Wednesday, October 28, 2009

The Fall of The House of Usher by Edger Allen Poe

*Unity of effect: single overall feeling
*Strange and fantastic: are gothic literature elements
*Mood: feeling and atmosphere

*dark soundless day in autumn
*rode on a horse through a country
*6 verses in the "Haunted Palace."
*The man used to be childhood friends with Roderick usher. the houses proprietor
*Rod sent him a letter that Rod had a mental illness and he needed to see him
*Rod always was quiet and didnt say much
*House features gothic elements
*Rods sister Madeline passed away, she was all he had left, she died from a deasease
"didnt REALLY die though"
*Rod and a man burried Madeline in the basement
*Soon after Madeline died Rod became sick
*The man watches as Rod goes crazy thinking that his sister Madeline has come alive from the tomb.
*Rod and the man saw Madelines ghost in the hall. Blood on her white robe she fell into Rod so they became one and killed him.

*buries his sister alive
*has sensitive things
*house burns after they dir
*Madeline has like catatonic stages

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