现代人的精神困境——论爱伦·坡短篇小说中的死亡主题

The Spiritual Plight of Modern People: Death Sheme of Allan Poe's Short Stories

爱伦·坡的很多短篇小说都都弥漫着一种死亡气息,描述了噩梦般的精神世界。其死亡主题主要通过活埋、谋杀和死亡三个情节来体现,活埋象征了人的精神困境,谋杀则是一种自我救赎,死亡是为了寻求自我解脱,这种心灵式恐怖和现代主义文学所描述的现代人的精神困境不谋而合。

Many of Allan Poe＇s short stories are enveloped in an atmosphere of death, describes the nightmare of the spiritual world. The death theme in his works is reflected mainly through the three episodes： alive bury, mur- der and death. Alive bury symbolizes the plight of the human spirit, murder is a s;lf-salvation, while death is to seek self-liberation. The spiritual horror demonstrated in Poe＇s death theme coincides with the spiritual plight of modern people described in the modern literature; his view on death is, therefore, undoubtedly ahead.