Theme Between The Fall Of The House Of Usher And A Rose For Emily

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01//12/16
Center V0006 Prompt : Examine how the authors use the theme of insanity in the stories: The Fall of the House of Usher, and A Rose for Emily.

In the short stories of The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe and A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner the theme of insanity has a place in both stories that is showed in due time. The Fall of the House of Usher has the narrator be one of the protagonist that has importance in showing how insanity takes over the story. The narrator comes to the aid of his sick old friend Mr. Roderick Usher, who believes is in his last days and would like to have his old friend around before he goes to the other side. Insanity in this story is shown since the narrator arrives the house, and the mere presence of the house and its surroundings grasps the narrator’s mind, and makes him to immediately think that something is wrong about the place, also the use of literary devices that Poe expresses through the narrator that make the story seem bizarre. Not to mention the use of mood and scenery to set the tone of the story. The other short story, A Rose for Emily, the protagonist Emily is the daughter of a high social standing family. Her father would not let her marry, for he thought that the other
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Both of the stories use character actions and state of being to show the theme of insanity and ill state of being, it is also set by the mood and setting that are given in the beginning and continuity of the stories. There is the use of literary devices that make the reader feel worried, and filled with suspense, for the authors make it clear that the protagonist of the stories are not in a good state of mind, and are more than likely insane. These are the ways in which insanity is part of the theme of both

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