cut the coffin, dragging chains, struggled to escape from the cellar, to die together with brother. As urban family the only remaining in the world of the death of two people, symbol of the urban house of the family's house also does not have the necessary: like Roderick way of death, the house crashing fall mountain pool, consumed by his reflection. Narcissistic personality let brother and sister in love with each other with similar appearance. Narcissistic personality let brother acquisitiveness culmination and he buried sister. His sister couldn’t bear her brother live in the world alone without her, so she chose to bring her brother to die together. The spirit of the brother and sister died, symbolizing the destruction of their family physical which finally caused the symbol of the house collapsed. Narcissistic personality determined the fate of their death couldn’t be changed, so of final outcome was inevitable.The personality decides destiny. Highly narcissistic personality was the murder who murdered the twin brother and sister, since one cannot distinguish, object and extreme self-centered person. Its tragic fate was destined. Morbid life environment intensified their pathological narcissistic personality; eventually lead to the destruction of the entire family, usher house also disappeared.。
The Fall of the House of Usher(中文译文)
The Fall of The House of Usher(中文译文)厄榭府的崩塌他的心儿是把悬挂的琴;轻轻一拨就铮铮有声。
——贝朗瑞那年秋天,一个阴沉、昏暗、岑寂的日子,乌云低垂,厚重地笼罩着大地。
整整一天,我孤零零地骑着马,驰过乡间一片无比萧索的旷野。
暮色四合之际,令人忧伤的厄榭府终于遥遥在望。
我也说不清是怎么回事,一瞥见那座建筑,心灵就充满难以忍受的忧伤。
说难以忍受,是因为往常即便到了荒蛮之所或可怕的惨境,遇到那种无比严苛的自然景象,也难免有几分诗意,甚而生出几分喜悦;如今,这股忧伤的感觉却总是挥之不去。
我愁肠百结地望着眼前的景物。
我望着孤单的府邸和庄园里单一的山水风貌,望着荒凉的垣墙、空洞的眼睛一样的窗子、三五枝气味难闻的芦苇、几株枯木白花花的树干——心里真是愁苦至极,愁苦得俗世的情感已无法比拟,只有与染阿芙蓉癖者梦回以后的感觉作比,才足够贴切——苦痛流为日常,丑恶的面纱也摘除而去。
我的心直翻腾,还冷冰冰地往下沉,凄凉得无可救赎,任是再有刺激人的想像力,也难说这是心灵的升华。
究竟的怎么了?我思忖起来。
到底是什么原因,使得我在注目厄谢府时如此不能自控?这是个破解不了的谜。
沉思间,模糊的幻想涌满心头,却又无从捉摸。
我只得退而求其次,自圆其说罢了——简单的自然景物凑在一起,确实有左右人情绪的力量,但要剖析这种感染力,即便费尽心机,也是无迹可寻。
我思量道,这片景物中的一草一木,一山一水只消在细微处布置得稍有不同,带给人的那种悲伤的感觉,可能就会减轻,或许会归于消泯。
这种念头一起,我策马奔至山中小湖的险岸边。
小湖就傍着宅第,湖面泛着光泽,却一丝涟漪都没有,黑黢黢,阴森森,倒映出变形的灰色芦苇、惨白树干、空洞眼睛一样的窗子。
我俯视着湖面,浑身颤抖,比刚才的感觉还要奇怪。
然而,目前我还是打算在这阴沉的府邸作几个星期的逗留。
这座府邸的主人罗德里克•厄谢是我儿时的好朋友。
我们有好多年没见过面了。
可最近,我收到了一封从本国一个遥远的地方发来的信——是他写来的,信写得很急切,还非要我亲自去一趟。
The_Fall_of_the_House_of_Usher《鄂谢府崩溃记》《厄舍古屋的倒塌》_中文译版
The Fall of the House of Usher《鄂谢府崩溃记》/《厄舍古屋的倒塌》【中文译版】[爱伦·坡著]他的心脏像是一个悬挂着的琴箱,稍一碰触便发出音乐的鸣响。
——贝朗瑞在这年秋天的一个沉淡、阴暗、寂静的白日,天上的云彩低垂。
整整一天我独自一人骑着马走过乡下一大片极为凄凉的土地,暮色降临时,我终于看见了那阴沉的厄舍古厦。
不知怎么搞的,我一看到这幢房子,就不由产生出一种难以忍受的忧郁感。
我说难以忍受,是由于这种感情中没有半点美的味道,要知道,即使是最荒凉、最可怕的自然景象,在人们心中也往往会引起一种近乎诗意的感伤,而我现在的忧郁感中却毫无诗意可言。
我望着前面的景象——望着这幢房子和它周围的地貌,望着光秃秃的墙壁,望着眼睛般的窗户,望着那一排排蓑草,望着那几株死树的白树干,心中极感压抑。
这感觉就如同吸足鸦片的人从美梦中醒来,重新回到冰冷的现实中一样。
我心里冰凉冰凉的,心猛地往下一沉,感到一阵恶心——不论运用何种崇高的想象力,这种忧郁感都是无法驱散的。
我不由想到:这是怎么了为什么我一看到厄舍古厦心里便极为别扭这是一个难解之谜,我无法解释为什么我一想到它便心中充满种种阴沉的想象。
我只好得出一个十分牵强的结论:一方面,毫无疑问,自然景物这种组合,确实产生了一种力量,可以影响人的情绪,而另一方面,对于这种组合的感受和分析,却应该是因人而异,寓于人本身的思考当中的。
我想到,假如把眼前的这些景物重新安排一下,它们的压抑性很可能就会大大减弱,甚至完全消除。
这样一想,我便策马来到池塘陡峭的边缘,观看灰色的蓑草、丑陋的枯树干,和那眼睛般空洞洞的窗口,我心中忽然打一个冷战,情绪变得比刚才更为压抑。
然而,我却将在这幢阴沉的古厦中住上几个星期。
它的主人罗德里克·厄舍从小就是我的好朋友,但是现在我俩已经许多年未曾谋面了。
最近我收到了一封来自远方乡下的信——一封来自他的信,一封纠缠着我、必须我亲自答复的信。
TheFalloftheHouseofUsher解读学习资料
All descriptions of Madeline focus on the body
Illness has weakened her Roderick and the narrator
had screw down the lid of her coffin, but she returns from the tomb to reclaim her twin brother, her
- To represent the belief that humans are burdened
Doppelganger motif 二重身
•In Poe, one side of man is reason, or the mind, the other is emotion, or the body
controversial and
misunderstood in America, but
well received in Europe, esp. in
France
father of modern short story detective story psychoanalytic(精神分析的) criticism
sounds and shriek are heard somewhere in the house. •Roderick becomes increasingly hysterical, and exclaims that the sounds are being
•As the narrator
made by his sister,
looks back upon
there with blood
the fall of the house of the usher 结课论文
双语学院期末考查课论文2012 -2013 学年第一学期院、系:双语学院班级:英德xxxx姓名:谢茹辉学号:xxxxxxxxx科目:美国文学史概述及作品选读论文中外文题目:Analysis of the Fall of the House of Usher小说《厄舍古屋的倒塌》之小析评价要素满分得分选题10分资料查阅10分摘要与关键词10分论文水平50分论文创新10分论文规格10分成绩合计评阅教师__________________Analysis of the Fall of the House of Usher小说《厄舍古屋的倒塌》之小析Abstract:The Fall of the House of Usher is one of the famous work from Edgar Allan Poe, which is regarded as an horror novel. In the novel he created horror atmospheres through Gothic style. Besides, he mainly described three characters: the narrator, Usher and Madeline. To make this horror novel be successful—the gothic style and horror atmospheres, he also kept his eyes so much on the appearance and weird actions of the twins—Usher and Madeline, the atmosphere around the house and inside house, especially the Madeline’s death and her relive, that he used hundreds of thousands of words to create his horror world. This work is very important and significant, so it is necessary to lucubrate and analyze it.Key words: horror atmosphere Gothic three charactersⅠ.IntroductionFirst of all, I will introduce the correlative information about the author—Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849), who had a miserable childhood. He was as an orphan at the age of two, and luckily he was took care of by a childless but wealthy merchant—John in