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    in. It sets the tone and mood for readers to feel as they read. Two short stories that have similar plots, but are from different genres are “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “House Taken Over.” “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe seeks to evoke a gothic mood from the description of the house to leave readers in suspense, while “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortazar focuses on a lighter, realistic view of everyday life. Gothic Literature is a literary device that originated in England

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    example of this is in the “The Fall of The House of Usher” by Edgar Allen Poe “[The narrator describes Madeline’s coming back from the dead and how Usher reacted] with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse and a victim to the terrors he anticipated” (30). This shows how fear can be consequential to someone's emotional point of view to the point in which Usher went insane and ultimately died

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    “The Fall Of The House Of Usher:” The Mysterious Family In the story “ The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, has an American romanticism with its characters. Edgar Allan Poe is considered a Dark Romanticism because of the way he writes his poems and short stories centered around the concept of evil human nature, darkness, and death. Roderick and Madeline Usher were said to be related during the middle of the story; they were twins. It explained how they were sick, Roderick had a mental

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    the story “ The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, has american romanticism with the characters. Edgar Allan Poe is considered a Dark Romanticism because of his poems and short stories centered around the ideas of evil human nature, darkness, and death. Roderick Usher and Madeline were that kind of person in this story; they were twins. There were sick; Roderick had mental disorder and physically and Madeline was physically sick. As the narrator enters the desolate house, he finds both

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    The setting of “The Fall of the House of Usher” contributes to the overall impact and significance of the story by showing the parallels between the life of the Usher twins and the life of the house they live in. In the beginning of the story the narrator describes the House as having a crack of fissure running down the front of it. He says that if one looked closely they could see “the beginning of a break in the front of the building, a crack making its way from the top down the wall until it became

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    to the appearance of the house. He uses a couple of things to try and make you feel negatively about this place. He used words and phrases such as: “insufferable gloom,” “vacant,” “black and lurid,” and the “rank sedges” were mentioned too. These are obviously there to give a sort of a bad connotation, or bad karma, to the house. He speaks of how the house has a “wild inconsistency” and how each individual stone is starting to decay and fall apart. Suggesting that the house has many problems, all problems

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    “The Fall of the House of Usher” has been noted as one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous short stories. The story begins when the narrator arrives at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher. Roderick is ill and has been living his life deeply reclusive. His sister Madeline suffers from a sensory disorder and is considered to be dead. The narrator attempts to comfort Roderick and alleviate his melancholy by reading a story that appears to foreshadow later events. In this story, Poe provides his audience

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    Summaries The Fall of the House of Usher - A man, called by his friend Roderick Usher, seeks out the House of Usher. Upon his arrival, he is astonished by the look of the house. He enters in, finding his friend in despair. Roderick and his sister are each suffering from disease. Roderick tells the narrator that the house is sentient. The sister dies, and is interred in the house’s vault. During the week that follows, both Usher and the narrator seem to become more anxious. One night, in an attempt

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    The fall of the house of Usher clearly reflect us the meaning behind the death of Roderick and Madeline. This story is about some twins, Roderick and Madeline, that were living on the house of their ancestors but the house was in bad conditions, so at the final after the twins died, because they were mentally and physically sick, the house fall down, as you may noticed about this story we can conclude in what way does The fall of the house of Usher connect to the decay of the family. The fall of

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    (Stovall 417). Poe 's poems and short stories can be analyzed in serval different perspectives. Take such as, Poe 's "The Fall of the House of the Usher" can be interpreted for most people as a story about a bizarre relationship between sister and brother. The story appears to just be about a family that only marries within the

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