THE GOTHICISM OF “THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO”
《一桶阿蒙蒂拉酒》中的哥特主义
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements………………………………………………………………………i
Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………ii
Outline………………………………………………………………………….………iii
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Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………12
Acknowledgments
There is no denying that it is a tremendous challenge for me, an undergraduate majoring in English, to do rearch and write a rearch paper in English and English related academic areas. However, thanks to numerous people’s tireless efforts, this paper has eventually come to fruition.
interfaceMy first acknowledgements should go to all the professors and teachers of Foreign Language School, who have ever taught me throughout the four years’ undergraduate life, for without their careful and responsible teaching, I would not have acquired the knowledge needed for this academic task.
My heart-felt gratitude also goes to my tutor, Mr. Chen Caiyi, who has taught me, in detail, how to make the rearch paper preparation and compilation. His preciness and passion in teaching and rearch impresd me a lot, especially in the area of translation. Owing to his insightful guidance and comment on my paper as well as patient revising, the completion of this paper is made possible.
I am particularly indebted to Mr. Chen Bo who has given me a lot of guidance, assistance and concern. He has imparted to me so much valuable knowledge that will benefit me a whole lifetime.
No less gratitude should be given to my parents for their four years’ constant overall support, without which I would fail in realizing my university dream.
Finally, I give my sincere thinks to my dear friends and fellow students, who have accompanied me throughout the four years at the university, sharing sadness and happiness with me and teaching me a lot of things. Our friendship is always a treasure and a driving force to me.
Abstract
Edgar Allan Poe is a writer who establishes a new school in the American history of literature. He firstly and consciously takes the short story as an independent literature style, advances his own composing theory of short stories and applies it to his composition of Gothic stories. “The Cask of Amontillado” is a classic example of Edgar Allan Poebody shop’s gothic in a world like thisstories. Although this story is very short but it has tight structure and deep indication which integrate Allan Poe’s excellent artistic writing skills. Through the pro
cess of drunk是什么意思shaping gothic characters and scenes by typical gothic elements布莱恩疯狂英语, the dark side of human nature are explored.
Key words: Allan Poe; Gothic Story; Gothicism; Terror; Darkness
摘要
埃德加·爱伦·坡是美国文学史上创立过全新流派的一位作家。他是有意识的将短篇故事作为独立流派对待的第一人，发展了他自己的短篇故事创作理论并运用到了他哥特故事的创作中。《一桶阿蒙蒂拉酒》是埃德加·爱伦·坡哥特故事中的经典例子。虽然这个故事很短，但结构紧凑，深刻并完整的体现了爱伦·坡高超的写作技巧。在利用典型的哥特元素塑造哥特角色和场景的过程中，爱伦·坡对人性中的黑暗面也进行了探索。
关键词：爱伦·坡，哥特故事，哥特主义，恐怖，黑暗
Outline
Title: The Gothicism of “The Cask of Amontillado”
quintus什么意思大流星Thesis statement: Through the study of “The Cask of Amontillado” which was a classic gothic novel that embodied the composition theory of Adger Allan Poe, this paper will analyze the function of gothic elements and discuss the possible reasons of Allan Poe’ s fondness of gothicism.
(Key words: Adger Allan Poe; Gothic Story; Gothicism; Terror; Darkness )
Outline:
I. Introduction
II. Analysis of gothic elements
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A.The Theme of Revenge
B. An Old Castle with an Underground Catacomb
C. Murder
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D. Atmosphere
III. The Reasons of Adger Allan Poe’ s Fondness of Gothicism
A. Influenced by Europe Gothic Literature tradition
B. Having his own composing theory.
C. Wanting to expo the darkness of human nature.
IV. Conclusion
The Gothicism of “The Cask of Amontillado”
Ⅰ.Introduction
A. Gothic Literature
Gothic novel was born in England from around late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The word Gothic had come to means wild,barbarous and crude. This newborn genre began with Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto, which told us a very thrilling story in a mysterious medieval castle. The subtitle of this very first gothic novel was “ A Gothic Story”. Therefore the subquent novels with similar elements to The Castle of Otranto were collectively called Gothic Novel. As a matter of fact, Gothic Novel has its broad and narrow n. In the narrow n, Gothic Novel referred only to the eighteenth century’s England gothic novels. At that time, there were many remarkable works but two of them stood out above the rest, Ann Radcliffe’s 英国驻华使馆The Mysteries of Udolpho and Matthew Lewis’ The Monk. While in the broad n, it refers to novels containing tho unique gothic elements[Wikipedia,2014]. Generally, Gothic Literature gives the readers impressions of mystery, darkness and dread which is filled with contents of violence, death, murder, revenge and so on. The tting of Gothic Literature is always very eerie. The story usually takes place in a dark and cret place and the surrounding environment is often dread and scary producing a feeling of terror in the readers through t
he suspensive atmosphere depicted deliberately by the author. And the unfortunate end is an indispensable element too. The eternal theme of Gothic Literature is death to which Allan Poe preferred very much.