Virginia. But he was not quite well in his adulthood. Although he died at the age of 40, but he had at least 25 years wrote his works. He did leave us lots of great and fantastic works, including Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque—his first collection of short stories, The Raven and To Helen —poems, The Golden Bug—the detective story, The Business Man—the comedy, The Fall of the House of Usher—horror tale and so on. There are also a variety of works about the theme or style that I have mentioned above. Therefore, he was a prolific and versatile writer in the 19th century America. And his works, ranging from fiction, legend, tales, and poetry to critical articles, influenced the course of literary criticism and literature itself. Today, he was remembered by his poems, horror tale –because of his being a master of it—and short stories, editor and literary critic. As an inventor of the detective story, even Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, a famous British detective story writer, who wrote Sherlock Holms, for although even his death for a long time, he remained being a controversial writer and others could n’t understand him at all, however, he wasreceived well in Europe. The fall of the house of Usher was one of his famous masterpiece, whose article is not only means the fall of the real Usher’s house but also the fall of the Usher’s family.Then I would like to summarize the contents of the novel. It was a story that happened during the whole of a dull, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, the narrator went to his friend’s named Usher, his friend in his childhood, who invited him to company Usher by sending him a letter, because Usher got psychological or mental illness. Usher, with his twin sister Madeline, lived in a melancholy and choking house, which is inherited from his family. Madeline was sick for many years, while her brother was oppressed by a mental disorder. The narrator came with his goodness and wanted to comfort Usher. Until one day Usher told him that Madeline died. Actually it is he who encoffined her too early, that means Usher buried her before she died or when she was still alive. However, she relive in a stormy night. She came out from the coffin and came up the upstairs where we were to get her revenge. When she fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, both she and her brother died, and the narrator came out of the house panicly. At the end of the story the house of Usher crushed down in to the well near by.Ⅱ.Analysis of the Fall of the House of UsherIn the novel, what give us the most profound impression is the Gothic style and horror atmosphere from the house, 3 main characters, and its horrible and appealing plots. Poe did this horror novel successfully by using his luxurious language and his colorful imaginations. Besides, we should know that this novel is a Gothic novel. And Gothic novel, named also Dark Romance, is one branch of the English literature and the father of horror movies. In this novel, it touches some gothic elements including horror, mystery, death, haunted house and sort of family distorted. This kind of novel was called commonly the gothic literature, which often base on the ancient castles, wasteland or wilderness. The story, which happened in the past –one night, especially in the medial century, was often filled with murder, violence, revenge, rape, incest. Even there are appearing ghosts or supernatural phenomenon. The plot was very exciting. Horror, suspense, mystery, eeriness are through the whole novel. It is the interval theme for gothic novel that the conferences between brightness and darkness, goodness and evil, god and ghost. In the following I will share my thoughts—analysis of this novel—with you. So follow my opinions closely, then you can get what kind of views do I have deeply in heart.ⅰ.The environmental atmosphereAt the beginning of the story, the first sentence describe a gloomy and obituary tone: during the whole of dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, …the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, …I had been passing alone, on horse back, through a singularly dreary tract of a country, … within the melancholy House of Usher. All--the autumn, sunset, the (dark) clouds, and the wilderness—indicates the approaching of the death. It makes the narrator insufferable. This environmental description make a great basis for developing the following story.Then when he arrived at the place where he can get the whole view of the house, he got this scene: --upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain—upon the bleak walls—upon the vacant eyes-like windows—upon a few rank sedges—and upon a few white trunks of decayed tress. …I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled luster by the dwelling, and gaze down,… upon the remodeled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree—stems, and vacant and eye—like windows.Then when he look up the mansion again, he got a kind of illusion: the whole mansion there hung an atmosphere peculiar to themselves and their immediate vicinity-an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of the heaven, but which had reeked up from the