1. The Fall of the House of Usher: A mind into madness
... derived from personification of the house's physical aspects. These hints are brought out through redundant repetition of obvious connections that can be made to elicit the house as a human mind. Repeating descriptions referring to the windows as "vacant eye-like windows" portraying the house as an actual face, but looking deeper it is interpreted that the house is actually symbolic to a mind as "through two luminous windows saw spirits moving musically to ... a lute's well-tuned law" the reader sees the internal aspect of the house, primarily as a soul, the key to the mind ( Poe 1,2,6)...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate