Edgar Allen Poe pages 329-330 by Brian Le https://padlet.com/gnightbrian007/e4srktdy328b Crested with the help of Kishaun Sykes and Andrew Nguyen en-us 2017-11-08 17:34:33 UTC 2023-06-09 13:28:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Terminator.png Element of Gothic and Romantic Literature: Finds beauty in exotic locales, the supernatural, and in the imagination. mirijguerin https://padlet.com/gnightbrian007/e4srktdy328b/wish/204951229 One common element used in horror stories to amplify the reader's involvement in the novel is the use of imagination and the supernatural. Edgar Allen Poe utilizes this component of his short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher." 

In this narration, the main character recounts his time with his deranged friend. During this time, the narrator reads a multitude of books and subjects dedicated to mysticism, magic, and horror to his sickly companion. When his friend's delusions become apparent, the writer "could not help thinking...of its probably influence upon the hypochondriac" (329). Poe uses the beauty of mystery and the supernatural, earlier established within the novel, to augment the horror aspects of the book.

Later into the Usher's spiral, the narrator notices that "an observable change came over the features of the mental disorder of my friend" (330), blaming them on the supernatural stories he had been telling to the Usher. When coming to this revelation, the writer notes that the "wild influences of his own fantastic yet impressive superstitions"  (330) were the cause of the final deteriorating of his brain. Even in the quote, the narrator acknowledges that, despite being the driving reason of his friend's madness, the horror stories and supernatural beings that the Usher was fearing were brilliant.]]> 2017-11-08 17:44:11 UTC https://padlet.com/gnightbrian007/e4srktdy328b/wish/204951229 Elements of Gothic and Romantic Literature: Values the power of imagination gnightbrian007 https://padlet.com/gnightbrian007/e4srktdy328b/wish/204951230 In the pages 329-330, we already know that Lord Usher has almost lost his sanity. It would be possible that he could hear things that the narrator cannot. Lord Usher also believes that his dead sister is somehow alive in the tomb.  A quote that proves that Lord Usher is deranged; " I could not help of thinking of the wild ritual of this work" (329)
Another quote that suggests that his imagination has taken over is on page 330. " You must stay! You have not seen it..." this quotes states that he is a lunatic  and goes out of his way to drag people down with him. ]]> 2017-11-08 17:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/gnightbrian007/e4srktdy328b/wish/204951230 Art Portion mirijguerin https://padlet.com/gnightbrian007/e4srktdy328b/wish/205389256 2017-11-09 17:16:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gnightbrian007/e4srktdy328b/wish/205389256 Summary mirijguerin https://padlet.com/gnightbrian007/e4srktdy328b/wish/205396678 Important plot points that happened during the story was the sister’s ‘’faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon the lip which is so terrible in death.’’ This refers to when the sister was in the tomb and the brothers says she looks at the brother and smiles. World were used like obstine and doughty was used in his writing from the section. This giving the reader a need for doughty or he would be sucken into the dark deeps of the house of horror. Trying to be a enjoyable guest while he faces mysterious paranormal throughout his stay. 

Hauntingly, the house had no mental help to his stay as it pushes him further and further to self destruction. Being his own enemy, he becomes worse hand worse as his stay in the house trying to comfort his friend. A use of foreshadowing in Poe’s work was when he was talking about the horror stories they read that were filled with superstitions. Later on in the story, it’s revealed that the tormentor of the Usher’s mind was his seemingly-deceased sister, showing a direct relation between that plot point and when it was shown earlier that they had been reading books about the haunted. 

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