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    might be a similar image to William Wilson’s double, that intervened in Paris, while D. is blackmailing the queen. In William Wilson the concepts of self and the other are relative because it depends from which perspective you are watching. Moreover, William Wilson introduce besides the idea of double the problem of imitation or mimesis. The double of William Wilson started to look more like the narrator after a process of imitation, which was the former’s…

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    Fear, horror, death, and gloom are prominent traits of Gothicism, a dark type of Romanticism, a style prominent throughout the 18th and 19th century. Edgar Allan Poe, a well-known gothic writer has written many works, two of his works, “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Pit and the Pendulum”, are perfect examples of gothic literature. In “The Fall of the House of Usher”, Poe introduces the Usher family, an ill and suffering family, both physically and mentally. With only two heirs left,…

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    several romantic characteristics, such as high emotions, nature and a focus on individuality. The short stories “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe contain many of these elements, and in this paper I will analyze why these are classified as Gothic stories. The first attribute that categorizes Poe’s works…

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    In traditional settings, the home is one’s safe haven. It protects one from the surrounding world in a literal sense seeing that it provides shelter from external forces, but also figuratively since a house provides a serene place one is able to find comfort in. The house in The Fall of the House of Usher does neither. In fact, it does the complete opposite. Rather than providing comfort, it elicits fear in both the characters and the reader. The root of this fear stems from Poe’s use of the…

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    Based on his symptoms, today he would probably be diagnosed with Sensory Processing Disorder, a condition where someone “may over-respond to sensation and find clothing, physical contact, light, sound, food, or other sensory input to be unbearable” (SPD Foundation). Roderick himself confessed that his ailments were physical manifestations of his own mental disorder. He believed the house was draining the life out of him and his sister, who puzzled doctors with an unknown disease that caused her…

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    many years prior, and is filled with dramatic irony and foreshadowing. The story, set in Italy, examines the conflict between two noble houses; that of Montresor and the rival Fortunato. The story concludes with Montresor immuring Fortunato in the tunnels where his ancestors are buried. This theme of premature burial is mirrored in a few other of Poe’s stories, including “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839). Unlike the horror invoked…

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