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    "The Fall of the House of Usher" has the quintessential - elements of the Gothic story: a spooky house, bleak scene, secretive infection, and multiplied identity. For all its effortlessly identifiable Gothic components, nonetheless, some portion of the dread of this story is its dubiousness. We can't state for beyond any doubt where on the planet or precisely when the story happens. Rather than standard account markers of place and time, Poe utilizes conventional Gothic components, for example, severe

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    looked upon the rapidly changing world with a great deal of anxiety and fear. In fact, his short story, The Fall of the House of Usher reflects some of these anxieties as the titular family, who represent the increasingly irrelevant aristocratic sector in the South, faces extinction in light of the modernizing ideology around them. Throughout the narrative, the speaker reiterates the Ushers’ inability to change and evolve, thus suggesting their resistance to Althusser’s idea of interpellation. Althusser

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    House of Fear Fear can take over a person’s life. Roderick and his sister Madeline never left the house. Fear consumed Roderick’s life and Madeline was physically ill. Roderick invites his friend, the narrator, over to his home. While the narrator is there, he experiences strange noises and occurrences. “The Fall of The House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe show’s that fear can take over people’s life. Firstly, there are multiple symbols in “The Fall of The House of Usher”. The narrator says, “.

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    In the story “The Fall of the House of Usher” the narrator faces his the fact that he has to go and help Rodrick Usher who is mentally ill and his sister who is physically and mentally ill. “He admitted however, although with hesitation, that much of the peculiar gloom which thus afflicted him could be traced to a more

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    Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher In Poe's, 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' Roderick Usher is the main protagonist, he is a male, an outcast (as he doesn't seem to have many friends), part villain (as he buried his sister alive) and also part victim (as he suffers from an illness which makes him allergic to most everyday things) and is descended from an incestuous family. The story is like all other gothic stories, it has an emphasis on horror, old-fashioned settings

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    literature, and other storytelling forms. For example, “The Fall of The House of Usher,” by Edgar Allan Poe, “Where Is Here,” by Joyce Carol Oates, and “House Taken Over,” by Julio Cortazar, which are all literary pieces that deal with the phobia of transformation. In addition to these Doki Doki Literature Club, also uses the metamorphosis to change from calm to physcotic to both excite and frighten players. “The Fall of the House of Usher,” is a horror classic written by Edgar Allan Poe, one of the

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    Edgar Allan Poe once said that “all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” This eerie, dream view on life is explained in “The Fall of the House of Usher.” In this story, a mysterious narrator visits an old friend. However, it symbolizes Poe himself going to destroy his own issues, which is represented by his friend, Roderick. He manages to explain this by using symbolism, tone and mood, and language to his advantage. Symbolism is used to explain why he is in this reality. For example

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    madness. In the short story by Edgar Allan Poe named The Fall of the House of Usher, the narrator is trying to help his well known friend Roderick Usher with his disease that causes him fear and madness. Even though it has taken total control of Roderick's life. There are two main characters in this short story the first being the narrator who is an unnamed man, that has a long term friendship with Roderick Usher. The second character is Roderick Usher who has a disease that causes him constant fear and

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    Amontillado and The Fall of The House of Usher. --look at previous essays that you handed in Foreshadowing is a hint or clue of what is going to happen next in a story. Poe used foreshadowing in both the Fall of the House of Usher and The Cask of Amontillado. In The Fall of the House of Usher, Usher’s friend states, “But although the stones were each crumbling with age, no part of the building had fallen yet”(Poe 88). This is foreshadowing because by the end of the story, the house did fall down. The CITADEL

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    From past experience, terror is often a characteristic one associates with in eerie or frightening situations. In The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe portrays an uncomfortable environment between our three main characters. He presents the history of a dying direct line of descent within the Usher family and the many difficulties that come with having this type of family tree. This story encompasses illness, drama, and disturbance, which add to the mood/theme of the novel. Poe uses the

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