decayed trees, and the gray wall, and the silent tarn—a pestilent and mystic vapour, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hued. In my opinion, it is enough to scare me, because the scenes are vivid, so that I am almost personally on the scene and experience it.Besides, at the end of the story it was a horrible night, he was driven to be crazy. His room was fearful. And he was afraid of something, so he had to …endeavoured to believe that much , if not all of what I felt, was due to the bewildering influence of the gloomy furniture of the room—of the dark and tattered draperies, which, tortured into motion by the breath of a rising tempest, swayed fitfully to and fro upon the walls, and rustled uneasily about the decorations of the bed…. I uplifted myself upon the pillows, and, peering earnestly within the intense darkness of the chamber, hearkened—I know not why, except that an instinctive spirit prompted me—to certain low and indefinite sounds which came, through the pauses of the storm, at long intervals, I knew not whence. All these scenes were seen by the narrator and experience. He was a kind of media that exploring the horror. Combined with his psychological change, we also be the one the house and being scary.ⅱ.The horror atmosphere from 3 main characters:the narrator, Usher and MadelineThe narrator was an unnamed character, and a friend of Usher from his boyhood but he did not understand Usher so much. He only know that Usher family are a respected noble family and Usher has a sister with illness all the time. They haven’t connected each other for a long time. But he came to the Usher’s house, because Usher sent him a letter with an ill information and invited him to accompany with. Therefore, he was the sole person who saw how everything happened. What he saw and heard was the main plotline of the story, including everything happened with the twin sister and brother.ⅲ.Three main characters1. The narratorHe was the only clear—headed and rational person in the house. As the third point of view, it makes us believe that everything he said that happened in the house was real, because he was not only saw it but also experienced it. But actually if you think while reading, you can get the arguments. He said that they are intimate associates, but he did not know little about Usher. He decided to come to the house just because he was attracted by Usher’s and his sister’s mental illness from Usher’s inviting letter. He believed that he could change the situation and comfort Usher through his accompany. However, the fate of Usher could not be altered. He tried to analyze Usher’s psychology and actions, for he did not believe it inherited from generations to generations just as Usher’s explanations. But some time later he was infected and became fearful when he was with Usher. He tried to control his fear when he continued to narrate the plot. When he saw Madeline, she was a kind of invisible, both of them did not have any greeting like Hello or eye contact. Some days later, Usher told him that she died. He put Madeline in to the coffin lively with Usher, and at this time he notice that her appearance was familiar to her brother—twins. Here, he was a kind of Usher’s accessory. When he felt that Madeline did not die, that catastrophe night when Madeline came out from coffin, he had an inexpressible and unbearable fear whatever he tried to calm down himself. He was so crazy by the sound from the cellar where Madeline and the coffin were that he could not fall into sleep. Usher came in and stayed with him. Since they two are fearful, he read the book Mad Trist to help them calm down. But on the contrary, they became more anxious. When Madeline appeared at the door, and she fell heavily inward upon theperson of her brother. Seeing their corpse, he ran away with great horror as the house falling down. This plot is successfully caught reader’s attention.When he met Usher, he was scared by Usher from appearance, especially the eyes. It’s weird.Usher was the owner of the house, which was inherited from his ancient family.2. UsherJust as we have mentioned, he got mental illness. With narrator’s description from him: an eye large, liquid, and luminous beyond comparison; lips somewhat thin and very pallid, but of a surpassingly beautiful curve; a nose of a delicate Hebrew model, but with a breadth of nostril unusual in similar formations; a finely moulded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy; hair of a more than web-like softness and tenuity; these features, with an inordinate expansion above the regions of the temple, all of us followed him and got the first impression of Usher, who believe everything had its spirits. Besides, He suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses; the most insipid food was alone endurable; he could wear only garments of certain texture; the odours of all flowers were oppressive; his eyes were tortured by even a faint light; and there were but peculiar sounds, and these from stringed instruments, which did not inspire him with horror. He had an habitual trepidancy --an excessive nervous agitation. Then he told the his friend that he was going to die. He did not tell much about his sister. When