LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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Red
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Blue
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Green
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Yellow
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Detailed explanation-1: -What color tint were the windows that made the narrator feel uneasy? Red. When did the story take place? 1805.
Detailed explanation-2: -For example, Roderick’s sitting room is shadowy, cluttered, and cheerless, leading the narrator to say that he felt as though he ‘’breathed an atmosphere of sorrow” and that ‘’an air of stern, deep, and irredeemable gloom hung over and pervaded all.
Detailed explanation-3: -According to Roderick, Madeline suffers from a cataleptic disease that has gradually limited her mobility. As Roderick talks about his sister’s illness, the narrator sees her pass through a distant part of the house. Shall dawn upon him, desolate!)
Detailed explanation-4: -When the narrator sees Roderick Usher, he is shocked at the change in his old friend. Never before has he seen a person who looks so much like a corpse with a “cadaverousness of complexion.” Death is in the air; the first meeting prepares us for the untimely and ghastly death of Roderick Usher later in the story.
Detailed explanation-5: -First Person (Peripheral Narrator)