lourdes ulloque "the fall of the house of usher"
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The Fall of the House of Usher
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Introduction
Biography
Story Plot Synopsis
Main Characters Major Themes Symbols
Historical background
Transcendentalism Industrial Revolution Romantic Movement : Romanticism in The Fall of the
House of Usher
Conclusions
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The fall of the House of Usher shows all of theelements of Romanticism Nature Individualism Exotic setting Supernatural Imagination Exploring psyche
Relevant information Author Socio historical framework
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Born:January 19, 1809 Boston,Massachusetts United States
Died: October 7, 1849 (aged 40)
Baltimore, Maryland United States
Occupation: Poet, short storywriter, editor, literary critic
Genres: Horror fiction, Crimefiction, Detective fiction
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Orphan at early age
Strange marriage
Journals and periodicals and literarycriticism
Unknown cause of his death
Vast influence in different fields
His homes are dedicated museums today
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The Narrator Unnamed Childhood friends Intention of helping Usher Was he sane from the start ?
Roderick Usher: Last living descendant Man of culture and erudition Severe mental illness
Madeline: Roderick Usher's sister Suffers a mysterious illness: Catalepsy
Possibility of an incestuous relationship
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Mortality:
Premature burial: Two interpretations Madness:
Malady: no scientific explanation
Sanity and insanity -> Narrator into madness
Fear: Fear of fear itself
Acute anxiety
Friendship: Never fully explained
Narrator seems terrified
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Burial:
Three images of "tombs" or "crypts: cavernous rooms Usher's painting House into a New grave -> Poes story-within-a-story
Incest: No spouses "the entire family lay in the direct line of descent the strange qualities of the Usher family Twins share strange illnesses
The Arts: Usher is skilled at music and painting Comparison between Roderick to Fuseli
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Reality and Art: Connection between fiction and reality
Rodericks artistic creations: prophecies Sound of the medieval story = sound from the vault
Doubling: Dichotomy: twins, but male/female; mental/physical: alive/dead
The Small Fissure Symbolic connections between family and building Disruption in the Unity of the family
The House of Usher Several levels of interpretation:
The setting
Literally falls Organic Entity
Romantic Agony: Romantic Excess Esoteric works of Arts and Literature
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BACKGROUND
SOCIO-HISTORICAL
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Transcendentalism Unity of the world and God
American writes: lonely explorers
Industrial Revolution Intellectual and artistic hostility
importance of "nature"
in contrast to 'monstrous' machines and factories
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Socio-Historical Background
Romantic MovementAll Art forms
Development of the SELF
Emphasis on feeling: emotions, passions
Sublime -> high psychological states Individuality
Nature
Questioning conventional Codes
Myths and Legends from the past
Altered states : express vividly
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Poes characters Strangeness -> essential ingredient to beauty Aristocratic Gothic settings -> reflect INTERIOR -> DISTURBED PSYCHES Tragedy
Poes Insecurity
Europeans
Americans Disgust with DEMOCRACY:
Undersides of the American dream
Materialism/Competition: Families Art
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840)
Style Lack of traditional style -> Chaos in USA
Immigration
Urbanization
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A clear representation of its time period Symbolism
Vivid description
Connects the element of Romanticism to the plot of the
story and themes
Unique way of writing Horror in the story
Setting is brought to life in full color Reader feels like he is actually in the story
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