文学评论之一桶蒙特亚的白葡萄酒

第一篇：文学评论之一桶蒙特亚的白葡萄酒

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Name: Wei Yun

Character Analysis of The Cask of Amontillado

Abstract: The theme was revealed through the analysis of the two protagonists‟ characters.Fortunato‟s arrogance,fatuity are embodied in his language, behaviour and appearance.As to Montresor, his obduracy is vividly displayed step by step in his “perfect” plan, he has lost the basic humanity, he is the victim of the industrial society.Key Words: character, arrogant, obduracy, warning, downfall

The Cask of Amontillado is a short story indited by Edgar Allan Poe, a famous American novelist, poet and essayist.The story tells us a cliff-hanging revenge process, which involves two protagonists.Fortunato, the victim of the plan, is extremely arrogant, astrut and fatuous;Montresor, the avenger and the hatcher of the plan, is over-rational and marblehearted.Through depicting the two typical characters, Poe aims at warning the modern people that the high-developed industrial society is bringing people to downfall and final perdition.I would like to put Fortunato in the first place to analyze.One important aspect of his character is arrogance.The first mention of him is indirect description, from Montresor‟s narration, we get to know that Fortunato‟s weak point-he prides himself on his connoisseur in wine.We can imagine how self-conceited Fortunato is through this artful description.And this is rightly proved in the language description in the following.“Let us go, nevertheless.The cold is merely nothing.Amontillado!You have been imposed upon.And as for Luchesi, he cannot distinguish Sherry from Amontillado.” When Montresor tempts him with Amontillado and mentions another connoisseur of wine Luchesi deliberately, Fortunato is so eager to display himself that is easily caught with chaff.He even vilipends Luchesi to show his sovereign ability.We could see that he is immersed in his arrogance and is totally driven by it.And there is also an ironic description, I notice that every time they meet some obstacle in the vaults, Montresor will mention Luchesi and Fortunato immediately forgets anything and moves on resolutely.It is his hubris that leads him to his tomb, step by step.Another obvious character of Fortunato is fatuity.We can see from the novel that the first direct description of him is about his appearance.“The man wore motley.He had on a tight-fitting parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells.” Striped dress is often the symble of the prisoner or psychopath, also he has bells on his conical cap, and these are all sighs of a fool and indicated Fortunato‟s hebetudes.I notice that at the end of the novel, Fortunato mentions his wife, he calls her „Lady Fortunato‟, and we can tell that he is an aristocrat in the society.However, when he gets Montresor‟s vaults, he puts up his ignorance of Montresor‟s large family and their arms.This also indicates his fatuity.At last, he is a person devoid of good education.We can tell this from his language, he vilipends Luchesi when he fears that Luchesi might take away his opportunity to display.Fortunato is typical in his time, he dies of his sovereign pride endowed by the high-developed industrial civilization.Then is the character analysis of Montresor, the designer and executant of the perfect revenge plan.First of all, it is about his obduracy.In the very beginning of the novel is the vivid psychological description of Montresor.From his determined and confident tone, we can feel that he has no sense of sympathy in his heart.Furthermore, from his reveng goal, “I must not only punish, but punish with impunity.A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong”, we can sense he has lost his basic human nature and merely treats this revenge as a game.In addition, at the climax of the story, when he hears Fortunato‟s struggling sound on the wall he is locked, Montresor even feels more satisfied.And when he hears the durative screaming, he merely hesitates and trembles for a brief moment before he continues his brickwork again.Thus, he has completely lost the humanity and the basic right to be a real human.Montresor is also good at scheming, we can easily see his outstanding sense from the following details.Firstly, at the beginning of his narration, we learn that he still smiles to Fortunato when he is determined to kill him, for fear of arousing Fortunato‟s suspicion.Then, he chooses the perfect time-the carnival season, during which people are all busy making merry and all of them are in different costumes.This is splendiferous cover for his murder.Moreover, he is quite aware of Fortunato‟s weak point and takes advantage of it quite well.He uses Amontillado to tempt Fortunato and stimulates him with the implicit threat, Luchesi.The last detail I would like to mention here is the way he dispels his servants.He tells them he won‟t come back until the next morning, he knows it is enough to ensure their fleeing since it is the carnival season.In order to avoid their suspicion and insure his innocence, he also orders them not to stir from the house.How flawless his great plan is!Thus, Montresor‟s character is displayed before us incisively and vividly.In fact, he buries himself at the same time he finished Fortunato‟s life in his vaults.His heart has been enwrapped by pure concept of sense and becomes its slave, he loses the basic qualities as a human, he cannot find the significance of life anymore and he loses the right and ability to enjoy life.Through depicting the two typical characters in the industrial society, Poe gives people who are immersed in the development of science and technology a alarming warning, he warns them to be prudent about the high-developed industrial civilization.It may not bring people to the bright future as they imagined, on the contrary, it may deprive people‟s emotions and humanity insensibly and make people arrogant or over-rational, then fretful, confused and even desperate.It may lead people to downfall in the end.

