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埃德加·爱伦·坡(Edgar Allan Poe),作品The Cast of the Amontillado
Poor for all his life, miserable, most works morose, gloomy, pessimistic characters: Fortunato: arrogant, self-centered, reckless Montresor: seemingly 'humble''considerate', but actually brutal, calm and smart The theme of this story is generally thought as: Revenge is the main theme of the story and the force that drives Montresor mit the horrible murder of Fortunato. His first words in the story speak of it: "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge." The idea of revenge is repeated several times in the opening paragraph. Montresor will not rush to act, he says, but "at length I would be avenged"; he is determined to "not only punish, but punish with impunity."

拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生(Ralph Waldo Emerson).The leader and spokesman of 'Transcendentalism' Self-Reliance Emerson writing style was a believed that the natural world held spiritual truths, and an optimistic view of the human spirit.
纳撒尼尔·霍桑(Nathaniel Hawthorne) Writer of Contradiction and Duality 作品 The Scarlet Letter 《红字》character :Hester 女丁梅斯代尔(Dimmesdale)mitted the unpardonable sin-the violation of human heart. On the one hand, Hawthorne advocates Puritan life-style and creates characters punished by the their own hearts to warn people against breaching th