he told the narrator she died, in fact, she did not and he knew it, but he put her in a coffin in the cellar. Seven or eight days later, before she came out from the coffin, he acted weird. he felt her because they were twins. It seems he knew everything and predicted it exactly. He murmured before she appeared at the door: Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb! Said I not that my senses were acute? I now tell you that I heard her first feeble movements in the hollow coffin. I heard them --many, many days ago --yet I dared not --I dared not speak! And now --to-night --Ethelred --ha! ha! --the breaking of the hermit's door, and the death-cry of the dragon, and the clangour of the shield! --say, rather, the rending of her coffin, and the grating of the iron hinges of her prison, and her struggles within the coppered archway of the vault! Oh whither shall I fly? Will she not be here anon? Is she not hurrying to upbraid me for my haste? Have I not heard her footstep on the stair? Do Inot distinguish that heavy and horrible beating of her heart? MADMAN!3. MadelineShe was a minor role in this novel. There is no many words for her, even when she passed by from the narrator. From her appearance, the narrator had this sentence: a striking similitude between the brother and sister. Just because she was mysterious, the plot develop to the climax, especially before she came out from the coffin. Besides, at the end of the novel, she appeared with the image: There was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. . For a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold, then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death-agonies...Ⅳ.ConclusionFrom above, I make my points in the gothic style, the extroadinary and horrible atmosphere, and the 3 main characters and its plot. This is a great novel that develop gothic style or horror novel. The images of decay and death rule the whole context and we can smell the scent of terror and death right from the beginning to the end. We could hardly help being carried into it, placing themselves in a dark, dull and gray ancient house, and experiencing a thrilling story with the narrator. Poe wrote it not only in the atmosphere, but also in the psychology—the father and master of this style, especially from the narrator and Usher, so that the horror can shock us from our heart, our inner world.Bibliography1. Liu Jianbo刘洊波,America literature: A Briefly History & Deleted Readings. Beijing Higher education Press, 2010.年2. Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher, Signet Classics 2006年3. [2][美]爱伦·坡著 .曹明伦译 .爱伦·坡精品集 .合肥:安徽文艺出版社,19994.[美]爱伦·坡著,陈良廷等译:《爱伦·坡短篇小说集》,人民文学出版社2006年版。
TheFalloftheHouseofUsher鄂榭府崩溃记原文以及译文
鄂榭府崩溃记这是秋日里灰蒙蒙的一天,空中积满了大团大团的乌云。
整整一天,我骑着马从平淡、乏味的乡野间驰过;不过,到天色开始变得昏暝的时候,我终于望见了此行的目的地。
在我眼前,兀然立着鄂榭府。
一看见它——不知何故——一种阴悒至极的怪异感觉便降临在我身上,像一张毯子一样罩住了我。
我抬头仰望这座有着高大的石墙和狭小的窗户的古旧府第,又环顾四周稀疏的枯草和垂死的老树,这时,仿佛有一只冰冷的手抓住了我的心。
我觉得奇寒彻骨,浑身乏力,怎么也想不起一件乐事来驱散心头的阴悒。
我真奇怪,为什么鄂榭府会令我感觉如此之差?我百思不得其解。
紧挨着宅子有一个湖,我骑马来到湖边停住。
也许从这个角度看上去,宅子就不显得那样黯淡、那样阴悒了。
我低头朝幽暗、凝止的湖水望去,在倒影中再一次看见了房子上面空荡的、眼睛似的窗户,以及四周那些垂死的树。
阴悒的感觉愈发强烈起来。
我将在这座府邸里盘桓几个星期。
府邸的主人罗德里克·鄂榭,是我孩提时代的一个好友,我已有好多年没有见到他了;可是最近他给我来了一封信——一封透着悲哀与恐怖的信。
他在信中说他患了病,身体和精神都不正常,还说他急切地要见我。
我是他惟一的朋友,只有我能够帮助他摆脱疾病的折磨。
虽说我们年少的时候是挚友,但我对他了解得非常少。
他极少谈及他自己,不过我知道他来自一个历史特别悠久的世家,而他是这个世家最后一位活在人间的男性。
我还知道,在鄂榭家族史上还从未有过子息繁盛的时候,于是,数百年来,家族的姓氏连同家族的宅第均是由父及于由子及孙一脉单传。
我站在湖边,心头阴悒的感觉一刻强似一刻。
我同样清楚,这阴悒之情的下面暗伏着恐惧,而恐惧又以古怪的方式作用于我的头脑。
我开始猜测这阴悒并不在我头脑中,而是某种真实的东西。
它宛如一团神秘的云气,似乎是从幽暗的湖水、垂死的树和宅子破旧的墙垣中间径直升腾而起的。
那是团沉重的铅云,饱含着疾病与恐怖。
我告诉自己这是个梦,又更加仔细地打量眼前的这栋建筑。
英语简易原著阅读厄舍古厦的倒塌
Thank you !
playing music Painting reading
Belief
All plants and lifeless objects had the power of feeling.
The air around the house had a silent and terrible influence on his family.
Type of Work
It is a short story of Gothic horror written in first-person point of view.
Setting
• The story begins at dusk on an autumn day in the 19th Century. The place is a forbidding mansion in a lonely countryside. The mansion is surrounded by a small lake. A bridge across the lake provides access to the mansion.
A stormy night
Edgar was sleepless caused by the wind and the storm outside.
He began to walk across the room to calm himself.
Usher went upstairs to see him. Usher's strange manner made Edgar afraid. He began to read story to calm Usher.
The-Fall-of-the-House-of-Usher——爱伦坡PPT课件
• Castle-like architecture • Characters are brooding, secretive • Buried family secrets
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Epigraph
• Son coeur est un luth suspendu; Sitot qu'on le touche il resonne.
• Mind and body are at war with each other in each of us.
• We try to repress one side and live without it. • But we cannot achieve a harmonious existence
• 《美因茨教会合唱经本中追思已亡占礼前夕经》
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THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
—— Sarah
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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:
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Poe’s Theory of Literary Unity
• An author should “conceive, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, [and] then invent such … events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect.
