Evaluation:
Published: 26.11.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays '"The Fall of The House of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe', 1.
Extract

Very haunted house - anthropomorphised house. It has three levels: attic, main floor, cellar. It has structure but it also makes you question whether it is one or two houses. It promotes a feeling of gloom, like a black wall. The scene is attempted to be reorganised into a double. Doubling happens in order to escape desolation.
Family: Metions of questions and problems to do with descent and generation. Hint of incest is raised. Troubled family line. There is a return to the description of the setting which evokes another doubling. …

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