https://padlet.com/aqdo101/fg4kwq789hrd Chloe Arceneaux Amy Do Anh Tran en-us 2017-11-08 17:35:56 UTC 2023-06-01 19:40:06 UTC hello@padlet.com aqdo101 https://padlet.com/aqdo101/fg4kwq789hrd/wish/204947576
"The disease of the lady Madeline had long baffled the skill of her physicians. A settled apathy, a gradual wasting away of the person, and frequent although transient affections of a partially cataleptical character, were the unusual diagnosis." (326)

Skilled doctors were perplexed by Madeline's illness connects to the themes: mystery and supernatural imagination/landscapes. Skilled physicians who were capable of diagnosing and prescribing a number of illnesses were expected. Thus, the ensuing confusion was unforeseen, mystifying doctors and Roderick. The explainable illness was then assumed to be the work of supernatural forces.

"One of the phantasmagoric conceptions of my friend, partaking not so rigidly, although feebly, in words.... N outlet was observed in any portion of its vast extent, and no torch, or...source of light was discernible..." (327) 

The narrator depicts the mysterious atmosphere and construction of a part of the house. He creates a mysterious setting by describing a low, claustrophobic tunnel that seemed unending. The mysterious, smooth, perpetual tunnel was further enhanced by the darkness described. It portrays the cold, dark, dry, and empty vaulting.

]]> 2017-11-08 17:38:27 UTC https://padlet.com/aqdo101/fg4kwq789hrd/wish/204947576 aqdo101 https://padlet.com/aqdo101/fg4kwq789hrd/wish/204951390 Lady Madeline, Usher's sister, suffered of an unusual diagnosis of Catalepsy. Although Usher knew of her diagnosis he chose to ignore the scuffle he heard within the coffin. Usher had become emaciated over the time of this tragedy of his beloved sister because of his unwillingness to eat. To distract himself from his sister’s death, Roderick Usher began to elaborate fancy brooded paintings. One painting showed of the interior of a long and rectangular ball that seemed to be shadowed forth his perception of himself. The painting seemed to romanticize the gothly version of himself.
The morbid condition of Usher’s condition did not allow him to enjoy the pleasures of music, more specifically stringed instruments. He once was a character of his performances by his impromptus performances. Usher’s dear friend marveled at how well put together Usher’s lyrics were. Most of his works had become a manifest of Usher’s opinions. Before Usher had been affected by his condition he was a more daring character and focused his writings about a world of inorganic objects.]]> 2017-11-08 17:44:28 UTC https://padlet.com/aqdo101/fg4kwq789hrd/wish/204951390 aqdo101 https://padlet.com/aqdo101/fg4kwq789hrd/wish/205402708 2017-11-09 17:39:17 UTC https://padlet.com/aqdo101/fg4kwq789hrd/wish/205402708 aqdo101 https://padlet.com/aqdo101/fg4kwq789hrd/wish/205404361 The narrator describes Roderick's "long improvised dirges will forever ring in [his] ears" and that he had 'a certain singular perversion and amplification of the air of the last waltz of Von Weber" (326).The allusion to other composers suggests that Roderick's acclaimed impromptu performances were previously written and rehearsed.]]> 2017-11-09 17:41:58 UTC https://padlet.com/aqdo101/fg4kwq789hrd/wish/205404361