复旦大学：《英美短篇小说 British and American Short Stories》学生课堂报告_The Black Cat

The Black cat Edgar Allan Poe 10300120201 杨 翻译系

The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe 10300120201 杨 晶 翻译系

Point of view--first-person narrative a condemned man an unreliable narrator Limited knowledge of all the events Better experience the psychological change of the narrator A good artistic effect

Point of view——first-person narrative • Limited knowledge of all the events • Better experience the psychological change of the narrator • A good artistic effect a condemned man an unreliable narrator

The Black cat Superstitions My wife, made frequent allusion to the ancient popular notion. which regarded all black cats as witches in disguise Pluto-the Roman god of the Underworld The first cat--evil The second cat--revenge/guilt

The Black Cat • Superstitions My wife, made frequent allusion to the ancient popular notion, which regarded all black cats as witches in disguise. • Pluto—the Roman god of the Underworld • The first cat—evil • The second cat—revenge/guilt

Symbols cuts Pluto s eye from its socket self-inflicted partial blindness to his own vision of moral goodness fire → almost complete moral disintegration the impression of pluto upon the unforgivable and incorrigible wall sin a large splotch of white the punishment ofevil ife goodness

Symbols • cuts Pluto’s eye from its socket • fire • the impression of Pluto upon the wall • a large splotch of white • wife almost complete moral disintegration self-inflicted partial blindness to his own vision of moral goodness unforgivable and incorrigible sin the punishment of evil goodness

Denouncement of Alcohol Our friendship lasted, in this manner, for several years, during which my general temperament and character -through the instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance -had (I blush to confess it) experienced a radical alteration for the worse But my disease grew upon me for what disease is like Alcohol! I again plunged into excess, and soon drowned in wine all memory of the deed

Denouncement of Alcohol • Our friendship lasted, in this manner, for several years, during which my general temperament and character - through the instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance - had (I blush to confess it) experienced a radical alteration for the worse. • But my disease grew upon me - for what disease is like Alcohol! • I again plunged into excess, and soon drowned in wine all memory of the deed

Art for art’ s Sake The intrinsic value of art. and the only true art, is divorced from any didactic, moral or utilitarian function

Art for Art’s Sake • The intrinsic value of art, and the only "true" art, is divorced from any didactic, moral or utilitarian function

Other interpretation H White southerners(reason) The black cat- black slaves(instinct

Other interpretation • I—— White southerners (reason) • The black cat—— black slaves (instinct)

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