The Fall of the House of Usher

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The Fall of the House of Usher
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Setting Descriptions

• Scene 1
• -Narrator looking at house
• -House decaying (fungi)
• -Eye-like windows
• -Dead trees
• -Gloomy atmosphere
• -House looks creepier in reflection of tarn

Scene 2 -Servant takes horse -Valet leads
inside -Dark, gloomy interior -Sees
(shady?)doctor on stairs -High ceilings, auits of
armor -Everything old, sad tattered, dusty,
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Sentence Combining ActivityDirections Combine
all of the following simple sentences into ONE
compound-complex sentence.

• I had been passing.
• It was through a tract of country.
• I was on horseback.
• I was alone.
• The tract was singularly dreary.
• This occurred during the whole of a day.
• The day was dull.
• The day was dark.
• The day was soundless.
• It was in the autumn of the year.
• The clouds hung oppressively low.
• They were in the heavens.
• The shades of evening drew on.
• At length I found myself within view of
  something.
• I viewed a house.
• It was the House of Usher.
• It was melancholy.

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What does dense writing mean?

• DURING THE WHOLE of a dull, dark, and soundless
  day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds
  hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been
  passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly
  dreary tract of country and at length found
  myself, as the shades of the evening drew on,
  within view of the melancholy House of Usher.

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Important Details

• Scene 4
• Narrator tries in vain to cheer up Usher. They
• -play instruments
• -paint
• -read books aloud
• -talk

• Scene 3
• Narrator sees Usher,
• who is shockingly
• -pale
• -thin
• -agitated
• -unkempt
• -afraid
• -See Madeline (cataleptic)

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Scene 6 -Usher acts even more agitated -Narrator
cant sleep -Usher comes to show him rising
storm extremely wild wind and everything glowing
green -As narrator reads, same noises are
heardUsher paranoid

• Scene 5
• -Usher informs narrator of Madelines death
• -Narrator and Usher place Madelines coffin in a
  vault rather than risk her body being
  grave-robbed (by doctors wishing to study her
  unusual illness).

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• Scene 7 Scene 8
• Madeline shows up House splits,collapes
• Bloody blood-red moon
• Emaciated Tarn covers ruins
• Reeling
• Usher and her
• collapse

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Scene 6 -Usher acts even more agitated -Narrator
cant sleep -Usher comes to show him rising
storm extremely wild wind and everything glowing
green -As narrator reads, same noises are
heardUsher paranoid

• Scene 5
• -Usher informs narrator of Madelines death
• -Narrator and Usher place Madelines coffin in a
  vault rather than risk her body being
  grave-robbed (by doctors wishing to study her
  unusual illness).

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Scene 6 -Usher acts even more agitated -Narrator
cant sleep -Usher comes to show him rising
storm extremely wild wind and everything glowing
green -As narrator reads, same noises are
heardUsher paranoid

• Scene 5
• -Usher informs narrator of Madelines death
• -Narrator and Usher place Madelines coffin in a
  vault rather than risk her body being
  grave-robbed (by doctors wishing to study her
  unusual illness).