Thursday, November 12, 2009

The fall of the house of Usher

- Edgar Allen Poe
- Unity of effect, every detail contributes to a single overall feeling
- Strange, fantastic, phsycological terror
- Mood: feeling, atmosphere

- Large, scary mansion, dark, statues
- Handed down in the family
- Came because Usher was ill, only friend
- Madeline has disease
- Buries Madeline alive to end the family curse, but she comes back to get him, retribution
- Usher and Madeline both die, narrator runs away and the house burns down.

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