Similarities Between The Fall Of The House Of Usher And House Taken Over

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There are many similarities that we could obviously realize between the two stories “The Fall of the House of Usher” of Edgar Allan Poe and “House Taken Over” of Julio Cortazar. One of them is the settings of two stories, those were similar because they both took place in a creepy house. However, there also are many differences between two stories. For example, in Poe’s story, the setting was a dull and dark night, and the gloomy and dusty house of Usher was in the middle of nowhere. By contrast, Cortazar's setting was a warmer house, which was being carefully cleaned by the brother and sister every day.
Gothic Literature is a literary genre that combines the elements of fiction and the ideas that is related to horror, death, or supernatural. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a good example of Gothic literature because it contains the elements of this literary genre, and one of them is the bleak setting of the story. An example of this in

Julio Cortazar's “House Taken Over” is a good example of Magical Realism because it contains those two elements in it. An example in the story for the first element, reality, is the line “We rose at seven in the morning and got the cleaning done, and about eleven I left Irene to finish off whatever rooms and went to the kitchen. We lunched at noon precisely; then there was nothing left to do but a few dirty plate” (38). Another example that is for the second element, fantasy, is “...I heard the noise in the kitchen, then the bath, the passage off at that angle dulled the sound” (41). These two are examples of the Magical Realism because they show the two elements of the literary genre, reality and fantasy. They show that the characters of the story, Irene and his brother, have a normal life with daily activities of ordinary people, but strange things still happen in their lives, in their