... Narrator view the face of the vault's tenant it leaves one to believe that the entombment of Madeline Usher is in a sense dreadful, freakishly odd, and gloomy. To add, the storms and natural phenomena occurring in the story appertain to the sensation of terror. The Narrator describes "The impetuous fury of the entering gust". It causes the reader to vision a violent wind ... breath of a whirlwind" caused "the mighty walls" of the House of Usher to collapse. Wrathful wind projects an ominous sensibility and further adds a fearful touch. A "blood-red moon" restates the death of the Usher...

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... the ways people viewed the universe. Scientific investigation seemed to show that the universe was organized according to certain unchanging laws, and that people could discover those laws through the use of their reason. This new belief then combined common sense with ideas from European thinkers. From this mixtures of outlooks came a very triumphant time in American life, encouraging writers such as ... INDEPENDENCE. The AMERICAN ROMANTICISM PERIOD existed from 1783-1886. The romantic sensibility was hard to define because it was a movement that went beyond national, chronological, an...

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