Edgar Allen Poes Fall Of The H
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The Fall of the House of Usher
In Edgar Allen Poe's, "Fall of the House of Usher", Poe utilizes life-like characteristics of a decaying house to give it an unnatural or supernatural atmosphere, and in effect bring it’s inhabitants to their impending doom.
From the beginning of the story, the ....
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.... the house, “the vacant eye-like windows…upon a few rank sedges—and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees—with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium” (718). This statement contributes to the collective atmosphere of despair and anguish, the narrator tries to view everything he sees in a rational manner, but upon looking at the house and its surroundings, he seem ....
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