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The fall of thehouse of usher

By :Edgar Allan Poe

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The Fall of the house of Usher

The most famous short story of Edgar AllanPoe.

It is the masterpiece of American GothicFiction.Gothic Fiction: Dark, strange and

melodramatic stories which lead to somethingevil.

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Gothic fiction (features)Horror.The supernatural.Death.Madness.Hereditary curses.Medieval-like settings.

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The fall of thehouse of Usher

(first publication)BurtonsGentlemansMagazine. (September1839).Tales of theGrotesque andArabesque (1840).Period of AmericanRomanticism.Dark Romanticism.(Pessimistic nature)

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First person . A nameless narrator. He describes the events as he saw them.

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The narrator: A friend of the master ofthe House of Usher. He witnessesterrifying events.

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The master of thehouse, he suffers from a depressingmalaise.

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Twin sister of

Roderick. She also suffers from a strange

illness.

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The story:The narrator arrives to the Ushers house ; an

old mansion encircled by a small tarn (lake). Abridge across the tarn provides access to thehouse.

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Roderick Usher, receives the visitor, a boyhoodfriend. Roderick, who is suffering from astrange mental illnes, lives there with his twinsister Madeline who is near death due to amysterious disease.

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The narrator stays with them, he providescompany to Roderick while he paints and playsguitar, he spends all his days inside, avoidingthe sunlight.

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When Madeline dies, Roderick decides tobury her temporarily in one of his houses largevaults.

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A few days later, during a stormy night,the Narrator couldnt sleep, he wasterrified. Roderick comes to theNarrators bedroom.

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The narrator attemps to calm Roderick by

reading The Mad Trist, a story about aKnight , Ethelred who slays a dragonand wins a shield of shining brass.

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As the narrator reads the book, they can listento the same sounds related in the story.Roderick declares Madeline was alive whenthey buried her.

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Then, Madeline emerges from herprovisional tomb. She confronts Roderickand begins throttling him to death.

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The house begins to collapse , the narratorflees for his life. Roderick is dead. He andMadeline are consumed by the falling house.

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Focus: Terminal illness.

Madness.

Incest.

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Symbolism:A tarn encircling the Mansion and Reflecting ItsImage:Madeline as the twin of Roderick, reflecting hisimage and personality.The desire of the Ushers to isolate themselvesfrom the outside world.

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The Bridge Over the Tarn:The narrator as Roderick Ushers only link to the outside

world.The name Usher:

An usher is a doorkeeper. In this sense, Roderick Usheropens the door to a frightening world for the narrator.The Storm:

The turbulent emotions experienced by thecharacters.The Collapsing Mansion:

Fall of the Usher family.

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