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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“The Fall of the House of Usher.” Poe’s use of every detailed feeling and visual imagery conveys the gradual‚ yet inevitable mental and physical demise of not only Rodrick‚ but also the fall of the House‚ and contributes to the fearful and enigmatic feeling the story gives the reader. Poe’s visual descriptions‚ whether through somber characterizations of the atmosphere or even the insufferable dysphoria during the long days with Rodrick‚ seem to connect Rodrick Usher and the House. The narrator does
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A Haunted House “A Haunted House” by Virginia Woolf‚ is a short story that tells the experience of a young couple‚ living in a house with a ghostly couple. The story begins with a “ghostly couple” looking for their treasure‚ in the house they previously lived in while alive. While alive‚ the ghosts lived in the house more than a century before the current residents. The woman died first‚ this is when the man left her and the house‚ he “went North‚ went East‚ saw the stars turned in the Southern
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A Doll’s House Author: Henrik Ibsen MAJOR CHARACTER: *Norma Helmer - Wife of Torvald *Torvald Helmer - husband of Nora *Dr. Rank - Rich family friend‚ who is secretly in love with Nora *Kristine Linde - Nora’s
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same story can get a whole new meaning. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”‚ Poe uses a first-person narrative instead of using a third-person narrative. This is done to give the reader a better sense of reality to the story. If the story was told in third person narrative the bedtime-story aspect would have been lost. Through the story being
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Boarding House Who is a victim and who an abuser in The Boarding House? Since the first paragraph of The Boarding House‚ there is a sense that Mrs. Mooney is the victim of an abusive husband- “...Mr. Mooney began to go to the devil. He Drank‚ plundered the till‚ ran headlong into debt.” The reader sees Mrs. Mooney as the woman who illustrates the difficulties a single mother faces raising a daughter‚ however her plan to marry her daughter into a higher class banishes any sympathy the reader feels
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d hiAlexa Nickell History 116 “Reader‚ I Married Him” Response 2 Reader‚ I Married Him Reader‚ I Married Him is an excerpt from a book called‚ “What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew.” The book was written by Daniel Pool‚ and was meant to be a commentary on the facts of daily life in nineteenth century England. Throughout the novel as a whole Pool goes over‚ fact by fact‚ what it was like to live in nineteenth century England‚ something that many people know hardly anything about.
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“The Doll” Once upon a time in Northern Montana ‚ the deep in the haunted woods of QUARRYFALLS were screaming ‚ where the branches were never straight and where the leaves never grow‚ a 16 year old girl was running from nothing and screaming about a red eyed beast. The rest of the 302 POPULATION was asleep and could not hear her. That steals your soul and pierces your heart. She finally stopped in the middle of eight trees that surrounded her like they were alive(simile). It was wearing a pink
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Dolls. We are surrounded by dolls. G. I. Joe‚ Barbie‚ Polly Pocket‚ and WWF action figures. Prior to our plasticene friends we had paper dolls‚ marionettes‚ and delicately featured porcelain dolls. We are strangely fascinated by these cold‚ lifeless objects that look so much like ourselves. Children clutch them and create elaborate scenes‚ while adults are content to simply collect‚ allowing them to sit‚ motionless on a shelf‚ staring coolly back at their live counterparts. Which brings us to and
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A Vine on the House Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce has a special talent of keeping readers alert on their toes and holding their breaths till the very last word. I believe Mr. Bierce wanted to allow others to understand that circumstances and events are not always what they appear to be. The words Mr. Harding expressed and the reality of the situation were two complete opposites. He kept a secret of his wife’s “disappearance” and also picked up everything and left‚ leaving no signs behind
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