House of Usher

We Die at Dawn: Interior Droning Writing for Interiors Journal on the subject of interior design in Expressionist film, Architectural Designer, Mehruss Jon Ahi states, “These films focus on a reality that has been invaded and plagued by the irrational and cynical thoughts of its characters, and consequently, the sets in these films resemble their distress.” (Ahi, IntJournal.com) No other Expressionist film represents this stated distress better than Robert Weine’s 1920 classic, The Cabinet of…

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse and The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan are both great sources of information about the Dust Bowl during the ”Dirty Thirties. ”̣ However, they are very different in style. Out of the Dust is a fictional story written in a poem format and uses extensive figurative language. While The Worst Hard Time is more of a textbook format book that gives more in depth detail, background detail of the Dust Bowl, and uses eyewitness accounts to describe the horrors of the…

Recently in class, we have been reading short stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. There are many allusions, allegories, and symbols in his work, so we have been focusing on finding those. Two repeating leitmotifs in his work are the devil and evil. These reoccur in many of his pieces, including Minister’s Black Veil, Scarlet Letter, and Young Goodman Brown. After reading both Minister’s Black Veil and Young Goodman Brown, we can see that the devil is a very important reference that is found…

romantic tone in his writings because it showed him how evil people can really be. Born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804. Hawthorne grow up in a family of Puritans that worship the omnipotent God. As an only son Nathaniel had to move to his Uncles house do to the loss of his father. Nathaniel's father was a sea captain and died during a sail in 1808 from yellow fever. The loss of his father at such of young age prompt him of how cruel the human world could be…

The next gothic element I see to be carried around in the book is the high, overwrought emotion. “Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.” This part of the story is one that sticks out to me when it…

Brad MacFee ENGL-102-75A 12/3/2017 Essay #4 How the Tell-Tale Signs of Schizophrenia Provide a Motive for Killing “The Tell-Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allan Poe, features a schizophrenic narrator who recounts the sequence of events leading up to the murder of an old man and his eventual confession to the murder. Throughout the story, the narrator exhibits many strange behaviors that suggest that he is quite abnormal. For example, the narrator describes his extreme vendetta against, not the old man,…

continues throughout the novel and various characters who visit the house experience it. After being brought to 124, Beloved immediately mentions, “This place is heavy” (Morrison 65). The use of heavy could contain a doubling meaning because Beloved comes from an alternate spirit would, so she is likely referring to both earth as a whole and 124’s depressive environment. Paul D. also notes 124’s environment during his first visit to the house where he steps through “a pool of red and undulating…

Mayfair Rucker Friday, December 1, 2017 C Block Analysis of Language in The Handmaid’s Tale There is a proverb that came to my mind when reading The Handmaid’s Tale: “The pen is mightier than the sword.” There is more to our language than strict grammar and spelling; words carry beliefs with them, and so they can harm or heal you at the deepest levels of your being. I was caught off guard with how well Atwood portrays this theme in The Handmaid’s Tale. While Gilead does use force to keep their…

Edgar Allan Poe was a famous writer, mostly writing short stories and poems. He was known for his mysteries, horror stories. Arguably, his most popular and well known pieces of work is “The Raven”. In this essay I will be discussing the mysterious events that led up to Poe’s death and discussing the theories that are the most popular. Edgar Allan Poe’s death could have been caused due to a number of theories, the theories I will be discussing are death by alcohol poisoning, rabies, and the most…

Research Essay on literature contexts and themes of the both stories “A Good Man is Hard to find” by Flannery O’Connor and “The Tell-Tale” by Edger Poe have several areas of contrast and similarity. One of the aspects that portray this relationship is the many contexts (Historic)and symbolism in which the stories were written, which explains how it impacted their creation and their featured themes. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is typical of the macabre themes for which Poe became popular. The book is…