第二篇：《献给艾米丽的玫瑰花》及《一桶白葡萄酒》文学评论

Review of a Rose for Emily

A Rose for Emily is a very popular short story because of its style, climax, and plot.The author, William Faulkner, was a Southern writer from Oxford, Mississippi.Faulkner bases this story on the tale of Oxford's aristocracy Miss Mary Neilson.She married Captain Jack Hume, the charming Yankee foreman of a street-paving crew, over her family's shocked protests.The style of this story is false romance.Miss Emily's father, before his death, would run off every man that tried to court her.Because of this, she felt any man she loved would leave her.After falling in love with Homer Baron, she feared he would run off like the others.To keep this from happening, she poisoned him and kept his body upstairs in the bedroom.The climax focuses on the room where the corpse was found.After Miss Emily's death, the town people were cleaning up the house and found a room that was locked.They had to break down the door.To their surprise, they found Homer Baron's corpse lying in the bed dressed in a night shirt.As the story progresses there is no indication that he had died.When they found the toilet things sitting on the dresser with initials H.B., it was well known that the corpse was Homer Baron.I first thought it was her father in the bed, but I realized that her father was

already buried.I then knew it had to be her lover.I cringed on the thought of what she did while she was lying next to the corpse.Finally, the end of this story surrounds a woman's life from her mid twenties until her death at the age of seventy-four.It describes a prominent lady of a town who led a private life.I learned, while reading this story that this woman is crazy and had the mind of a child.She seemed to lose everything she loved.But I still have a question.The question is “Where is the rose in the A Rose for Emily?” Emily was never given a rose, even when she died there was no mention of a rose.In the story the only time a scented thing was mentioned was lime to cover a smell.Emily like the insinuated rose is never present in the story.Even when Emily has a line of dialog it is spoken thought the filter of the narrator’s perspective.The narrator or the town is concerned with what role Emily is playing, although since Emily is not present in the story, but through hearsay, the reader has to decipher between the roll assigned to her by the narrator and actuality of the role Emily fulfills.Everyone went to Emily’s funeral.No one went to the funeral out of respect for the dead.Emily became a person known only though hearsay between town folk.No one knew Emily.“Women went out of curiosity to see the inside of her house.” The women went to the funeral to fill a gap.In a time where entertainment wasn’t prevalent, Emily became the late night drama and sole topic of conversation for the town.The town did not morn, the person, Emily they mourned the personified topic of conversation.The town paid respect to the topic that took up time in their conversations.The town saw Emily as inseparable from what she was.The town saw Emily as, “…a small, fat woman in black…” as opposed to a woman with a small skeleton.The town could not separate the Emily they knew from the Emily that was present.The juxtaposition was fused into the town’s notion of Emily.The druggist must have seen a hint of Emily’s shift in personality.The druggist either did not care about Emily or wanted her dead.The druggist gave her the poison thinking the probability that she was going to kill herself was likely.The druggist didn’t even consider another possibility before spreading the rumor to the town.The druggist would not have given up the poison to Emily before her father died, but now Emily was the same one the town sighed, “…Poor Emily…” for.Emily was a lady when her father was alive.Emily is only a lady, because of who her father was.She is a lady out of only legacy.The narrator knows what Emily did, yet the narrator sympathies with Emily up till the end trick the reader into sympathizing along with the story.In the end the reader and the narrator know Emily is a lady no longer, not

