這次列為分析對象的愛倫坡小說為<麗姬亞>、<一桶阿蒙地亞度酒>、及<陷阱與鐘擺>。在<麗姬亞>中，羅威娜是一個被主角丈夫所壓抑的角色，並且被裝置駭人的異質空間-新娘房所迫害;主角丈夫在此異質空間中大量灌注其男性中心之意識形態，意圖置羅威娜於死地並且使前妻麗姬亞復活。此故事中的異質空間包含了主人翁為了度過麗姬亞死亡帶來的悲傷所買的修道院以及主人翁一手設計的新娘房。在<一桶阿蒙蒂雅度酒 >，福托納度和蒙特雷索爾在酒窖這個惡意且異質的空間中展開了一場權力鬥爭;故事中的嘉年華會與酒窖這個異質空間合謀促成了福托納度的死亡。福托納度因一己的驕傲而忽略了蒙特雷索爾語言中隱含死亡威脅，使自己走上了死亡之路。至於<陷阱與鐘擺>與上述兩個故事不同的是:主角雖然被異質空間-宗教法庭的地牢所迫害，卻能夠擺脫重重束縛的監獄空間並且運用一己之後設認知能力為自己脫身。此篇論文意在分析此三篇短篇小說中角色於傅科所提出的異質空間中所展現之動能，愛倫坡透露出的訊息是讀者若能運用一己之力，即使面對困境也能擺脫。

The three tales discussed in the analysis are “Ligeia,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Pit and the Pendulum.” In “Ligeia,” Rowena is persecuted by her husband’s ill attempt to put her to death by the use of the heterotopian space, the aghast bridal chamber; in addition, the narrator imbues the room with his consciousness to kill Rowena and restore Ligeia. The heterotopian sites include the abbey and the bridal chamber. In Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” Montresor and Fortunato have a power struggle in Montresor’s catacomb, the deftly calculated heterotopian space designed to lure Fortunato to death during the carnival season. The carnival facilitates Montresor’s murder of Fortunato in the story. Not knowing the true meaning of Montresor’s puns, Fortunato falls prey to the murderous plan. In “The Pit and the Pendulum,” the main character is, contrary to the two characters mentioned above, able to break through the heterotopian space of the pit which the Inquisition specifically designed for him and set himself free by using metacognitive skills. In the three tales, from Rowena’s sacrifice, Fortunato’s power struggle, and the protagonist’s action in “The Pit and the Pendulum,” the three characters exhibited three different levels of agency in the “other spaces” proposed by Michel Foucault. My analysis aims to focus on the roles’ actions towards the limitation or persecution around them in the heterotopias and explain how the three characters gesture toward the persecution respectively. Poe hints through the tales that even in the face of extremities, by executing human agency, difficult situations can be eventually surmounted.

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