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The whole text uses the first person to describe the whole story, so let's talk about the characteristics and benefits of the first person.
The use of first person makes the article more authentic and storylike (tortuous or tortuous), makes the article more vivid and vivid, and enables the reader to more specifically appreciate the author's mood. The first-person description with an intimate sense of convenience subjective psychology has a strong sense of substitution and is easy to lyrically. The first-person narrative angle, written about the things in the eyes and hearts of "I", can fully show the inner world of "me", which is more realistic. When reading, it seems that not only the author is "me", but even the reader has become the "me" in the novel. So the advantage of first-person is that the novel situation appears more realistic, and the distance between the author and the reader is reduced. Closer to themselves, most people read novels are pastime, from the novel to find their own desires, fantasies, then in the first person, can make the reader feel empathy, there is a sense of immersion.
We start with the first-person "I", "I" in the novel from beginning to end constantly emphasize that I am not crazy, and try to prove this, but the "I" narrative does not convince others of the normality of "I", but makes people think that "I" is a crazy perverted murderer. From the very beginning, "I" have positioned myself as a very normal person, but I am "extremely nervous", I am different from ordinary people, I have an unusually keen sense of sensation and hearing, and the feelings that are not like others have been blunted and destroyed, so it seems to be taken for granted, but "I" expounded that "I can hear the voices from heaven and hell" reveals madness, which is unimaginable and unreal. And "I" eagerly question others for thinking they are crazy, which makes the madness even more intense: "Why do you say I'm crazy?" "So 'I' am crazy?"
In the case that the general cognition of "me" by others is crazy, "I" choose to "healthy" and "calmly" narrate the killing process of "me" to continue to prove that I am not crazy, and I am a very calm and rational person. "I" narrate the whole story in a tone that is extremely calm and self-sustaining and methodical most of the time, such as narrating how to sneak into the old man's room step by step at night, calmly showing kindness to the old man during the day, methodically hiding the body after killing people, and calmly dealing with the police when they come to the door. All this proves that "I" have a strong sense of reason and am not crazy. However, trying to rely on these convincing "I" not crazy expectations can not be successfully realized, from not because the old man once "insulted me" and "mistreated me", but only because of the old man's eyes and planned to kill him, to sneak into the old man's room for seven consecutive days and stubbornly because the old man's eyes are closed and shelved the plan again and again, and even after successfully killing the old man, he successfully evaded the police's questioning, but fell into hysteria because of the heartbeat he heard, confessing to the fact that he killed people, which shows the madness of "me", It is impossible to prove that "I" am a wise, calm person
Cover of the novel Leaking Hearts
The work contains two major theme ideas, listen to the editor to tell you about it.
The protagonist of the novel is "madness and reason", the short story is intertwined with madness and reason, sometimes reason, sometimes madness, reason with madness, crazy behavior reveals hidden reason, and such a situation does not answer the question that "I" has always asked: "Do you think I am crazy?" Therefore, to some extent, it also leads to the meaninglessness of "I"'s support and inquiry about this question.
Because the old man's eyes brought me insecurity, in order to escape this cold look, "I" killed the old man, but after the man died, he was greeted with a huge panic and a faster and faster heartbeat. The author's very detailed psychological and action description of the protagonist, all of which show the interweaving of madness and reason, seem to be contradictory, but it is also reasonable.
The greatest happiness on earth is the happiness of a healthy personality! In Leaking Hearts, the narrator's mental personality controls the actions of the self, and he does what he has to do cautiously and visionarily. The narrator is influenced by the outside world and realizes that he is committing a crime, but the consumption of psychological energy cannot suppress and restrict the desires and impulses of the original self, and the original self blindly pursues satisfaction without being constrained by ethics and morality.
Anyone, at any given moment, can do the most ridiculous, terrible thing, and everyone can go crazy at a certain moment. Therefore, a healthy personality can only be developed healthily under the influence of a healthy environment and education, otherwise it will cause a deformed personality and produce a large number of neuropathic patients.
"Leaky Heart" focuses on the perverted behavior and psychology of a cold-blooded murderer. The special rhythm of the language level in the text is inseparable from the psychological presentation of the characters and the author's creative theme. Ignoring these linguistic techniques is bound to weaken the aesthetic appreciation and deep understanding of the novel. ——Cao Qingyan (Associate Professor, Shangqiu Normal University)
The author of the novel adopts the artistic characteristics of the Gothic novel, opening up a new aesthetic standard, and the suspense of the opening itself contains the meaning of horror, which can improve the level of horror and stimulate the reader's feeling of fear and desire for subsequent development.
Poe used a first-person narrative to prove the psychopathic psychology of murder, rather than showing an atmosphere of horror by depicting ugly and disgusting scene details. The author uses this way, setting up one suspense after another, arousing the reader's curiosity and eagerness to read, after getting rid of the problems hidden in their minds.
The three basic principles of Sartre's existentialism are embodied in Leaked Hearts, making it a novel with strong existential overtones. Xiaobian will no longer list here one by one, interested in the small partner can use the tools around to query the relevant information Ha!
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