On The Effects Of Terror In Edgar Allan Poe Gothic Fiction

Edgar Allan Poe led the terror of Gothic novels from external fear to fear of themind, and subsequently affected a large number of writers to use the psychologicaldescription. Poe’s fiction subverted the traditional Gothic fiction of the moraladmonition-style; he paved the way for the effects of terror created from the articlebegan extensive by last, rather than the outcome of the moral influence. Poeemphasized the totality of impression and the unity of effect.He believed that theultimate purpose of building the work was to arouse the reader’s mind of a particulareffect. He wanted to plot to build a scene, rendering the atmosphere by seriouslyarrangement from the beginning of the first word to the end of the story.In order to build the special effects of terror in Poe’s Gothic fiction, he describedthe life scene through a dark, brutal life of death and a description of the physicalinjury and strange invisible force lay. His modus of Gothic fiction brought externaleffects of terror form transformation of the environment into the trembling of the soul.The American society was in the cultural rise times, so people should face therepression of the social life and the conflicts of their own inner desires cannot bereleased. It has been a kind of "American" cultural crisis, people live in fear of thefuture and the deep fate whirlpool emotional. Poe excavated the revealing of source ofhis Gothic terror effect with profound social significance. It had reflect on theshortcomings of the cause Poe’s own unique charm in Gothic fiction Gothic literature.Like the Puritan culture and the critique of industrial society, as well as his ownpursuit of unique aesthetic taste.Poe created new-Gothic fiction writing techniques by the combination of the"effect theory”, it created a new "psychological Gothic" school of literary creationgenre, making the American Gothic fiction had become better than the traditionalGothic fiction in aesthetic value and literary appreciation significance.