Angela Higgerson Dr. Lewis ENGL 2041 3 March 2010 In both‚ Nathanial Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” and Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” the protagonists‚ Young Goodman Brown and the narrator experience a journey into the subconscious. Both stories have an overlap that blurs the boundaries of reality and fantasy. It is truly the supernatural aspects of these two stories that force the protagonists and the reader to delve into the realm of the subconscious
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Bipolar disorder affects many people today as well as in the time of Edgar Allen Poe when it was then called melancholia. Poe was diagnosed with this disorder and it plays an integral role in his story‚ “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839). This story is heavily influenced by this disorder or its presently associated symptoms and also describes one way that bipolar disorder can genetically affect an entire family. To fully understand a story involving this disorder‚ it is cardinal to know the
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works share the theme of death. “The Fall of the House of Usher”‚ “William Wilson” and “The Cask of Amontillado” all explore the theme of death; however‚ in each of these works Poe shows a different aspect of it. In “William Wilson” death is presented in an ambiguous and mysterious way‚ as the audience does not know whether William Wilson’s look-a-like is a haunting figure of his imagination or is a classmate that seems to know too much. “The Fall of the House of Usher” is presented through the narrator’s
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Psychoanalytical Approach to E. A. Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” The purpose of psychoanalytic criticism is to offer the reader a better understanding of a literary piece by the analysis and interpretation of certain aspects through psychoanalytical theory. The aim‚ as is the case with all critical approaches‚ is to go beyond the surface structure and into the deep structure of a text‚ this time through the study of the psyche and by looking for patterns which are significant and convey
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The two stories ‘The black cat’ and ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ portrays cases of anger‚ guilt and revenge. In the black cat‚ the man ends up feeling guilty of murdering the black cat‚ and in revenge he ends up killing his wife. This revenge also is what leads to him being sentenced to death by hanging. In his other story‚ Madeline is buried alive‚ and in revenge‚ she comes back to life and kills her sister and the house is made to crack. This paper will exploit how the theme of fear‚ guilt
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(T) In the story “Rip Van Winkle‚” by Washington Irving‚ the author’s portrayal of Dame Van Winkle is unfair because she has the right to be raged at Rip‚ he never works at his house‚ and he helps the town but not his wife.(D1) Dame Van Winkle is always raged at Rip but one may think she has the right to be raged.(S1) Dame does a lot of work at her house and when she is the only doing work she can get raged.(S2) She does the outdoor and the indoor work and when she does one may think she has the
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“The Devil and Tom Walker” and “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving are two very similar yet different stories. Both of these stories talk about the American Dream and how one can want it but be disappointed when one gets it. Tom and Rip both have wives that are turning points in the stories. They both nag so much that it drives them to crazy things. The imagery in these stories gives a real feel for the scenery and how it interacts with the stories. Van Winkle and Tom both get what they wanted
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towards. Furthermore‚ he uses these narrators to give a different perspective in each of his many works and to really unsettle the reader by what is occurring throughout the story. The narrators‚ whether an innocent witness of death as in “The Fall of the House of Usher” or a twisted murderer as in “The Cask of Amontillado” are used by Poe to discuss the themes of death and murder within these stories and‚ depending on their point of view‚ give a different take on such a despicable act such as murder.
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atmosphere and atypical plot developments. Consequently‚ in "The Fall of the House of Usher‚" Poe is distinguished as an author of unique‚ albeit grotesque ingenuity in addition to superb plot construction via his frequent use of the ominous setting to enhance the plot’s progression and his thematic exploration of science versus superstition. In the beginning of the story‚ with an extensive and vivid description of the house and its vicinity‚ Poe prepares the scene for a dreadful‚ bleak‚ and
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Washington Irving ’s short stories‚ characters manipulate the beliefs and superstitions of others for self-beneficence. A predominant sub-theme in these stories is romanticism. The four stories that will be discussed are "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"‚ "Rip Van Winkle"‚ "The Devil and Tom Walker"‚ and "The Spectre Bridegroom." There are clearly underlying aspects that seem to coincide in all of these stories. Though the author‚ Washington Irving‚ was mainly seen as a factual writer‚ these stories portray him
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