Interpretation Of Allan Poe's Works By Existentialism

Edgar Allan Poe was a representative of the 19 th century American Romantic writers,but his greatness was not limited to that.He was a pioneer of aestheticism and symbolism,and the founder of detective novels.He pioneered science fiction and made great contributions to the development of Gothic novels.Future studies have made great contributions to the study of Poe's works.People saw Freud's psychoanalysis in his works and the lonely alienation of modernism.New historicism also interprets Poe on different levels in terms of economy,politics,culture,gender,and race.Poe's works never fading charms.From Poe's keen grasp of the times and life,from his transcendental vision.This kind of grasp and vision made the author discover,The humanistic concern permeated in Poe's works resonates with existential philosophy in the 20 th century.Existentialism is one of the main schools of contemporary western philosophy,which inherits Kierkegaard's mysticism and Nietzsche's will theory.Husserl's phenomenology,representing philosophers such as Jaspers,Heidegger and Sartre Existentialist philosophers,had different views,but they all showed concern for the state of man's existence.And this concern shares with the people revealed in Poe's works a kind of transtemporal commonality.The thesis is divided into three chapters,Chapter two and three are the main points of the discussion.The introduction part includes the study of Poe's works status quo and the innovation of this paper.The present research situation is summarized and analyzed from the perspective of introduction,aesthetic thought,artistic characteristics,comparative study,and the theme of the works.The first chapter analyzes the world in Poe's eyes from the point of view of being and the world.The first section discusses the similarities between Heidegger's view on the nature of science and technology and Poe's attitude and thinking on science,and the second section starts from Poe's life experience.Combining with the concrete text,this paper analyzes the absurdity in Poe's works,that is,the tension formed by the contrast between the pursuit of reason and reality,and expounds Poe's experience of the absurdity of the world.In the second chapter,from the point of view of being and others,The first section interprets Poe's modern novel "The Man of the crowd" from the perspective of the theory of ordinary people,and analyzes the details of the novel and the image of the old man and the "me" through the analysis of the details of the novel and the image of the old man and the "I".Explain the reason why the old man chase after the crowd-that is,the sense oftranquillity brought by the "they" makes him want to sink in the "they".At the same time,the image of "I" also reflects the characteristics of the "they" 's curiosity.The second section uses Sartre's gazing theory to explain the novel "The Tell-Tale Heart".Sartre's gazing at me in the theory of gazing at me makes me discover myself.But it also makes me the object of others,this kind of him.The hatred caused by the conflict between man and me is the philosophical reason of existentialism in the novel "I" killing the old man.The third section is the concrete relationship between self and others.From two aspects of love and sadism,Sartre thinks that both love and sexual sadism embody the conflict relationship with others,which is reflected in Poe's life experience and works.The third chapter,from the point of view of being and essence,excavates the literary expression of being and essence in Poe's works.The preference of strange works proves the "Angst" embodied in Poe's works-the key factor to prove the overall structure of Dasein's existence.The second section is written with the agreement between Poe and existentialist view of death.Attachment comes from his living experience,Poe and existentialist philosophers believe that death is an unavoidable possibility,but it does not mean that they view death negatively.On the contrary,"experiencing the death first" makes it possible to dig out more of its own possibilities and make life more meaningful.In verse three,Poe often creates a closed limit environment similar to Sartre's sitcom.All of them show the choices and actions that people make in this situation by creating special environment.People decide their essence through free choice and assume the corresponding responsibility.The conclusion points out that it is no accident to interpret Allan Poe by existentialism,summarizes the value and significance of this paper,and looks forward to the future of the study of Poe's works.