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 house is given a supernatural and unusu ....
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.... 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 seems to have a heightened sense of unreality, as if he is hallucinating. Poe uses descriptive words such as decayed, strange, peculiar, gray, mystic, Gothic, pestilent, ....
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Number of words: 1020
Number of pages: 4 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)
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