tales of mystery and imagination12th[1] ppt

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Edgar Allan PoeTales of Mystery and Imagination

(1908)


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Edgar Allan Poe (1809 1849) American romantic poet

Best known for his mystery

One of the earliest practitioners of

short story and inventor of detective-fiction genre

Rational composition of tales

Horror as a result of human wrath


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Edgar Allan Poe (1809 1849) He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston

His mother early died and his fatherabandoned family

He was adopted by John and FrancesAllan

He studied university for one semester

he left for lack of money He married his cousin Virginia (13)

He died because of alcohol and drugs


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Tales of Mystery and

Imagination The first complete collection of Poes

tales

Includes 10 short stories
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The Fall of the

House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe

1839
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The Fall of the House of Usher

The gothic context of the tale:
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Gothic Elements

Supernatural horrors and an atmosphere of unknown terror pervades the action

High emotion, sentimentalism, but also pronounced anger, surprise, and especiallyterror

Use of words indicating fear, mystery, etc.: apparition, devil, ghost, haunted, terror,

fright, fainting Emphasis on setting

Exterior: landscape

Interior: houses

Castle-like architecture

Characters are brooding, secretive Buried family secrets

Long history of family tied to place
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The Gothic literary tradition

Begun in eighteenth century England

Novelists

Horace Walpole

Ann Radcliffe Matthew Monk Lewis

Popular form in British literary journals

Imported into American short story - 19th

century

Key ingredient was sensationalism
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Gothic Architecture in America

Started in US about

1840

Steeply pitched roofs Pointed arch windows

Elaborate trim around

roof edges

High dormers

Lancet windows


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GOTHIC.. continued

Poes house of

Usher looks more

like a medieval castleor English cathedral in

Gothic style
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The vision.. Secretive, eerie

The house might look

something like this

(from a photograph bySimon Marsden in his

Visions of Poe)
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Who Represents What?

Roderick

An artist figure

Nervous agitation

Lives in dark upstairs apartment

Cadaverous complexion

want of moral energy

excessive nervous agitation


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Rodericks mental condition is affected by hisenvironment

He was enchanted by certain superstitious

impressions in regard to the dwelling which hetenanted . . . An effect which thephysiqueof the

gray walls and turrets, and of the dim tarn into

which they all looked down, had, at length,

brought about upon the moraleof his existence.


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Here, physique refers to something physical

And morale refers to something mental

Roderick is all mind in a weak body He represents in one way the life of the isolated

artist

Paintings

Reading

Guitar playing
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Madeleine Illness has debilitated her

All descriptions focus on the body gradual wasting away of the person

Roderick and the narrator screw down the lid of hercoffin

She returns from the tomb to reclaim her twin brother,her double

the huge antique panelsthrew back

She fell heavily inward uponher brother andborehim to the floor a corpse
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The Red Death

Nobles wanted to remove mask fromthe mysterious guest and they findthat there is no human body in clothes

They realize that the figure is the RedDeath and all nobles have this disease

The clock stop forever

And Darkness and Decay and the RedDeath held illimitable dominion overall.
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The Red Death

The Red Death: killed thousandspeople

Heavy bleeding through the skin, death

came in half an hour Prince Prospero and one thousand

other nobles have taken refuge in his

walled abbey to escape There is 7 room painted in different

colour and one is painted black with

blood-red window and clock


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The Red Death

Prince holds a carnival in black room There appeared a figure which looks

like death and have symptoms of Red

Death Prospero would like to kill him but

when the figure turns to face him, the

Prince falls dead.
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