Flashcards About Fall Of The House Of Usher Analysis
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What is atmosphere in a literary work?
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The mood or feeling created in a piece of writing.
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What are the narrator's first impressions of the House of Usher.
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He feels a sense of gloom and fear
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How does the narrator know Usher?
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They were childhood friends.
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What details of the house seem significant?
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The crack running down the font of the house, fungi covering the house, the inconcistancy of the appearance of stability and the crumbling house.
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What is accomplished by directly linking the house and the family?
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The decaying of the mansion is suggesting t hat the family is also decaying.
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What does the presence of the physician foreshadow?
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illness or death
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What parallels are there between Usher and the house?
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His face is white like the decaying tree trunks. His hair is grown out like the fungi.
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What does Usher seem to be suffering from?
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a nervous condition
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How could we describe the narrator?
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He tries to cheer up his friend, he seem truly concerned.
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What does Usher's song reveal about his mind-frame?
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He is depressed. His mind was once healthy but is now taken over by the disorder.
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Where is the vault located?
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Under the narrator's room.
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What does the narrator notice about Madeline's appearance in the coffin?
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She still has color in her face and has a smile on her face.
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How does Usher change after his sister's death?
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he is depressed, but fearful.
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What does the strange whirlwind symbolize?
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chaos and the climax
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what does the narrator try to do to calm down Usher?
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read to him
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What is Usher's reaction to the noises?
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The turns his chair to the door, rocks back and forth, and talks to himself.
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What happens in the climatic scene?
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Madeline appears to get her revenge.
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What happens to Usher? The House? And the Narrator?
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Usher dies, the house crumbles into the lake, narrator runs away screaming.
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What does the final fall of the house represent?
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the fall of the family
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What could the widening crack symbolize?
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the flaw that caused the family's downfall.
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what does the narrator men when he says "Such opinions need no comment?"
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he realizes at this point that Usher is completely deranged.
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What does Usher want to do with the dead body of his sister? What reasons does he give for this?
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put it in the vault, the family grounds are easily accessible, doctors ask strange questions, her disorder was very unusual.
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What three noises are heard during the reading?
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Breaking down the hermits door-wood creaking-madeline breaking her coffin. death cry of dragon- screeching- metal door of the vault. brass shield falling-metal clinging-madeline struggling through vault.
