A cast of amontillado赏析
英美文赏析
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 to commit 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 Transcendentalist.they believed that the natural world held spiritual truths,and an optimistic view of the human spiri
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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）he committed the unpardonable sin-the violation of human heart.On the one hand,Hawthorne advocates Puritan life-style and creates characters punished by the society.and their own hearts to warn people against breaching the iginal sin Sin and knowledge are linked in the Judeo-Christian tradition.in results in expulsion and suffering.Hester and Dimmesdale contemplate their own sinfulness on a daily basis and try to reconcile it with their lived experiences.The Puritan elders,on the other hand,insist on seeing earthly experience as merely an obstacle on the path to heaven.Thus,they view sin as a threat to the community that should be punished and suppressed.The scarlet letter is meant to be a symbol of shame,but instead it becomes a powerful symbol of identity to Hester.The letter’s meaning shifts as time passes.Originally intended to mark Hester as an adulterer,the“A”eventually comes to stand for“Able.”Finally,it becomes indeterminate:the Native Americans who come to watch the Election Day pageant think it marks her as a pe
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马克·吐温（Mark Twain）《卡城名蛙》The Celebrated Frog of Calaveras County miley,he says,was"uncommon lucky,"and had a reputation for betting on anything he could:horse races,dog fights,and even which of two birds sitting on a fence would fly first.His broken-down old nag somehow always managed to win races when Smiley bet on her.Smiley,Wheeler goes on,once caught a frog,which he named Dan'l Webster,and trained him to jump.And that frog was a remarkable jumper,beating out any frog brought from near and far to challenge him.One day a stranger came to the mining camp Smiley wagered$40 that his frog could outjump any other in Calaveras County.Since the stranger had no frog,Smiley went out to find.