The Fall of the House of Usher解读
Plot summary
•In the house, it is revealed that Roderick’s sister, Madeline, is also seriously ill.
•Roderick later informs the narrator that his sister has died and insists that she be entombed(埋葬) for two weeks in a vault(地下拱顶室) in the house before being permanently buried. The narrator helps Roderick put the body in the tomb.
★The sense of horror and mystery Gothic novel elements Symbols Characters
Characters Doppelganger motif
•What is doppelganger? - “Doppelganger”(面貌相似的人,二 重身) is from the German for “doublegoer”. - Defined as “a second self or alternate identity, sometimes, but not always, a physical twin.”
仔细观察也许会发现一道难以辨识的裂缝从房子正面的屋顶开始呈锯齿形沿墙而下一直通入池塘的死水之中
Conan Doyle 柯南· 道尔
Jules Verne 儒勒· 凡尔纳
Edogawa Ranpo Hitchcock 江户川乱步 希区柯克
Edgar Allan Poe
TheFalloftheHouseofUsher解读学习资料
France
father of modern short story detective story psychoanalytic(精神分析的) criticism
爱伦·坡
(1809-1849)
➢Theme & Style death disintegration (separation) of life horror negative thoughts of science traditional
爱伦·坡 (1809-1849)
➢Literary output
A: poem (The Raven)
B: literary theory
(The Poetic Principle)
C: short story
MS. Found in a Bottle 《瓶中手稿》
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
looks back upon
there with blood
the House of
on her robe. She
Usher. He
falls on her
watches it break
brother, and they
in two, the
both land on the
fragments
floor as corpses.
Gothic novel elements
• Two extracts p.122
1. Its principal feature seemed to be
that of an excessive antiquity. The discoloration of ages had been great. Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves.
TheFalloftheHouseofUsher解读学习资料
Doppelganger motif 二重身
•Who represents what?
Roderick is all mind in a weak body
Symbols
•The house of Usher :
1. The mansion
2. The Usher family
Symbols
•The fungus-ridden house -Decline of the Usher family
• The collapsing house: -Fall of the Usher family
- To represent the belief that humans are burdened
Doppelganger motif 二重身
•In Poe, one side of man is reason, or the mind, the other is emotion, or the body
• Emphasis on setting – Exterior: castle-like architecture surrounded by decaying landscape – Interior: house with buried family secrets
• Long history of family tied to house • Characters are brooding and secretive
gothicnovelelementsscrutinizingobservermighthavediscoveredbarelyperceptiblefissurewhichextendingfromfrontmadeitswaydownzigzagdirectionuntilbecamelostsullenwaters仔细观察也许会发现一道难以辨识的裂缝从房子正面的屋顶开始呈锯齿形沿墙而下一直通入池塘的死水之中
The_Fall_of_the_House_of_Usher_鄂榭府崩溃记(原文以及译文)
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美国文学史 爱伦坡 the fall of the house of Usher 总结
