英美文学论文.doc

南方医科大学
外国语学院 2010学年(秋)季学期考试
2009年级英语双学位
《英美文学》论文考核答卷
论文标题 The death and beauty in The Fall of the House of Usher
姓名王浩文
学号 113200880200010
专业电子信息工程
班级二班

2010年11月30日
The death and beauty in The Fall of the House of Usher
WANG Hao-wen
(School of Foreign Language, Southern Medical University; Guangzhou Guangdong)
Abstract: The Fall of the House of Usher is one of Edgar Allan Poe's famous horror novels, and it embodies Poe's writing theory. It's a kind of abnormal aesthetics which putting beauty into death. Death is written in a forceful hand in Poe's story. Beauty is the flower es out of the ghastly terrorist atmosphere and thrilling of death.
-The Fall of the House of Usher; abnormal aesthetics; death; beauty
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the famous writers of America in 19th century. As e Bernard Shaw said that there are two great writers in America, they are Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain.[1] There are a lot of descriptions about death by sound, colors, emotions and psychology in Poe’s story which brings a forceful senses and heart shock. This kind of es from human’s repelling to death of the subconscious.[2] Death is the ending of life, but in Edgar Allan Poe’s story death is another kind of beauty.
Here we analysis this kind of beauty from the following five field.
1. The specific atmosphere of death.
From the very beginning of the story Poe bring r