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我推荐爱伦坡的短文The Cask of Amontillado
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Poe's "seriousness" seems to me indisputable in "The Cask of Amontillado," a tale which W.H.Auden has belittled.Far from being his author's mouthpiece,the narrator,Montresor,is one of the supreme examples in fiction of a deluded rationalist who cannot glimpse the moral implications of his planned folly.Poe's fine ironic sense makes clear that Montresor,the stalker of Fortu¬nato,is both a compulsive and pursued man; for in committing a flawless crime against another human being,he really (like Wilson and the protagonist in "The Tell-Tale Heart") commits the worst of crimes against himself.His reasoned,cool intelligence weaves an intricate plot which,while ostensibly satisfying his revenge,despoils him of humanity.His impeccably contrived murder,his weird mask of goodness in an enterprise of evil,and his abandonment of all his life-energies in one pet project of hate convict him of a madness which he mistakes for the inspiration of genius.The brilliant mas¬querade setting of Poe's tale intensifies the theme of Montresor's apparently successful duplicity;
Montresor's ironic appreciation of his own deviousness seems further to justify his arrogance of intel¬lect.[3] But the greatest irony of all,to which Montresor is never sensi¬tive,is that the injuries supposedly perpetrated by Fortunato are illusory and that the vengeance meant for the victim recoils upon Montresor himself.In immolating Fortunato,the narrator uncon¬sciously calls him the noble Fortunato and confesses that his own "heart grew sick." Though Montresor attributes this sickness to "the dampness of the catacombs," it is clear that his crime has begun to possess him.We see that,after fifty years,it remains the obsession of his life; the meaning of his existence resides in the tomb in which he has,symbolically,buried himself.In other words,Poe leaves little doubt that the narrator has violated his own mind and humanity,that the external act has had its destructive inner consequences.
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Poe's "seriousness" seems to me indisputable in "The Cask of Amontillado," a tale which W.H.Auden has belittled.Far from being his author's mouthpiece,the narrator,Montresor,is one of the supreme examples in fiction of a deluded rationalist who cannot glimpse the moral implications of his planned folly.Poe's fine ironic sense makes clear that Montresor,the stalker of Fortu¬nato,is both a compulsive and pursued man; for in committing a flawless crime against another human being,he really (like Wilson and the protagonist in "The Tell-Tale Heart") commits the worst of crimes against himself.His reasoned,cool intelligence weaves an intricate plot which,while ostensibly satisfying his revenge,despoils him of humanity.His impeccably contrived murder,his weird mask of goodness in an enterprise of evil,and his abandonment of all his life-energies in one pet project of hate convict him of a madness which he mistakes for the inspiration of genius.The brilliant mas¬querade setting of Poe's tale intensifies the theme of Montresor's apparently successful duplicity;
Montresor's ironic appreciation of his own deviousness seems further to justify his arrogance of intel¬lect.[3] But the greatest irony of all,to which Montresor is never sensi¬tive,is that the injuries supposedly perpetrated by Fortunato are illusory and that the vengeance meant for the victim recoils upon Montresor himself.In immolating Fortunato,the narrator uncon¬sciously calls him the noble Fortunato and confesses that his own "heart grew sick." Though Montresor attributes this sickness to "the dampness of the catacombs," it is clear that his crime has begun to possess him.We see that,after fifty years,it remains the obsession of his life; the meaning of his existence resides in the tomb in which he has,symbolically,buried himself.In other words,Poe leaves little doubt that the narrator has violated his own mind and humanity,that the external act has had its destructive inner consequences.