The Usher mansion is transformed into the lifeless counterpart of the inhabitants. It is a symbol and a valuable character that makes the transition between the realm of the dead and that of the living creatures; it symbolizes death and decomposition. Its walls are encapsulating and suffocating the Usher twins, bringing the fall both inwardly and outwardly. Poe transforms the...
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Gothicism is defined as a style in fictional literature characterized by gloomy settings, violent or grotesque action, and a mood of decay, degeneration, and decadence. This style of writing can be found in numerous different pieces of literature. An example of literature that uses this is Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”. In Poe’s “The Fall...
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The Fall of the House of Usher has strong literary elements that make it align with the more Gothic style writing that once came from romanticism. Gothic literature is a certain writing style that is mainly defined by its use of death, fear, horror, gloom and while using more romantic features like very high and strong emotional connections, individualism, and...
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Cormac McCarthy started a trend in American literature following violence and desolation. One of McCarthy’s well known works is The Road written in 2006. His work with dismembering humans depicts an epic but brutal sense of reality. In the The Road McCarthy shifts his focus to post-apocalyptic America and its effects on human psyche. Similar yet very different to The...
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As far as the sense of gothic, The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe was one of the texts that really stuck out. The story is about the narrator, Edgar Allen Poe, the narrator’s friend, Rodreick, and Rockreick’s sister, Madeline. The first conflict is when Madeline gets sick and it is a disease so bad, it’s...
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The late 1700s birthed a gothic intensity, a genre; it brought out the dark minds of horror, the reality, the eyes who saw the darkness, and the sensual desires one has. It created sub-categories of the most terrifying horror stories in time with the help of authors such as Stephen King or Tim Burton. A gothic sense has come into...
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Another theme that is used in the Fall of the House of Usher is the fact that madness is a major factor in the story of the Ushers. Many of Poe’s stories deal with the mental struggle-taking place inside someone and how that is affecting the others. In the Fall of the house of Usher the narrator states “In the...
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To fully understand and analyze a text it is difficult not to look at the author, in this case Edgar Allen Poe. Although Poe once claimed that his short stories are in no way about his personal life or about him, it is hard to imagine an author writing about something that they know nothing about or haven’t experienced at...
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Edgar Allan Poe lived a life full of trauma, loss, and substance abuse. In his 40 years, Poe endured an unimaginable stream of deaths of loved ones, professional disruption, and alcoholism, which contributed to his untimely death. Ultimately, his experiences produced one of the most recognized, albeit posthumously, American authors of the 19th century. In the Sanglap: Journal of Literacy...
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Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” is a masterpiece of Gothic literature, examining the fine line between life and death as a result of fear. Poe’s, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” possesses the conventional characteristics of Gothic literature and romanticism through the elements of loneliness, madness, and horror. Through Poe’s vivid personification,...
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Throughout Poe's life, many challenges have been thrown at him, causing him to fall into a deep depression. He was born in 1809, and his mother sadly passed away 2 years later in 1811. Poe was adopted by the Allen family after her death, but his siblings stayed with different families. While he lived with the Allens, he went to...
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In scary stories, transformation plays a big role in trying to scare the reader and change their emotions by making the story go from normal to unusual. Usually the writer will have different techniques of doing this, transformation is one of them. Without transformation in a story, the story would not be as scary and the reader will lose interest...
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Edgar Allan Poe’s stories could easily be described with one word, enigma. His impeccable writings call on people to continue analyzing and to re-read. It questions people’s actions and thoughts. During Edgar Allan Poe’s time, the United States made many historical decisions that affected it’s citizens that will make it’s way into the books. Just like a big country faces...
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“The fall of the House of Usher” and” House Taken Over” are two stories we have read so far. These stories have similar stories with the whole house being taken over by a mysterious entity. Although both stories are technically different genres with “The Fall of the House of Usher” being gothic literature and “House Taken Over” is Magical realism...
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Stylistic analysis has a great role in understanding the importance of the literary elements as well as the linguistic contents in literary text. An attempt is made in the current paper to stylistically analyze the literary elements used in the concerned short story. Introduction Stylistic analysis is of great importance to know how language functions in a text. It provides...
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'Madeline is a mother figure who returns from the grave to punish Usher-Poe for deserting her and for having incestuous desires; Roderick is the artist who must destroy himself to create; the entire story is a symbolic enactment of the Apocalypse according to Poe.' 'Compare how the theme of dysfunctional families is presented in 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley and in...
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In the myths of twins, as a rule, twins are brothers. In the story of E. Roderick's twin is not a brother, but a sister, which in itself has a profound symbolic meaning. For E. Poe; the philosophy of the Ancient East, the idea of the interpenetration of the male and female beginnings received his artistic embodiment in many of...
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Transformation, transformation plays a key role in stories meant to scare us. “In the manner of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence--an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome a habitual residency--on excessive nervous agitation.”(p9 fall of the house of usher) this excerpt from the...
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A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner and Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe explore the psychological criticism through avenues of agoraphobia, depression, and necrophilia. Both Poe and Faulkner use elements of gothic literature in their writing which revolved around the death of a loved one, isolation, and mental illness. In Emily’s case of losing a...
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In this essay, two stories “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” will be analyzed focusing on how Edgar Allan Poe employs the themes of physical and mental sickness to reflect fear, mystery as well as death. Both stories present many similarities in which the characters are not only physically ill but also mentally and this...
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In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of The House of Usher”, the character Madeline is subjected to sexist treatment by her brother, Roderick as well as his friend, who is the unnamed narrator. As Madeline falls ill, the men fear her because she does not embody feminine qualities. She is not spoken to by the men, but portrayed...
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What is Life? There is no clear-cut definition for it. Many people have their definition of what life is and the majority think that happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence, and death is the complete opposite of it because it brings pain and fear. While death is inevitable but...
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Many people know that one person who might be very secretive, and we at least once went to their house, in which their parents never let us leave that one room. It's not that they chose to be secretive but instead, they grew up around a secretive family. This is very similar to Roderick Usher and how many never went...
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There are 13 elements of European Gothic. Elements of European Gothic are important in a gothic novel because authors can explore supernatural thoughts and ideas through narration. Two famous stories of the gothic genre are “The Fall of The House of Usher '' by Edgar Allan Poe and “The Castle of Otranto” by Horace Walpole. One of the elements of...
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The story is about the Usher family and it arises by the narrator visits his childhood friend who needs his help as he is sick. He describes the house as ancient and broken down and there lived Roderick and Madeline who seem to be mad. Madeline gets ill and doctors answer with no cure for this disease soon Roderick tells...
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