only because she is now dead but because she killed and kept a corpse for cuddling.Ladies don’t cuddle with corpses, but up until the discovery of the corpse Emily remained a lady in the eyes of the town.“They waited until Miss Emily was decently in the ground before…” the town opened the door to the room Emily was keeping her corpse.The town waited because they knew they were going to find something off kilter in that room.Something which could and eventually force change on their opinion of Emily, the town did not wanted to keep what they knew about Emily while she was alive separate from what they knew about her when she was dead.Upon the discovery of the body the fused juxtaposition the town carried with them was removed from their notion of Emily.Neither, the reader or the narrator can relate the Emily at the end of the story to the Emily that existed to hinted ideas of who Emily was before events of the story.There is no reconciliation between the two Emily’s.They share different traits.The first, being the lady, the father’s daughter.The second Emily being an off kilter person struggling with craziness the only way she knows how.But because the story is not written from Emily’s perspective the reader cannot see the shift into craziness directly until the end and is left wondering with the narrator what caused Emily to defy my notion of what a lady is supposed to be?

In the end the “Rose” for Emily is just as absent from the story as Emily herself.Emily is portrayed in flickers between the town folk’s skewed options about her, about her house, about her life style and about her choice in bed room arrangements.The lady Emily reveals two things about herself though out the story, she doesn’t like to pay taxes, and she is willing to kill and keep a corpse around.Creating an option based upon what Emily reveals about herself, it’s safe to say Emily was never a lady, and never thought of herself as a lady.Reference Brooks, Cleanth and Roert Penn Warren.Understanding Fiction, 2nd ed.New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc, 1959:351 Roberts, Diane.Faulkner and Southern womanhood, Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1994:158 Olga W.Vicky.The Novels of William Faulkner: A Critical Appraisal [M].Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964

Review of the Cask of Amontillado

The Cask of Amontillado is a daring story by the ever-famous Edgar Allen Poe that shows the pain of hate and desire for revenge.Remember always though to not forget the Golden Rule and that prideful reaping will only bring about to you a large and painful fall.Many people have wanted to gain revenge but for a man to say that he is to conduct his action of revenge with full intention of making justice in one’s own mind is an accusation of pure madness.But what could one possibly do to receive such hate from another? The question is a mystery but you can’t tell me you aren’t interested about Poe’s story so please sit back and let me tell you about why it is so good.Poe makes his point clear in the Cask of Amontillado by his amazing use of literary elements such as plot, setting, and foreshadowing.Poe uses one the very planning parts of a story to tell his tail in an amazing way through the literary element of plot.Stories can have very strong, light, and any combination of types of plots.The Cask of Amontillado has a strong plot.The Story lines up in the plot perfectly.There is an explanation of why the character is wanting to get revenge fills strongly to act upon the other character.Montresor the narrator is seeking revenge after Fortunato who is the other large character in the story.His introduction starts saying，“The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.” The intention of your main character is clearly stated although reason is not;you have no doubt from the vocabulary that he is greatly offended.Then actions that follow bring about ability to carry out, but can he struggle past himself in morality, and can he struggle against his adversary to achieve his objectives? Poe uses the knowledge he possesses to carry his idea to the max and then fall into the next part of the story giving succession and strong plot to follow.He doesn’t introduce you with a setting but in the actions and the climax he uses foreshadowing and setting to assist the conducting of his plot properly.With the use of his plot he also teaches you the theme of the story, that you ultimately reap what you sow.For a story to really teach a life lesson in the theme of the story the author has to stay focused on his message and the idea while he is carrying out the actual actions of the story.It takes the entire story working together for it to be a success, and to me a successful story cannot be written unless you have to pay attention to every aspect to fully understand it.The characters are realistic and there is a proven sense of seriousness throughout the story and Poe’s extensive understanding of plot and use of it proves all of this.If you are to see the revenge in a story you have to have a serious

