“처벌받지 않고 처벌하기”: 「아몬틸라도 술통」과 「에밀리에게 장미를」에 나타난 복수와 공포
“Punish with Impunity”: Revenge and Horror in “The Cask of Amontillado” and “A Rose for Emily”
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Edgar Allan Poe created a genre of the psychological horror tale advancing the British Gothic form into his art of horror. By drawing attention to Poe’s gothic sensibilities towards death and human psychology, this essay shows how his horror stories influence William Faulkner, a writer of the American South, within the gothic genre. In “The Cask of Amontillado,” Poe’s command of the revenge theme has deepened in that he portrays the perpetrator’s apparent rationality in the planning and exacting of murderous revenge “with impunity.” Montresor, the sociopathic criminal, fails to gain pleasure at the final moment of entombment when his adversary refuses to play the role of the agonized victim. Thus, Montresor’s compulsive detailed relation of his crime after fifty years demonstrates his need to reassure satisfaction in reenacting revenge. Poe’s influence is apparent in Faulkner’s gothic obsession with perversity and insanity in “A Rose for Emily.” The dark underworld of Montresor’s catacombs is transformed into Emily’s bridal room and tomb. The grotesque necrophilia implied in the final scene shows Emily’s ultimate revenge on the perverse townspeople. The parallels between the two pieces show that in themes of revenge, brutality, perversity and horror, Faulkner is indebted to Poe’s tales of terror.
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Edgar Allan Poe created a genre of the psychological horror tale advancing the British Gothic form into his art of horror. By drawing attention to Poe’s gothic sensibilities towards death and human psychology, this essay shows how his horror stories influence William Faulkner, a writer of the American South, within the gothic genre. In “The Cask of Amontillado,” Poe’s command of the revenge theme has deepened in that he portrays the perpetrator’s apparent rationality in the planning and exacting of murderous revenge “with impunity.” Montresor, the sociopathic criminal, fails to gain pleasure at the final moment of entombment when his adversary refuses to play the role of the agonized victim. Thus, Montresor’s compulsive detailed relation of his crime after fifty years demonstrates his need to reassure satisfaction in reenacting revenge. Poe’s influence is apparent in Faulkner’s gothic obsession with perversity and insanity in “A Rose for Emily.” The dark underworld of Montresor’s catacombs is transformed into Emily’s bridal room and tomb. The grotesque necrophilia implied in the final scene shows Emily’s ultimate revenge on the perverse townspeople. The parallels between the two pieces show that in themes of revenge, brutality, perversity and horror, Faulkner is indebted to Poe’s tales of terror.
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