Imagine being inside a house with a mysterious force. Things happening all around you that terrify you. Imagine not being able to explain these phenomena. Both short stories, The Fall of the House Of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe and House Taken Over by Julio Cortazar, provide examples of this horror. Poe’s story implements this through his use of Gothic literary style, including his ominous description of Usher’s house. Whereas, Cortazar uses Magical Realism to make the supernatural seem normal. These two stories have several similarities and many differences. After acknowledging and reading both stories, there are obvious similarities. To inaugurate, both stories create a feeling of mystery and terror. Towards the end of The Fall of the House …show more content…
The narrator describes, “For a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold-then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated. From that chamber, and from that mansion, I fled aghast. While I gazed, this fissure rapidly widened-there came a fierce breath of the whirlwind-the entire orb of the satellite burst at once upon my sight-my brain reeled as I saw the mighty walls rushing asunder-there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand waters-and the deep and dark tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the ‘House of Usher,’” (Poe, 47-48). Carrying on, in House Taken Over, Irene and her brother’s house slowly get taken over by an unknown force, making it very strange and abnormal. According to the passage, “‘I had to shut the door to the passage. They’ve taken over the back part,” (Cortazar, …show more content…
Unlike House Taken Over, the setting is very standard and typical. Nothing seems off, as it's an everyday home. According to Poe, “The dining room, a living room with tapestries, the library and three large bedrooms in the section most recessed, the one that faces toward Rodriguez Pena,” (5) Both quotes indicate the difference in the settings. The Fall of the House of Usher creates a dark, depressing atmosphere, while House Taken Over starts somewhat tedious and gradually becomes unsettling. Secondly, the characters from each story had different reactions to the frightening events. While the characters from The Fall of the House of Usher responded expectedly, the characters from House Taken Over seemed unfazed by the intruder, and they didn’t respond
When comparing the stories “The Fall of the House of Usher” written by Edgar Allen Poe and “The House Taken Over” by Julio Cortazar. The setting in both are in a creepy, big house with a gothic style to it, which makes it more creepy. Both of the authors were a dark and demented type. Both in their stories have a big, empty house with a few people in them, with either kids that are living alone or with grandparents. Also both stories have a sense of having something under their sleeve to hit us with
“The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allen Poe and “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortázar they both express a sense of fear taking place in and around the two houses. In “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a short story where the narrator gets invited by his friend Usher to come and help him with his mental issues and Usher buries his twin sister thinking she was dead, in reality she wasn’t. In “House Taken Over” a magical creature pushes Irene and the narrator out of half of their house leaving
Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of the Usher", and in Julio Cortazar's "House Taken Over". In "The Fall of the House of the House of Usher", Rodrick Usher requests his old friend to visit him at his home because he is ill. Once he arrives, he realizes what a gloomy place the Usher mansion turns out to be and the tragedies of Usher's life. Spooky occurrences happen during the narrator's visit and he discovers that everything is not what it seems to be. In "House Taken Over", the narrator and
anxious and terrified, nothing can outdo fiction writers.Two writers who seek to terrify readers with their short stories are American writer Edgar Allan Poe, author of the Gothic short story, “Fall of the House of Usher,” published in 1839, and Argentinean writer Julio Cortazar, author of “House Taken Over,” a story written in the tradition of Magical Realism, published in 1946. While Poe and Cortazar seek to captivate readers with their respective stories, the two authors use their own unique technique
I have never read” the fall of the house of usher & the house taken over” then in class we listen to an audio reading of “the fall of the house of usher & the house taken over”. But I have read other stories such as.”House taken over” by Julio Cortazar and “the fall of the house of usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. Comparing them to see what is different and the same. These are the events of “the fall of the house of usher” by Julio Cortazar and the “house taken over” by Edgar Allan Poe that are the same
Wallpaper and The Fall of the House of Usher When literature first began to take flight in America, many of the stories written were of the Gothic variety. American society, at the time, seemed to connect with fantasy and reality, therefore many early writers wrote in the Gothic style. Most of these Gothic stories feature characters whose perceptions of themselves and the world around them are abnormal due to drug use, being in a dream state, or simply just madness. In comparing two short stories
Both Poe, in his short stories “The Fall of the house of Usher”, and Bierce, in his short story “One of the Missing”, expose their characters to fear. Ambrose Bierce uses the notions of freedom and stillness to make his character, Jerome Searing, evolve from a fearless individual to somebody completely terrorise and obsessed. On the other hand, Edgar Allan Poe exposes is character Roderick Usher to a dark, gloomy and isolate setting, which make Usher evolve from a person on a balance between sanity
Allegory, Symbolism, and Madness – Comparing the Demons of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne As contemporaries of each other, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne endeavored to write about man’s dark side, the supernatural influence, and moral truths. Each writer saw man as the center-point in his stories; Poe sees man’s internal struggle as madness, while Hawthorne sees man as having a “secret sin.” Each had their reasons for writing in the Gothic format. Poe was not a religious
the language style of the two stories. The historical backgrounds of both authors have influenced the way their stories are written. Poe was seen to have an unstable life as his mother died at and early age of three, and after that he was taken into a foster home of John Allan. He was educated at the University of Virginia. Later he went through a quarrel with his foster father and left home. He served in the U.S. Army under a false name, Edgar A. Perry, and incorrect age and then attended
climate to grow their products. Location of Cameron Balloons [IMAGE] Cameron Balloons are located in Bedminster, near Bristol. This not only gives it national status, but also international status as well. This attracts customers from all over the world, which intern