o by Eli Kyser

Daylight

ek83842 — 2023-10-31 17:05:08 UTC

This can be connected to the story with the line there's darkness in the distance when they are approaching the house.

I'm down on my knees again a line highlighting ushers weakness to his senses and body.

I love it and I hate it at the same time line could be connected with incest in the story

imagery

ek83842 — 2023-11-09 17:20:53 UTC

Reminded me of the specious totality of old woodwork which has rotted for long years in some neglected vault.

This part from the 5th paragraph shows imagery. With the words neglected and rotted for long years with old woodwork. This creates the setting of disgusting and all locked up waiting for someone to discover.

ICE

ek83842 — 2023-11-09 17:39:20 UTC

in section IV four the quote "A troop of Echos whose sweet duty was but to sing, in voices of surpassing beauty, and wit and wisdom of their king." This can be seen as personification and giving the troop of echos a amazing voice and beauty. this is important because the echos are amazing beautiful voices spreading word on how amazing the wisdom and wit of the king is. convincing everyone on how amazing the king is due to the beautiful voices saying these words makes people believe falsely. Because behind these voices is evil.

Q&A

ek83842 — 2023-11-12 17:32:03 UTC

Poe must have included this song to show how even if everything seems great and everlasting. but can soon become lonely and sorrowful. "Is but a dim-remembered story of the old time entombed". Showing how everything can be golden and great to crumbling down into darkness.

Summary

ek83842 — 2023-11-12 17:45:26 UTC

Part 5 the narrator reads a book the mad Trist of sir Lancelot Canning and starts to describe the story. As the actions the narrator reads start to become real and start to be heard. This happens around when Ethelred bangs on the door. This can be shown when the large dragon is slain and the narrator can hear a faint cry. Also being shown when the shield falls it can be heard by the narrator. The narrator realizes in the end after reading the part were Madeline reappears and crushes usher the narrator gets out of the building before it collapses.

Q&A

ek83842 — 2023-11-12 17:54:21 UTC

The thematic message of the story would be insanity. This can be seen in how Usher seems to be more and more out of touch with reality. As the story goes on the narrator seems to take on more characteristics of insanity. "I know not how it was but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit." showing how from the beginning the narrator already started to feel the pull on his sanity.

1st characteristic

ek83842 — 2023-11-12 17:55:07 UTC

A Gothic characteristic shown in the house of usher in chapter 31. the quote "the bewildering influence of the gloomy furniture of the room--of the dark and tattered draperies, which, tortured into the motion by the breath of a rising tempest. This creates suspense by describing the surroundings using the vocab dark, tattered, and tortured and also mentioning the rise of breath during the sight of the room.

2nd characteristic

ek83842 — 2023-11-12 17:55:14 UTC

From the book house of usher a quote showing Gothic characteristics. "I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect—in terror. In this unnerved, in this pitiable, condition I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm". This quote shows Gothic characteristics by highlighting the word abandon highlighting that he must throw away all his sanity in the struggle with the grim phantasm.

3rd characteristic

ek83842 — 2023-11-12 17:55:28 UTC

the house seems to have absorbed an evil and diseased atmosphere from the decaying trees and murky ponds around it.

ek83842 — 2024-05-17 11:46:01 UTC