Summary of The Fall of the House of Usher1. Time: in the autumn of the year2. Place: the House of the Usher3. Person: Roderick Usher;Mr. Usher’s Sister, Madeline;Mr. Usher’s Friend, I.4. Background: A dull, dark, and soundless day;Scene: upon the mere house, the simple landscape features of the domain, upon the bleak wells, upon the vacant eye-like windows, upon a few rank sedges and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees. That is really horrible.5. The cause of the story: In a dull, dark, and soundless autumn, the author had received a letter from his friend, Roderick Usher, who wanted to invite him to the house of Usher. Mr. Usher hope the cheerfulness of his friend’s society can give alleviation to his malady. But the House of Usher gave an uncomfortable feel to his friend. When I met Mr. Usher, I found his countenance worn a mingled expression of low cunning and perplexity, his action was alternately vivacious and sullen. Mr. Usher’s malady was really serious.6. The development of the story: Usher’s sister, the lady Madeline, has suffered from the catalepsy, which made Usher very sad. Then I spend several days with Usher, the lady Madeline’s name was never mentioned between Usher and me. During these days, Usher sang, painted and wrote poems. One evening Usher informed me that the lady Madeline passed away, Usher stated his attention of preserving her corpse for a fortnight, previously to its final interment, in one of the numerous vaults within the main walls of the building. At the request of Usher, I aided him in the arrangements for the temporary entombment. We deposited their mournful burden upon trestles within this region of horror, replaced and screwed down the lid, and secured the door of iron, made their way, with toil, into the scarcely less gloomy apartment of the upper portion of the house.7. The climax of the story: A few days after the funeral, Usher’s ordinary mannerhad vanished. His ordinary occupations were neglected or forgotten. He roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless step. His countenance had assumed a more ghastly hue. And his condition terrified infected me. Especially, upon retiring to bed late in the night of the seventh or eighth day after the entombment of the lady Madeline, I experienced the full power of fantastic feeling. I heard some sounds, but I did not know where the sound came and I found it was horrible. I cannot sleep any more that night. I had taken few turns in this manner, Usher stepped on with a light. Usher became madder; Usher asked me if I had seen it. I was scared, so I took the Mad Trist of Sir Launcelot Canning, and read it to Usher. Then the sounds came, I stared convulsively to my feet. Usher told me that the lady Madeline did die, we put her into the coffin when she still alive. Then the lady Madeline stood without the door. There was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. She remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold, then with a low moaning cry, her brother fell and in her horrible and finally her brother died. I run out of the House of Usher.8. The end of the story: I run out the house of Usher, and house had been ruined. Everything became silent.。
The Fall of the House of Usher——爱伦坡
Structure and Unity
• Poe creates texts within texts
