The Fall of the House of Usher pdf

埃德加爱伦坡是美国著名诗人和小说家。他具有非凡的诗歌和文学天赋；他从五岁开始阅读和写诗，这让他的老师们感到惊讶，在他的一生中，写作是他的避风港和避风港。他从被征召入伍开始以“艾伦·贝瑞”的笔名出版他的诗歌，然后继续他的文学创作。除了他的诗歌，他还有一个独特的故事作品，这使他成为所谓的“哥特恐怖文学”的创始人，其中充满了故事和故事。公元 1849 年，“阿波”死于一个可怜的债务人，年仅 40 岁，那是在他因残忍和痛苦而深爱的年轻妻子去世两年后。

The Fall of the House of Usher pdf 爱伦坡

The story begins with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking for his help. Although Poe wrote this short story before the invention of modern psychological science, Roderick's condition can be described according to its terminology. It includes a form of sensory overload known as hyperesthesia (hypersensitivity to light, sounds, smells, and tastes), hypochondria (an excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness), and acute anxiety. It is revealed that Roderick's twin sister, Madeline, is also ill and falls into cataleptic, deathlike trances. The narrator is impressed with Roderick's paintings, and attempts to cheer him by reading with him and listening to his improvised musical compositions on the guitar. Roderick tells the narrator that he believes the house he lives in to be alive, and that this sentience arises from the arrangement of the masonry and vegetation surrounding it…