TheCaskofAmontillado阿芒提拉多的酒桶课题.ppt

Lizzie Kelsey Edgar Allen Poe Poes best known fiction works are Gothic, a genre he followed to appease the public taste. His most recurring(repeated) themes deal with questions of death, including its physical signs, the reanimation of the dead, and mourning. Many of his works are generally considered part of the dark romanticism genre, a literary reaction to transcendentalism, which Poe strongly disliked. The Excerpt of Beginning The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed(发誓) revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good will. I continued, as was my wont(习惯), to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation(死亡). Montresor encountered Fortunato at dusk, one evening during the madness of the carnival season when Fortunato was drunk, dizzy, and wearing a jesters motley(小丑穿的杂色花衣). Montresor lured Fortunato into vaults by saying My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. How remarkably well you are looking today. But I have received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado, and I have my doubts. How? said he. Amontillado? A pipe? Impossible! And in the middle of the carnival! I have my doubts, I replied; and I was silly enough to pay the full Amontillado price without consulting you in the matter. You were not to be found, and I was fearful of losing a bargain. Amontillado! I have my doubts. Amontillado! And I must satisfy them. Amontillado! As you are engaged, I am on my way to Luchresi. If any one has a critical turn it is he. He will tell me - Luchresi cannot tell Amontillado from Sherry. And yet some fools will have it that his taste is a match for your own. Come, let us go. Whither? To your vaults. My friend, no; I will not i