1. ―The Haunted Palace‖ (poem) reflects the Usher family life in the house 2. ―The Mad Trist‖ (story) parallels Madeleine’s return from the grave 3. The storm outside is analogous to the turmoil inside the characters in the house 4. The book titles in Roderick’s library are symbolic of the themes of the story
Conflict
Usher:
(1)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 (2)Usher loved his sister very much, but Madeline suffered a lot from her malady and was going to die (3)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 (4)The fear from his heart and the fear caused by the environment around him
The-Fall-of-the-House-of-Usher《鄂谢府崩溃记》《厄舍古屋的倒塌》-中文译版
The Fall of the House of Usher《鄂谢府崩溃记》/《厄舍古屋的倒塌》【中文译版】[爱伦·坡著]他的心脏像是一个悬挂着的琴箱,稍一碰触便发出音乐的鸣响。
——贝朗瑞在这年秋天的一个沉淡、阴暗、寂静的白日,天上的云彩低垂。
整整一天我独自一人骑着马走过乡下一大片极为凄凉的土地,暮色降临时,我终于看见了那阴沉的厄舍古厦。
不知怎么搞的,我一看到这幢房子,就不由产生出一种难以忍受的忧郁感。
我说难以忍受,是由于这种感情中没有半点美的味道,要知道,即使是最荒凉、最可怕的自然景象,在人们心中也往往会引起一种近乎诗意的感伤,而我现在的忧郁感中却毫无诗意可言。
我望着前面的景象——望着这幢房子和它周围的地貌,望着光秃秃的墙壁,望着眼睛般的窗户,望着那一排排蓑草,望着那几株死树的白树干,心中极感压抑。
这感觉就如同吸足鸦片的人从美梦中醒来,重新回到冰冷的现实中一样。
我心里冰凉冰凉的,心猛地往下一沉,感到一阵恶心——不论运用何种崇高的想象力,这种忧郁感都是无法驱散的。
我不由想到:这是怎么了?为什么我一看到厄舍古厦心里便极为别扭?这是一个难解之谜,我无法解释为什么我一想到它便心中充满种种阴沉的想象。
我只好得出一个十分牵强的结论:一方面,毫无疑问,自然景物这种组合,确实产生了一种力量,可以影响人的情绪,而另一方面,对于这种组合的感受和分析,却应该是因人而异,寓于人本身的思考当中的。
我想到,假如把眼前的这些景物重新安排一下,它们的压抑性很可能就会大大减弱,甚至完全消除。
这样一想,我便策马来到池塘陡峭的边缘,观看灰色的蓑草、丑陋的枯树干,和那眼睛般空洞洞的窗口,我心中忽然打一个冷战,情绪变得比刚才更为压抑。
然而,我却将在这幢阴沉的古厦中住上几个星期。
它的主人罗德里克·厄舍从小就是我的好朋友,但是现在我俩已经许多年未曾谋面了。
最近我收到了一封来自远方乡下的信——一封来自他的信,一封纠缠着我、必须我亲自答复的信。
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The Fall of The House of Usher(中文译文) 厄榭府的崩塌他的心儿是把悬挂的琴;轻轻一拨就铮铮有声。
——贝朗瑞那年秋天,一个阴沉、昏暗、岑寂的日子,乌云低垂,厚重地笼罩着。
整整一天,我孤零零地骑着马,驰过乡间一片无比萧索的旷野。
暮色四合之际,令人忧伤的厄榭府终于遥遥在望。
我也说不清是怎么回事,一瞥见那座建筑,心灵就充满难以忍受的忧伤。
说难以忍受,是因为往常即便到了荒蛮之所或可怕的惨境,遇到那种无比严苛的自然景象,也难免有几分诗意,甚而生出几分喜悦;如今,这股忧伤的感觉却总是挥之不去。
我愁肠百结地望着眼前的景物。
我望着孤单的府邸和庄园里单一的山水风貌,望着荒凉的垣墙、空洞的眼睛一样的窗子、三五枝气味难闻的芦苇、几株枯木白花花的树干——心里真是愁苦至极,愁苦得俗世的情感已无法比拟,只有与染阿芙蓉癖者梦回以后的感觉作比,才足够贴切——苦痛流为日常,丑恶的面纱也摘除而去。
我的心直翻腾,还冷冰冰地往下沉,凄凉得无可救赎,任是再有刺激人的想像力,也难说这是心灵的升华。
究竟的怎么了?我思忖起来。
到底是什么原因,使得我在注目厄府时如此不能自控?这是个破解不了的谜。
沉思间,模糊的幻想涌满心头,却又无从捉摸。
我只得退而求其次,自圆其说罢了——简单的自然景物凑在一起,确实有左右人情绪的力量,但要剖析这种感染力,即便费尽心机,也是无迹可寻。
我思量道,这片景物中的一草一木,一山一水只消在细微处布置得稍有不同,带给人的那种悲伤的感觉,可能就会减轻,或许会归于消泯。
这种念头一起,我策马奔至山中小湖的险岸边。
小湖就傍着宅第,湖面泛着光泽,却一丝涟漪都没有,黑黢黢,阴森森,倒映出变形的灰色芦苇、惨白树干、空洞眼睛一样的窗子。
我俯视着湖面,浑身颤抖,比刚才的感觉还要奇怪。
然而,目前我还是打算在这阴沉的府邸作几个星期的逗留。
这座府邸的主人罗德里克•厄是我儿时的好朋友。
我们有好多年没见过面了。
可最近,我收到了一封从本国一个遥远的地方发来的信——是他写来的,信写得很急切,还非要我亲自去一趟。
在他的亲笔信里,显然透着股的神经不安的味道。
他提到自己患有严重的疾病——是让他备受折磨的精神错乱,还说,真的很想见到我这个最好的朋友、惟一的知己,能跟我快活地呆上一阵子,病情便会减轻云云。
全信如此这般说了很多。
他的请求显然出于一片真心,让人片刻都不能犹豫。
于是,我马上就应邀动身了。
来是来了,我却依然认为,他的召唤真是蹊跷得紧。
我们虽然是童年时代的密友,可我对这位朋友确实知之甚少。
他总是有所保留,这都成了他的习惯。
不过我很清楚的是,很久以前,他的先祖就以多愁善感闻名。
多少年来,这一特点总是经由高贵的艺术品体现出来;最近,则表现为举办一次又一次慷慨却不扬的慈善活动,迷恋上音乐的复杂性,而不是热爱其一致公认、一听即懂的美。
我也知道一个异乎寻常的事实,厄家族虽历来受人尊敬,但却从未有过不衰的旁系子,换句话说就是,这个家族属于一代单传,除了微乎其微、偶尔出现的例外,永远都是这样。
想着这座房屋的特色跟人们普遍认定的厄家族的性格极其吻合,想着好几百年来,房屋的特色有可能影响到厄家族的性格,我不由认为,或许正是因为缺乏旁系支亲,才致使财产和姓氏总是祖相传,世代相袭,最后财产和姓氏终于混而为一,庄园的名称渐渐消失,一个离奇而模棱两可的名称——“厄府”,浮出了地表。
庄稼人都用这个名称,在他们心里,这个名称似乎既包含了这个家族,又包含了这座府邸。
我上面说过了,俯视湖水这一略带幼稚的举止,只是加剧了早先那种奇怪的忧伤。
无疑,这迅速弥漫的迷信感——何不就称之为迷信呢?——只会益发浓重。
