Fall of the House of USher by Deven Dao [Student FVHS] https://padlet.com/dadao102/87vxe9jhq116 P. (331-333) Deven Dao Andrew Wynn Steven Luong Madison Le en-us 2017-11-08 18:51:26 UTC 2023-07-18 13:32:24 UTC hello@padlet.com Art dadao102 https://padlet.com/dadao102/87vxe9jhq116/wish/205434682 2017-11-09 18:34:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dadao102/87vxe9jhq116/wish/205434682 Connection #1 dadao102 https://padlet.com/dadao102/87vxe9jhq116/wish/205443442 Values of the power of the imagination|
" I now tell you that I heard her first feeble movements in the hollow coffin. I heard them - many, many days ago … now - to-night - Ethelred - ha ! ha ! - the breaking of the hermit's door, and the death-cry of the dragon … here he sprang furiously to his feet, and shrieked out his syllables, as if in the effort he were giving up his soul” (P. 333)

In the story, Roderick Usher slowly begins to lose his mind. As the narrator reads the story by Sir Lancelot, he describes the noises coming from below. Roderick’s imagination is represented as an uncontrollable being, as it begins to take over his mind, driving him insane. It is revealed that throughout the story the cause of Roderick’s madness comes from the torment of his own imagination.

In the story, Roderick Usher slowly begins to lose his mind. As the narrator reads the story by Sir Lancelot, he describes the noises coming from below. Roderick’s imagination is represented as an uncontrollable being, as it begins to take over his mind, driving him insane. It is revealed that throughout the story the cause of Roderick’s madness comes from the torment of his own imagination.

]]> 2017-11-09 18:48:58 UTC https://padlet.com/dadao102/87vxe9jhq116/wish/205443442 Connection #2 dadao102 https://padlet.com/dadao102/87vxe9jhq116/wish/205444116 Supernatural events and bizarre plot
“It was the work of the rushing gust --but then without those doors there DID stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady Madeline of Usher. There was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame… From that chamber, and from that mansion, I fled aghast. The storm was still abroad in all its wrath as I found myself crossing the old causeway…  and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the ‘HOUSE OF USHER’” (P.333)
 
Throughout the story, many supernatural events occur around the house of usher as if they were common. Roderick’s  choice to bury Madeline to keep her body away from doctors was quite peculiar, despite the fact that it may have revealed the “cause” of her death. As the narrator read to Roderick, it appeared to have mimicked the noises from below the house, further increasing his paranoia. It is revealed that Madeline Usher had been buried alive and had come to scare her brother, while at the same time the storm begins to tear the house apart. There is so much chaos in the moment of Madeline’s arrival while the  narrator struggles to get a grasp of the situation. All in a few minutes Roderick dies from the extreme amount of stress and fear, and the narrator has no choice but to escape the tumbling House of Usher.

]]> 2017-11-09 18:50:00 UTC https://padlet.com/dadao102/87vxe9jhq116/wish/205444116 Connection #3 dadao102 https://padlet.com/dadao102/87vxe9jhq116/wish/205446478 Gothic lit.
-“The radiance was that of a full, setting, and blood red moon, which now shone vividly through that once barely discernible fissure, of which I have before spoken as extending from the roof of the building, in a zigzag direction, to the base” (pg. 333)

In the story, the narrator describes the appearance of the Usher’s house as he rushes 
away on horseback, with a blood moon in the background and the now collapsing building of the place he had returned to in the beginning of the story. Throughout the story, the house was shattering and decaying along side with Roderick Usher, whose mental health has taken a toll.


]]> 2017-11-09 18:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dadao102/87vxe9jhq116/wish/205446478 Summary dadao102 https://padlet.com/dadao102/87vxe9jhq116/wish/205447287 The beginning of this scene starts off on a simply yet normal behavior off walking through a mysterious staircase of the narrator seeing a suspicious light which had caught his attention. The light had come from Roderick Usher, who had given the narrator only a moment of relief. Usher had asked if “you have not seen it?” (Pg. 331) to the narrator as if he wanted to give his friend a feeling of question. This may have signified that Usher, after burying Madeline in the coffin not too long ago, had felt the presence of her awakening that had “reverberated throughout the forest.” (Pg. 332).As of late, Usher had been reading the story of the Trist about a hero named Ethelred through the echoes of the thundering storm.

During the night, there were “commingled noises” (Pg. 332) that had been suspiciously heard near the casements of the mansion. The narrator had heard a low yet screeching sound which had appeared almost as if it were a faint and distant grating sound. The narrator had some suspicions that his dear friend had been acting a bit paranoid, but the sound had sparked himself to believe that Usher might be correct. Next, Usher had perceived that his dear Madeleine had been awakened and that she had been the source of the peculiar sounds coming through the mansion and that she was at the door. Usher had opened the door, only to be absorbed by his sister who had been evidently shown to come back back from the dead, and the mansion had began coming down as the narrator escaped for his dear life into the echoing storm.
]]> 2017-11-09 18:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dadao102/87vxe9jhq116/wish/205447287 Connection #4 dadao102 https://padlet.com/dadao102/87vxe9jhq116/wish/205448049 Tries to reproduce the mysterious atmosphere suggested by medieval castles
-“I say that even their exceeding density did not prevent our perceiving this yet we had no glimpse…..were glowing in the unnatural light of a faintly luminous and distinctly visible gaseous exhalation which hung about and enshrouded the mansion” (pg 331)

The eerie sense that the scene was describing how the exterior of the mansion was being surrounded by thick fog layers that hover around the ground and heavy clouds that prevents the moon from being seen by the narrator, adding on to the fear factor and how the story was going. 

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