mood, that of hate, at the beginning and on into the conflict.Then you see the madness created and the climax will show if the revenge is truly a success or a failure that all results of over flooded hatred.“Nemo me impune lacessit”, or in English no one attacks me with impunity could be a statement of assurance or a statement of ignorant pride.When you read The Cask of Amontillado remember to first look at the plot that is used Edgar Allen Poe.You can’t very well carry out a nursery rhythm in a dark mansion or a horror story in the sunny beautiful place that one would enjoy frolicking because setting is another vital part of an author’s success in his/her story.Poe is an author that fully understood this element and used it also wisely.If you think of revenge you think of dark sinister thoughts.A story of revenge has a setting of scary eeriness and one that would cause fear because revenge is not a warm cuddly area and in composing a short story Poe knew that where the story took place was a vital piece of the puzzle and you can see that from these quotes I would like to pull out of the story: ·

“..., bowed him through several suites of rooms to the archway that led into the vaults.I passed down a long and winding staircase, requesting him to be cautious as he followed.We came at length to the foot of the descent, and stood together upon the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors.”

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“Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris...From the fourth side the bones had been thrown down, and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size...It seemed to have been constructed for no especial use within itself, but formed merely the interval between two of the colossal supports of the roof of the catacombs, and was back by one of their circumscribing walls of solid granite.”

Setting pulls you in the story, and make inferences, and gives you a sign of foreshadowing on the events to follow.Symbolism is a big element that lies right within the barriers of setting and gives symbolism of things to come.The settings presented in these two quotes of the story show you signs of death and evil by describing objects surrounding, colors, and even the setup of the setting itself.You can’t tell your story and have it make any sense if you don’t have the proper setting.Poe also uses foreshadowing along with his uses of plot and setting to bring across his message and to make this story one that you will read and enjoy.A well-written horror story has to have suspense or it just doesn’t give you that jumpy or that scared feeling.Poe brings to you in this story foreshadowing and that creepy suspenseful feeling.This is hard for a writer to do but Poe does it anyway with such a way that just makes his story much better.Look again at the setting quotes that I brought out of

the story and you can see the coming of death and misery but you aren’t able to see the result of the conflict because while he gives you sign of the defiant success of the main character Poe doesn’t let you know quite yet because he throws in shadows of doubt and questioning.In Poe’s use of foreshadowing he also used the plot to aid the device by letting some of the major rising action be direct foreshadowing events to use the two device as one and enlighten ideas of mystery.You read the story trying to break it apart because you want to know if Montressor will succeed in quest of receiving revenge, but you just can’t see for it to happen or to not happen.You can see how just in these three elements I mentioned that Poe molded together and let each literary device hold up the other.But why would an author feel so strongly to write a story of revenge and it was just an act of justice? Edgar Allen Poe lived a very short and tragic life that was compiled by attributes of dislike, loneliness, and death of the few people that he allowed himself to get close to and love.Poe had to experience a lot of self-conflict that defiantly pushed him to his all and all.He had a list problems compelled that consisted of gambling, drugs, alcohol, and constant depression because he could not take revenge on the thing that caused him the most pain and that was fait itself.Everyone he loved was taken by the incurable(at the time)disease of tuberculosis.I believe that this story was Poe’s way of saying he didn’t know how to

