In Edgar Allan Poe’s novel, the protagonists often live under the dual pressure of physical death and spiritual fear, no matter how hard they try, it is difficult to escape the ashes ending。 Physical death is irresistible, but people can’t defeat the fear of death。 All these made people who are in trouble feel difficult breathing and struggling, meanwhile endure tremendous physical and mental torture。 This kind of pain bring by the shadow of death even more unacceptable than death itself。 The death theme in Poe’s novel is not a simple object or a complete expression of his Gothic style。 In Poe’s horror novel, simple death was replaced by reincarnation and born to die。 The endless soul and lingering body reveals Edgar Allan Poe’s faith and perseverance for life in the traditional absurd。 Gothic novels tend to touch people’s intrinsic mind distorted by agony and disillusion with a perfect combination of beauty and horror。 And all these are the recurrent and indispensable elements in establishing Poe’s prevalent terror, which is strong enough to shake readers’ interior feelings。 Readers can find that Poe has an astonishingly strong, twisted and weird power of imagination which is quite bewildering。 He believed that death never meant the end of life and disappearance but the freedom and liberation of soul as if the same as Buddhist Nirvana。 The world beyond death is more likely an Eden for him, while the fear and suffering of awaiting death is a test for human into another world, and it is the only way to do so。 Human soul can be purified and beyond the real world once going through the test。 For this purpose, Edgar Allan Poe faces and fights against death in his novels。来:自[优E尔L论W文W网www.chuibin.com +QQ752018766-

III。 Analysis of Narration Strategy 

The terror atmosphere in Poe’s novel is not exterior, but permeates from the inside to the outside。 His work is unique and a profound exploration on human mental conditions。 Despite his novels are horrible, his vivid and proficient narrative skills are deeply loved by readers。 The usage of first-person narrative is in favor of a profound analysis of the hero's inner world。 The elegant and careful choice of words exaggerates atmosphere effectively。 Poe has repeatedly stressed that, “in such a short story literary form, each event, each detail of the description, even each word or sentence is to serve for the unity of preconceived effect and impressionism effect。” The repetition of certain details and some representative images increase readers fear and add a third dimension to the story。 All these writing techniques have formed Poe’s narration strategy。