《厄舍府崩塌记》中的原型解读

Archetype in The Fall of the House of Usher

《厄舍府崩塌记》是心灵恐怖大师埃德加·爱伦·坡的经典之作 ,小说力图体现主人公人格的分裂和瓦解过程。对于故事中的第一人称叙事者以及对应着玛德莲破棺还魂这一情节的中世纪传奇《疯狂的遭遇》 ,学者们一般认为那只是作者为了制造恐怖气氛而采用的文学手段。按照荣格及纽尔曼的原型理论 ,叙事者和《疯狂的遭遇》不仅是全文的有机构成 。

The Fall of the House of Usher is a classic of the master of psychological horror Edgar Allan Poe. It depicts the mental disintegration and collapse of the protagonist. The parallelism between the medieval legend The Mad Trist and the return of Madeline from her crypt is often taken as a somewhat clumsy literary device that rather spoils the effect of the tale. Similarly, the narrator is usually consigned to the residual category of literary device. However, the interpretation of the tale in terms of the archetype theory of Jung and Neumann shows that both narrator and The Mad Trist are not only integral parts of the story but essential to a full understanding of it.