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La Casa Tomada

Irene (The Sister)

Personality:

She is quiet, she gives her opinion only when necessary but does not reflect critical opinions or opinions that give a point of view, but only speaks when she must. Her brother has dominion over her and equates her. She is kind and submissive, she spends her time knitting. She is afraid of the house and the noises inside it.

Relationships with other characters:

She has a loving relationship with her brother, but not as a family, marital. She rejected other boyfriends or suitors to stay with her brother. They share household chores, without contradicting them. Her relationship with her family seems to be bad, in my opinion the sounds are from her dead relatives who judge them for having the relationship she has with her brother.

Relation to the Gothic or psychoanalysis:

In Gothic literature, women are usually shown as submissive, charming who need the help or protection of a man. In this text we can see it with Irene, she is saved or accompanied by her brother, she is not a person who is independent and strong, but rather submissive and dependent on her brother. Also the feeling of guilt, she has that feeling by acting crestfallen, by being silent and never giving an opinion, only dedicating herself to knitting, in my opinion she may feel guilt about the relationship with her brother and tries to follow a role that according to her is the one that corresponds.

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La Casa Tomada (The Sister)

Personality:

The sister is observed to be a little conservative, but generous person. She tries to maintain the legacy of her parents and keep the house in the best way, it is seen that she is a responsible woman and that she is attached to the past.

Relationships with other characters:

Her relationship is with her brother, as they both reside in the same house that was their parents. They maintain a strong bond and it progresses as events unfold with the entity in the house.

Relation to the Gothic or psychoanalysis:

The house can be said to be another character, as it takes on the characteristics of a gothic place, as well as the entity inside. The brothers cannot fight against this, since it is something intangible and what it provokes is fear and frustration.

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Irene: She is described as a calm an quiet woman. However, this description relates with the gothic literature according to the mistery, uncertainty and suspense. She mostly relates only with her brother with the one share everything. She has a very strong relationship with her brother, they are very comfortable with each other and have the same routines in the house. However, this relationships portrays the aspect of decay as the house is taken by an unknown and (supernatural) thing, their own relationship is affected, showing a decay in their familiar relationship, and also in the physical place that is the house.

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Jorge Kendall Fallas Solano - Irene  ( Casa Tomada)

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Jorge Kendall Fallas Solano - Irene  ( Casa Tomada)

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Irene is a girl who lives only with her brother. Although she lives with her brother, the relationship or role they play becomes more related to that of a married couple. Although she is a calm lady, this stillness is threatened and destroyed by a risk that is not explicit. During the development, this "danger" stalks them and takes away fragments of their home. Finally, the characters are forced to leave the place and lose their home.

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Roderick Usher:

In terms of personality, Usher is very enigmatic and has acute sensory experiences which contributes a lot to the gloomy atmosphere of the house. He has a close an unusual relationship with Madeline, his sister, and a weird relationship with the narrator.

Now, in relationship with the gothic and the psychoanalysis, Usher represents mental and physical decadence, and his presence creates an atmosphere of madness that blurs the line between the reality and the supernatural.

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Irene is a character in the story "Casa Tomada" by Julio Cortázar. She is the sister of the narrator, and they both live in a big old family house. Irene is concerned about the strange things happening in the house, and she becomes increasingly worried as they lose control of parts of the house to mysterious intruders. She is anxious about preserving the family legacy but eventually faces the decision to leave the house due to the unsettling events. Irene's character adds to the story's suspense and mystery as they deal with the unknown force that seems to have taken over their home. The story leaves the nature of this force and Irene's fate open to interpretation.

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Personality:

Madeline is pictured as a fragile and enigmatic character. She is mostly silent and passive throughout the story, contributing to the mistery of the text.

Relationships with other characters:

Madeline's main relationship is with her brother, Roderick Usher. As twins, they share an inexplicable bond that goes beyond the conventional sibling relationship. Their relationship becomes in a psychological and supernatural bond in a gloomy way. Also, she became in a victim of his bother when apparently got put in a coffin still alived.

Relationship with the Gothic and Psychoanalysis:

Madeline's character pictures gothic elemnts trhough her gloomy presence, the fact that she can be perceived as a ghost representing the supernatural or as a "death person alive" depending on the moment of the story, her charater cross the lines between life and death and the helath or ill mind.