deal with the inability to take revenge on his opposing force, which was fait.He seemed to hurt himself to an unreal level by taking into his life things like gambling(which he probably might have at a time was what he compared to life), drinking(to probably forget his pain), and maybe drugs(because he would probably seek a realm that had to be better than the reality that he lived in).He begins this story, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.” I don’t know the approximate time that Edgar Allen Poe wrote this story but it was probably a time that he may had thought of suicide or even before he was found dead with alcohol in his system on a street corner.It seems that Poe could obviously not take revenge on fate and had no one to blame so he took out the bubbling hurt and made himself his own source of source of pain which would be his life itself and his own identity his outlet because he felt shut out from others because everyone he had loved left him in death.Some authors seek an inspiration for their writings but I believe that Poe just expressed his life and experiences and that is why he is notorious for his horror stories, scary isn’t it.I have given and supported my opinion to you as best to my ability and I know that when you read this story you will enjoy.Remember when you read to get the message that something is trying to teach you and after you enjoy a piece break it down in your mind.Poe used his ability to

express himself in this story through the use of the literary element devices of setting, plot, and foreshadowing made it the story for me.I give The Cask of Amontillado my ballot and would venture to say that it is an example of how a short story should be written.Reference Benton, Richard P.“Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado': Its Cultural and Historical Backgrounds.” Poe Studies 29.1(June 1996): 19-27.Bonaparte, Marie.The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Psycho-Analytic Interpretation.London: Hogarth, 1971.Davidson, Edward Hutchins.Poe, A Critical Study.Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957.

第三篇：埃里克森赢球证明可以冲亚冠 冰桶挑战别找我

埃里克森赢球证明可以冲亚冠 冰桶挑战别找我北京时间8月24日19:30，广州富力队在主场广州越秀山体育场3-1击败长春亚泰队，上半场比赛广州富力队先落后一球，但随后主裁判陈钢判给广州富力队两个点球，达维没有浪费机会，下半场姜志鹏的世界波，3-1广州富力队主场赢球。

赛后新闻发布会上，广州富力队主教练埃里克森在谈到本场比赛时说：“我觉得晚上的结果很公平，上半场踢得不错，下半场亚泰加强进攻，长传球和定位球威胁我们，但我们防守做得不错，取得胜利。”

本场比赛哈默德没有进大名单是什么原因呢？埃里克森会如何评价今天打入世界波的姜至鹏呢？埃里克森说：“进球非常精彩，训练中他也会加练，也会有远射破门，今天能够打出来非常不错。哈默德在昨天训练后，经过队医检查，还是不能上场比赛，他膝盖有积水，下周希望恢复打大连的比赛，不过我们也不确定，因为他是膝盖内侧韧带受伤，跑直线没有问题，变向跑还不行。”

因为昨天上海上港赢球了，中超亚冠的竞争很激烈。这场比赛对富力有什么特殊意义？

埃里克森回应道：“大家都知道上一场0-4惨败建业，虽然可能有场地原因，但输4球也太过了，今天的比赛证明我们还是有能力征战亚冠的，会继续努力前进。”

埃里克森是如何调整队员的心态，在0-1落后的情况下扳回来的？埃里克森说：“我觉得我们队伍整体实力不错，上一场防守不好，尝试打长传进攻但很容易丢掉，证明我们还不适合这种打法。今天的表现不错，说明我们还是可以尝试打技术足球。”

最近风靡全球的“冰桶挑战”，富力也有球员参加，应该没有人点名埃里克森先生吧？埃里克森个人怎么评价这个活动？埃里克森表示，还没有人点名我，但我觉得非常冰凉，希望不要有人点我。

张耀坤在比赛中头部受伤，已经被紧急送往医院，他目前受伤情况如何？埃里克森说：“张耀坤上半场被对方侵犯了，需要缝针，具体情况还要看明天的情况。”