MS. Found in a BottleBy Edgar Allan Poe

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• Jan19, 1809 – October 7, 1849

• in Boston, Massachusetts

• an American author, poet, editor and literary critic

• considered part of the American Romantic Movement

• Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre（ "The Black Cat" ， "The Tell-Tale Heart" ）

about the author:Edgar Allan Poe

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style and genre

• horror fiction • detective fiction• science fiction （ Ms.found in a bottle ）genre

• horror • Gothic• dark romanticismmost recurring themes

• questions of death• premature burial• pseudosciences• the reanimation of the dead

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summary

An unnamed narrator, sail as a passenger aboard a cargo ship from Batavia .

• The ship is hit by a storm that capsizes the ship and sends everyone except the narrator and an old Swede overboard.

• The narrator's ship eventually collides with a gigantic black galleon,

• The narrator finds those elderly crewmen on the galleon very strange; he steals writing materials from the captain's cabin to keep a journal (the "manuscript" of the title) which he resolves to cast into the sea

• At the end ， The ship sank into the sea and the article abruptly ends here.

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Technique

（ 1 ） FOR horror

1.isolated and horrifying setting

2.color techniques

3.metaphpor and personification

4.mystery ， ominous feelings （ repetition of them also ）

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1.different tense

2.contrast

FORsense of reality and tension

Technique

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isolated setting ： no one to talk with• the only "companion" didn't know English.

• alone on the sea

• “Incomprehensible men! Wrapped up in meditations of a kind which I cannot divine, they pass me by unnoticed.” （这些不可思议的人哟！沉溺于一种我无法窥视的冥想之中，经过我身边却对我视而不见。）

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Videos

1 ） "dusky-red" moon

2 ） "a dull, sullen glare of red light which streamed down the sides of the vast chasm where we lay"

3 ）” Sickly yellow luster" sun

4 ） "black sweltering desert of ebony 黑檀 "

5 ） "the swelling of the black stupendous seas became more dismally appalling"

color techniques

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stylistic devices:metaphors and personificationTo increase the effect and make the language more

expressive • the wind "every breath of which died away"

• "the colossal waters" that "rear their heads like demons of the deep" .

• billows are just like "demons confined to simple threats, and forbidden to destroy"

• the ice is presented as "a gigantic amphitheater" and looks "like the walls of the universe".

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repetition of mystery ， ominous feelings• I went below—not without a full presentiment of evil. • ——我回到舱房 心中不无一种大祸临头的预感。• I went as passenger—having no other inducement than a kind of nervous restlessn

ess which haunted me as a fiend• 我这次旅行只有一个原因，那就是我感到了一种像是魔鬼附身似的心神不定。 .

• I went below—not without a full presentiment of evil.Why I did so I can hardly tell. An indefinite sense of awe, which at first sight of the navigators of the ship had taken hold of my mind, was perhaps the principle of my concealment.

我说不清自己为何要躲藏。也许第一眼看见这船上那些水手时心中所产生的一种模糊的畏惧感就是我想躲起来的原因。• A feeling, for which I have no name, has taken possession of my soul—a sensatio

n which will admit of no analysis, to which the lessons of bygone times are inadequate, and for which I fear futurity itself will offer me no key.

——一种莫可名状的感情占据了我的心灵 那是一种不容分析、早年的学识不足以解释、而未来本身恐怕也给不出答案的感情。

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past tense ： main body present or future tense: “It is true that I may not find an opportunity of transmitting it to the world, but I will not fall to make the endeavour. At the last moment I will enclose the MS. in a bottle, and cast it within the sea.”(narrator's impressions or plans for putting his manuscript into the bottle.)

present continuous tense ： "The circles rapidly go small - we are plunging madly within the grasp of the whirlpool - and amid a roaring, and belonging, and thundering of ocean and tempest, the ship is quivering - oh God! And - going down!" " ——可我现在已没有时问来考虑自己的命运！圆圈飞快地缩小 我们正急

——速地陷入漩涡的中心 在大海与风暴的咆哮、呼号、轰鸣声中，这艘船—— ——在颤抖 哦，上帝！ 在下沉！ "

reality & tension

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contrast

a man who considers himself a man has a “deficiency of imagination”

scientific imaginings and description of a physical world beyond the limits of human imagination

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The Legend of The Flying Dutchman . The descriptions of the ship mirror the Flying Dutchman legend. The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship that can never make port, doomed to sail the oceans forever. It was a fast ship, so fast that its captain was said to have received help from the devil. When this "flying Dutchman"was rounding the Cape of Good Hope off South Africa during a tempest, the captain vowed that he would weather the storm if he had to sail until doomsday. The ship never returned from its voyage. Over the years, the crews and passengers of numerous ships reported sightings of a "ghost ship" in the cape and sometimes elsewhere, referring to it as The Flying Dutchman.

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discussion ：• Question ： Do you think it's actually a satire

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