我早就晓得,惟有心里胡思乱想,才会觉得恐怖。
这是个荒谬的定律。
或许正是这个缘故,当我不再看那些水中倒影,再度举目望着府邸时,我的心里就生出了奇怪的幻象。
那幻象是那么荒谬,真的,我提到它是想说明折磨人的种种思绪有着何其强大的威力。
我这么胡思乱想着,竟然当真相信整座府邸和整片庄园都弥散着一种气息,连同附近一带都沾染了这种气息。
这气息与天空中的大气迥然不同,而是从枯木、灰墙、死水中飘散而出,阴沉、迟滞、灰扑扑的模糊难辨,像瘟疫一样不可思议。
我抖落掉心中那些只能说是梦幻的念头,更仔细地端详这座府邸的真正面貌。
看来它的主要特征,在于年代极为古远,时光的痕迹使它褪尽了鲜亮的颜色。
墙上布满微小的真菌,乱糟糟地挂在屋檐下,酷似蜘蛛网。
不过倒也找不出破损得特别厉害的地方。
没有一堵墙是倒塌的。
各部分配合完好,整齐划一,个别石头却碎裂了,看上去非常不协调。
这使我不由想起无人问津的地窖里那旧的木制品,多年来它们吹不到外面的一缕风,看似完整,实则早已腐烂多年。
不过厄府除了表面上的衰颓,整幢建筑看上去丝毫没有摇摇欲坠的迹象。
如果仔细观察,兴许能发现一条细微的裂缝,它就从正面屋顶上开始,曲曲弯弯顺墙而下,直至消失在阴沉沉的湖水中。
我留意着这一切,沿着一条短短的堤道,骑马来到府邸门口。
一个侍从接过马缰绳。
我跨进了哥特式的大厅拱门。
一个蹑手蹑脚的男仆,无声地带我穿过一道道昏暗而曲折的回廊,到主人的工作室去。
不知为什么,一路上看到的景物,竟使我上面提及的那种含含糊糊的愁绪,变本加厉了。
周遭的一切——天花板上的雕刻、四壁黑色的帷幔、乌黑的地板、幻影似的亦步亦趋发出“咔嗒咔嗒”声的纹章甲胄——我幼时就看惯了。
我毫不犹疑地承认,一切都很熟悉,可我还是很惊讶,这些普通的物件,怎么就激起了那么陌生的幻想!在一座楼梯上,我遇见了他家的医生。
他面露刁奸与困惑之色,他抖索着跟我搭了句话,便溜走了。
这时男仆突然打开门,引我到他主人面前。
我发现,房间极高,也很宽大,窗子狭长,尖尖地耸着,离漆黑的橡木地板老高,伸手根本触不到。
几缕微弱的红光,透过格子玻璃射进来,把四下里比较显眼的物件照得清清楚楚。
然而,房间远处的角落、雕花拱顶的凹陷处,却无论怎样都照射不到。
墙壁上挂着深色的帷幔。
家具特别多,但几乎都不舒服,又过时破旧。
四处散布着书籍和乐器,却并没有给房间增添一分生机。
我嗅到的只是悲伤的气息。
周遭的一切都笼罩着阴沉、幽深、无可救赎的忧郁之气。
厄正直挺挺地躺在沙发上,见我进去,马上爬了起来,热情欢快地迎接我。
我起初以为这份热诚过了火,不过是这厌世者的做作之举,可瞥了一眼他的面容,确信是出于一片真诚。
我们坐了下来,有一阵子,他一语不发。
我望着他,心里半是同情,半是敬畏。
相信没有一个人像罗德里克•厄那样,在那么短的时间里,变得那么厉害。
我费了好大劲才认定眼前这个人就是我幼年时代的伙伴。
不过他的面部特征一直不同寻常。
他面如死灰;眼睛大而清澈,明亮得无与伦比;嘴唇有点薄,颜色暗淡,但轮廓绝顶漂亮;鼻子是精致的希伯莱式样,鼻孔却大得离谱;下巴造型很好,但鲜有活力,并不引人注目;头发又软又薄,蛛网一样稀稀拉拉;这样的五官,再配上太阳穴上面异常宽阔的天庭,那容貌真是令人过目不忘。
容颜上的显著特征,脸上一贯流露的神情,只消有一点夸的地方,都会显得变化很大,如今与厄同处一室,我却生出了对面不相识的感觉。
眼前这苍白得可怕的肤色,明亮得出奇的眼睛,尤其让我惊愕,它们甚至吓倒了我。
那丝绸般柔滑的头发,也在不知不觉中,变长了,蛛丝一样纷乱,与其说是披拂在脸上,倒不如说飘飘扬扬来得贴切。
任我怎么努力,也无法从这副怪异神情里,找出正常人的影子了。
我一开始就觉出了朋友的一举一动既不连贯,也不协调。
很快我就发现,原来他的神经极度紧——他有着习惯性痉挛,他总想竭力克服这一点,却终是虚弱不堪,白费力气。
其实,对他这一特质我早就有思想准备:一是因为我看了他的信;二呢,我还记得他少年时代的某些脾性;其次,从他独特的身体状况和精神气质上,也可以做出推断。
他忽而精神高昂,忽而落落寡欢;他的声音上一刻还优柔寡断,抖抖颤颤(此时听来全无生气),下一刻马上就变得干脆有力。
那生硬、滞重、空洞、不疾不徐的吐字,沉闷、镇定、运用自如的发音,只能在沉湎酒香的醉汉或不可救药的烟鬼口中听到。
他们受了烟酒的剧烈刺激后,就是这么说话的。
他就那样谈着请我来的目的,说他如何诚心诚意地盼着我,希望我给他以慰藉。
他还相当详尽地谈到自以为得了什么病。
他说,这是种先天性的疾病,是家族遗传,他已经绝望了,不想再治疗了。
他马上又补充一句,这只是神经上的毛病,一准不久就过去了。
这种病的症状,从他诸多反常的情绪中可以看得出。
他一五一十全地告诉我了。
尽管他的措辞和叙述方式或许很有分量,但有些话我听了后,还是既感兴趣,又觉迷惑。
神经过敏把他折磨得不轻。
只吃得下寡淡无味的饭菜;只能穿某种质地的料子做的衣服;所有鲜花的香味都难以忍受;即便是微弱的光线,也会刺痛眼睛;惟有特殊的声音——弦乐,才不至于使他惊骇。
看得出,反常的恐惧已把他牢牢攫住。
“我要死了,”他说,“我肯定是死在这可悲的蠢病上。
是的,就是这样死去,没有别的选择。
我害怕将要发生的一切,怕是不是事情本身,而是结果。
一想到要出什么事儿,哪怕这事儿再微乎其微,也会使我精神不安,难以承受,免不了就会瑟瑟发抖。
说真的,我对危险并不憎恨,除了置身于它的绝对影响——恐怖之中。
在这精神不安的情况下——在这可怜的境地中,我觉得那样的时刻早晚都会到来,到时候,我定会在与恐惧的卡怕幻觉中,丧失生命和理智。
”此外,我还不时从他断断续续、意义含混的暗示中,得知了他精神上的另一个怪状。
他摆脱不了对多年未敢擅离的住宅的迷信看法。
他说,由于长期忍受,他家府邸的外表及实质上的特点,给他的心灵造成了影响。
他摆脱不了这种影响。
灰墙和塔楼的样子,映出灰墙和塔楼的暗沉沉的湖水,无不使影响到他的精神状态。
在想像这一影响的感染力时,他用词太模糊,我实在难以复述。
尽管一再踌躇,但他到底承认,追溯起来,如此折磨他的奇特的忧郁,多半来自一个更自然也更明显的原因,那就是,他心爱的妹妹一直重病缠身——其实眼下她就要死了。
多年来,妹妹就是他惟一的伴儿,是他在这世上的仅有的最后一个亲人。
“她一死,”他说,声音痛楚得让我永远都忘不掉,“厄榭家族就只剩一个了无希望的脆弱的人了。
”在他说话的当口,玛德琳小姐(别人就这么叫她的)远远地从房间走过,步子慢悠悠的,她根本没注意我,转眼间,已款款消失。
看见她,我心里吃惊得紧,还混杂着恐惧的感觉。
我发现,要想说得清个中原因,是不可能的。
我的目光追随着她远去的脚步,心头一时恍惚得很厉害。
当门最终在她身后关上时,出于本能,我急切地转眼去看她哥哥的神情,但他早用双手捂住了脸,只能看见那瘦骨嶙峋的十指比平常还要苍白,指缝间,热泪滚滚而下。
玛德琳小姐的病,早令她的那些医生黔驴技穷了。
她有种种异常的征候:根深蒂固的冷漠,身子一日日瘦损,短暂但频繁发作的类痫症那样的身体局部僵硬。
但她一直与疾病顽抗,并没有倒卧病榻。
可就在我到他们家的那个傍晚,她却向死神那摧枯拉朽的威力俯下了头颅。