In "The Fall of the House of Usher"‚ Poe uses the life-like characteristics of the decaying house of Usher as a device for giving the house a supernatural atmosphere. This not only makes the story act upon the reader in a grabbing way‚ but it also creates an impression of fear‚ mystery and horror‚ typical for Poe’s literary works. For example‚ from the very beginning of the story‚ the reader can tell that there is something unusual and bizarre about the old house. As the narrator approaches the
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A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen Web-Books.Com A Doll’s House Dramatis Personae .............................................................................................................. 3 ACT I .................................................................................................................................. 4 ACT II............................................................................................................................... 44 ACT III...............
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IFUGAO HOUSE OR ISKET It is a small enclosed structure‚ a one-room affair that serves as living and sleeping room‚ kitchen and dining room. It is elevated above the ground by four posts made of sturdy tree-trunks with roots intact. It has solid panels for walls and tightly thatched roofing. The two main base girders – the horizontal support (at the front and back) just on top of the posts are held to these posts by dowels. No nails are used. The Ifugao carve each part of the house as interlocking
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Analysis of Gregory House By Becca Kinkoph 6th per. Psychology 4-15-09 In the show‚ House M.D.‚ there is an especially difficult doctor whom people cannot help but love despite his unpleasant demeanor. This is Doctor Gregory House. He specializes in diagnosing rare medical anomalies with the help of his team of diagnosticians: Foreman‚ Chase‚ and Cameron. House is somewhat a mystery to his team members and everyone else. He is a cynical and bitter medical genius who can sometimes come
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Abstract The Winchester house is full of twist and turns. Mrs. Winchester built things upside down‚ doors leading to no where‚ and staircases also. Mrs.Wichester had a great life going for her‚ good at music and everybody loved her. Once she got married‚ it seemed everything went downhill. Her only child dies as a infant and couple of years later her husband. Now she is left with tons of money and owning half of the stock market‚ she goes and meet with a medium. The medium tells her that her husband
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narrator approaching a large and dreary-looking estate. As he approaches on horseback‚ he muses on the images before him‚ the darkness of the house‚ the oppressiveness of the clouds above‚ the eye-like windows‚ the ragged fissure in the side of the house‚ the fungi on the walls‚ and the reflection of it all in a nearby lake. He notes that some parts of the house are crumbling and other parts are not. He sits astride his horse‚ thinking about the letter he received that initiated his trip and feeling
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The main thing is‚ why don’t they just leave? The answer in the best haunted house literature is‚ they don’t leave because they cannot. Something keeps them inside. When someone takes on a house they form a bond between self and architecture. Houses are where people have to go when they are trying to hide. This makes it all the more terrifying when the houses turn on us. Our houses are everywhere. Author Shirley Jackson doesn’t require her characters to investigate and discover the real identity
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alleyway‚ past all the gated post-modern mansions that seem to each exist in their own worlds behind lines of lush green foliage and stark white concrete walls. At the end of the road is The Eames House‚ Case Study House #8—the archetypal symbol of post-modernism. The moment you walk onto the grounds of the house‚ the world changes—removed from the bustling traffic of Pacific Coast Highway‚ away from the beachgoers indulging in the California summer in the middle of winter. The birds chirp‚ sing‚ and flutter
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Roderick Usher is a symbol. The Fall of the House of Usher’s a comprehensive‚ symbolic account of the madness and dishonesty of an individual’s personality. The death of Madeline and Roderick was the decision that Roderick chose to make. The symbol Wilbur is referring to is an allegorical figure representing the hypnagogic state which‚ the condition of the mind occurring ‘upon the very brink of sleep.’ Roderick Usher‚ standing for the hypnagogic state and the house collapsing‚ is someone falling asleep
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BOARDING-HOUSE‚ a private house in which the proprietor provides board and lodging for paying guests. The position of a guest in a boarding-house differs in English law‚ to some extent‚ on the one hand from that of a lodger in the ordinary sense of the term‚ and on the other from that of a guest in an inn. Unlike the lodger‚ he frequently has not the exclusive occupation of particular rooms. Unlike the guest in an inn‚ his landlord has no lien upon his property for rent or any other debt due in respect
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