Regarding the psychoanalytic perspective, Madeline's character can be seen as representing repressed elements such as sickness and the return of repressed emotions or traumas (each time she apperas after we think she is death).

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Irene from Casa Tomada seems to be a woman with a very introverted personality, must have some mental illness, may be because she is far from the outside world and only shares with her brother with whom she has a weird relationship. They seem to share a strong and intimate emotional bond in which they depend on each other, keep each other company and support in their loneliness.

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I chose the character "Irene" from "Casa tomada". Even though we know that this story is narrated by her brother, it is curious that she doesn't talk much. She is a mysterious person (characteristic of the gothic genre), even at the end we don't know too much about her personality or what she is like, we only know that she likes knitting clothes very much.

On the other hand, we could relate Irene (and also her brother) to a mental illness. Why not think that everything they experienced in this house was part of the characters' imagination. There is the possibility that everything was fine with the house, but something strange happened with her brother and Irene's mind. We would say that they simply had a mental illness and imagined everything. That could be the author's intention.

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The Fall of the House of Usher:

LADY MADELINE: Madeline is the sister of the protagonist (Roderick Usher), and as the story describes between them there is a very strong fraternal connection (they are twins), which makes Madeline's death very painful for Roderick, to the point of leading to his death. In the story he is described as a ghost "Lady Madeline passed slowly through a place apart from the chamber and, without noticing my presence, disappeared".

She suffered a strange illness; which led to her death, but she is not buried because of her brother's fear of burying her, but this causes her to appear at the end of the story and Roderick dies of fright.

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I chose Roderick Usher, one of the main characters in "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe.  He was described as a hypersensitive, reclusive, and mentally unstable man. Also, several sensory perceptions, made him extremely sensitive to light, sound, and other stimuli.

This story features a decaying mansion, the mentally unstable Roderick and his sickly sister, Madeline, and an atmosphere of fear and horror. We can perceived psychological horror, isolation, macabre and supernatural elements, decay and ruin, family curses, dark secrets, and intense emotions, all of which are common themes in Gothic literature.

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I chose Irene from Casa Tomada. This is a mild-mannered character. Her greatest do is weaving from the silence of the room. Her beauty lured many men into offering marriage proposals, but for some reason, she always refused to get married. She has come to blame the house for taking over her which has thwarted her from being happy with a man. Another possibility is because she loved her brother more than anyone else. Any feature of the Gothic genre is depicted in the house and how it makes them feel attached.

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The character I choose is the brother from "La Casa Tomada". He is very protective towards his sister and that's how his character develops, around his relationship with Irene. I think the Gothic genre is implied in the supernatural atmosphere of the house and the Psychoanalysis genre in the fear of not understanding what is going on in their house.

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The character I choose is The Narrator (Roderick's friend) from "The Fall of the House of Usher", this character is a good friend, who is kind and cares about Roberick health; he is skeptical at the beginning of the story regarding the supernatural and strange events that occurred in the house; however, with the time and at the end of the story we can infer that he is the only witness of what happened in the house, in some way this character is the victim at the end of the story due to the fear, suspense, and terror he experienced.

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Antony Sanchez Ramirez                                         The Fall of the House of Usher 

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Antony Sanchez Ramirez                                         The Fall of the House of Usher 

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Roderick Usher: this character was very introverted. he had a good and strong relationship with his twin sister Madeline, their relationship was mysterious and weird. He assolated himself after Madeline´s death.

In this story, we can see the gothic approach since the fact that there is always this quiet and mysterious environment that is surrounding the house and characters. Besides, the supernatural elements that the story wants to portray. Another aspect is that everything is dying and decaying (house and characters).

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The housekeeper in "Casa Tomada" is a character characterized by a practical and diligent personality, serving mainly as a housekeeper figure. Her relationships mainly revolve around Irene and her brother, helping them with daily tasks. While she is not inherently gothic or psychoanalytic, her presence represents the ordinary and the conscious, in stark contrast to the disturbing and enigmatic events unfolding within the house. She symbolizes normality disturbed by the intrusion of the supernatural, accentuating the disturbing atmosphere central to the Gothic genre.