The Fall of the House of Usher by Jon Good https://padlet.com/jmgood100/f9jiuycc1yab Pages 329-330 Jon Good Ann Marie Vu Andrew Roy England Travis Nguyen en-us 2017-11-08 16:35:27 UTC 2024-08-11 07:33:13 UTC hello@padlet.com Relations to Gothic/Roman Lit. jmgood100 https://padlet.com/jmgood100/f9jiuycc1yab/wish/204914531 "I will not deny that when  i called to mind the sinister countenance of the person whom I met upon the staircase, on the day of my arrival at the house, I had no desire to oppose what I regarded as at best but a harmless and by no means an unnatural, precaution" (P 329).
This relates to gothic/roman lit. as the person on the stairwell looked mysterious. Gothic/roman lit. has a lot to do with a superstitious feeling.
"It had been used, apparently, in remote feudal times, for the worst purposes of a dungeon-keep, and, in later days, as a place of deposit for powder, or some other highly combustible substance, as a portion of its floor, and the whole interior of a long archway through which we reached it, were carefully sheathed with copper" (P 329-330). 
This is an example of the haunting landscapes and architecture of gothic lit. The room was once a dungeon but it was turned into a vault (not in the quote).]]> 2017-11-08 16:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jmgood100/f9jiuycc1yab/wish/204914531 Relations to Gothic/Roman Lit jmgood100 https://padlet.com/jmgood100/f9jiuycc1yab/wish/204917805 " The vault in which we placed it, has been so long unopened that our torches, half smothered in its oppressive atmosphere was small, damp, and entirely without the means of admission for light" (p. 329)
this relates to Gothic/Roman lit because it reproduces the mysterious atmosphere produced by the medieval castles. 
"An observable change came over the features of the mental disorder of my friend. His ordinary manner has vanished. His ordinary occupations were neglected or forgotten. He roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless steps." (p. 330)
This relates to Gothic/Roman lit because it is an example of power over imagination and you could see him wondering without knowing what he's doing. ]]> 2017-11-08 16:50:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jmgood100/f9jiuycc1yab/wish/204917805 Summary jmgood100 https://padlet.com/jmgood100/f9jiuycc1yab/wish/205357096 The Usher leads the author to a bunch of books. The author realize the Usher’s mental state is connected to the house. The Usher then tells that his family have collected books for years. All of those books have a reoccurring character of phantasm. The Usher had a work, he enjoyed, The Vigiliae Mortuorum Secundum Chorum Ecclesia Maguntinae. The author is curious of this weird choice of work. It has the “probable influence upon the hypochondriac”(pg.329). 

The Usher slowly crumbles. He says his wife is dead. He says that her corpse should be preserved. Usher had some suspicion of her death. The author recalls about the physician’s “sinister countenance” (pg.329). As the Usher request the author’s help in preserving the body, he complied. The author help preserve the body and help the Usher bring it to a dungeon-keep under the sleeping apartment. The author noticed a resemblance as if they were siblings. There was a grief moment for the usher. After a week placing the coffin, the author couldn’t fall asleep. He paced around til the Usher enters his chambers.  

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