The house of usher by Steven Ezzat [Student FVHS] https://padlet.com/syezzat100/8vtomx8in9uk en-us 2017-11-08 18:49:24 UTC 2025-11-27 20:22:05 UTC hello@padlet.com Romantic and Gothic Lit Part: 2 tdnguyen166 https://padlet.com/syezzat100/8vtomx8in9uk/wish/204997172 3. "Example 3:His countenance  was, as usual, cadaverously wan-but, moreover, there was a species of mad hilarity in his eyes-an evidently restrained hysteria in his whole demeanor." (p. 331)
This quote relates to Gothic Lit ; values the power of imagination because of the amusement, the Usher had in his eyes and the odd hysteria he is going through his mind.

4.Example 4: " What might have been, in it's exact similarity of character, the echo of the very cracking and ripping sound which Sir Launcelot had so particularly described." (p 332)
This quote is an example of values feelings over intuition because of the sounds which occurred in the mansion that sounded so similar to what he was told by Sir Launcelot; very cracking, disturbing and dreadful. Also because he felt that the house was out to get him so he was thinking of the sounds from the house instead of feeling it coming from something more logical.

]]> 2017-11-08 18:54:32 UTC https://padlet.com/syezzat100/8vtomx8in9uk/wish/204997172 Romantic and Gothic Lit Part: 1 syezzat100 https://padlet.com/syezzat100/8vtomx8in9uk/wish/204998015 1.Example 1:"It was, indeed, a tempestuous yet sternly beautiful night, and one wildly singular in its terror and its beauty"(pg.331)
this is an example of finding beauty in exotic locales because the quote above describes how the night what beautiful yet it was also scary and this shows us that the narrator thinks there is beauty in that terror.

2.Example 2:"...but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady Madeline of usher... with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother,and in her violent and now final agonies,bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated"(Pg.333).
This is an example of the values of the power of the imagination because the brother of Madeline (Roderick) was so nervous and stressed thinking that the house was out to get him for some act that it was targeting him. And as his friend read the story of Lancelot with he sounds effects the sounded just like the story but it was really Madeline escaping the tome it further feed his fears and made him more convinced that the house was out to get him and this all culminated in Madeline falling on him and him (Roderick)dyeing just because of the sheer terror and fear he had created in his mind about the house that it killed him.So the power of his imagination that the house was out to killed him showed how powerful imagination was that it killed him.

]]> 2017-11-08 18:55:57 UTC https://padlet.com/syezzat100/8vtomx8in9uk/wish/204998015 Drawing of Scene ccdo100 https://padlet.com/syezzat100/8vtomx8in9uk/wish/205437791 2017-11-09 18:39:50 UTC https://padlet.com/syezzat100/8vtomx8in9uk/wish/205437791 Summary mphan103 https://padlet.com/syezzat100/8vtomx8in9uk/wish/205447963 In this portion of the story after Madeline’s death, Roderick Usher is seen by the unidentified narrator with “mad hilarity in his eye-an evidently restrained hysteria in his whole demeanor.” (p. 331) Roderick Usher hurriedly opened window which made a furious gust enter the room. There seemed to be a peculiar “gaseous exhalation which hung around about the enshrouded the mansion outside.” (p. 331) Roderick Usher simply said that the strange glowing objects and gas around them are “merely electrical phenomena not uncommon.” (p. 331) The narrator decided to read Roderick’s favorite romance to him called Mad Trist of Sir Launcelot Canning to “pass away this terrible night together”. (p.331)

As the narrator finished a portion of the story to Roderick, it seemed to him as though “from some very remote portion of the mansion… in its exact similarity of the character, the echo of the very cracking and ripping sound which Sir Launcelot had so particularly described.” (p. 332) It was odd that the very words that the narrator read to Roderick were heard exactly from somewhere in the house. As he continued reading the story to Roderick, he noticed that “a strange alteration had...taken place in his demeanor” (p. 332) Although Roderick had slumped down in his chair as his lips were trembling the narrator continued reading the story. Suddenly, Roderick jolted and yelled “We have put her living in the tomb!” (p. 333) As if he was mad, he shrieked “ Madman! I tell you that she now stands without the door!” (p. 333) Before them stood the figure of Madeline. She looked horrible and was trembling with “blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame” (p. 333) Madeline with fury in her eyes she “bore him to the floor a corpse” and they feel unto the ground. (p. 333) The narrator ran out of the mansion as it crumbled behind him. The House of Usher was nowhere to be seen and all was left were fragments of the mansion.

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