LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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winding staircases
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unexplained illnesses
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an extreme storm
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a decaying or crumbling mansion
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Detailed explanation-1: -“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-2: -This genre is dark, eerie, and mysterious, often containing elements of terror, horror, and the macabre and the bizarre. Common themes and motifs of the Gothic include power, confinement, and isolation.
Detailed explanation-3: -Poe through his story created a line between reality and imagination which attracted the romantic readers more to his writings. The story The Fall of The House of Usher represents a number of dark romanticism characteristics such as mystery, horror and madness of character.
Detailed explanation-4: -Setting in a castle. An atmosphere of mystery and suspense. An ancient prophecy is connected with the castle or its inhabitants (either former or present). Omens, portents, visions. Supernatural or otherwise inexplicable events. High, even overwrought emotion. Women in distress. More items