LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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decayed trees
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minute fungi
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a dark tarn
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abandoned graveyard
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Detailed explanation-1: -In a direct line of descent. What covers the outer walls of the mansion? Fungi.
Detailed explanation-2: -“The Fall of the House of Usher” possesses the quintessential-features of the Gothic tale: a haunted house, dreary landscape, mysterious sickness, and doubled personality. For all its easily identifiable Gothic elements, however, part of the terror of this story is its vagueness.
Detailed explanation-3: -Poe uses the term house to describe both the physical structure and the family. On the one hand, the house itself appears to be actually sentient, just as Roderick claims. Its windows are described as “eye-like, ” and its interior is compared to a living body. Roderick suspects that the house controls its inhabitants.
Detailed explanation-4: -In “The Fall of the House of Usher, ” the main conflict is focused on Roderick Usher’s fear. Usher lives in a state of anxious paranoia, afraid he will die because of fear. His friend, the unnamed narrator, is drawn into this fear as he visits to try to help Usher recover from his mental malady.