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Soft Rains character t thousand attendant


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Altar with 's
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setting Religious IMAN [


yuoineratorw evil baal .
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snapped up
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Shade
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Treatment of Animals
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covered with sores
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inconvenience
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mechanical "

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paranoia
✓ poetry
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during five [
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House tragic nursery rhyme "

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last
cleaning wire
darting bravely out

Atmosphere betting bared skeleton


airing from the heat
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soft rains p
espouse to fire f- ''

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Faucet mouth
poetry
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gushing green chemical
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's S Matisse 's


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picasso
characterization of fire
✓ "
sparks
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co billion angry
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fire
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was clever

purple giraffe
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blue lions ,
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of house

Description during fire
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last out
cleaning mice darting bravely
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characterization of "

Loosening crucifix
"


GAM Resistance to religion
-
"
twisted her head from side to side "
of
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vase irises
Bro BSGAM Imagery of ✓ and heat "
Relationship "
inwards brown
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L ,

eating
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roses
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heights
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Great
Expectations
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f Wuthering
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translucent and
profiling
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Indistinct "

Christ
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carnage
letters [
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Loss of in
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Brother Benignus
Relationship between
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Elastic band snapped
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G AMS Boy
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Thick but brittle
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otaku "

paper glare
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eyes her blazed
GAM [ "

Rage you are dirt


"
-

L struck
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him "

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red and black
"


Ending of the story L fire
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dealing envelopes into the


"
-

head down his books"


"
on

Setting in secrets flower imagery + description of desk tending of story


SECRETS -

" "
Resistance to
Religion .

Loosening crucifix
crucifix e metonymy for Christianity
"

loosening Great Aunt Mary


'

during the state near death still


"
e
rejection ,

has not
forgetten or
forgivento her religion that took away John
"
Twisted her head from side side"
of John S him leaving
"

twisted" e the memories her is so traumatic that


pain
-

she feels physical pain remembering it


twisted s movement of rejection again reinforcing her yearn for Brother
-
" "

Beni
guns she might still be pleading for him not to leave even at her death bed
-

Vase of Irises
"
Symbolism of flowers
"

• his is traditional of loves faith in context tenaciousness towards


symbol
-
=

,
Brother
Benignus
Fresh → she has
forgotten their relationship of them if
-

not =
memories are as new
"
Inwards brown S heat ,
"

Inwards has
"
she not told about Brother
Benignus
"
s
plans to keep it until
anyone
-

her
grave (does not want to
trigger painful memories

decay →
"
Brown A
GAM dies , all traces of their love die with her , evokes
"
as
-

pity in readers
ending towards their
"
clean relationship
"
-

Neat s
"
"
Tiny Roses
love between GAM S Bw B
"
Roses context
"
a
symbol of romantic love , in this
-

" "
tiny weak fire shadows to readers their love
enough to keep them together
not =
-

e ,
is

the
brutality of is more
powerful war in
comparison S tears
them
apart

Impact on
"
Great Expectations
"

GAM after Wuthering Heights


" "

war
-

AU where the
stories the man leaves woman alone, and the woman waits
• for him for her whole life for him to come back
Insinuates GAM Bw B , still wishes him to back
really let
go of for come
-

never

to her

May be reeds to boy beeuz doesnt want him to suffer the same fate
-

"

Profile Ring
"

Ring → symbol ofrelationship secured by marriage


-

a -

Lying to the boy that the ring is not Bro B's


-
Does not want to believe that such a close romantic relationship could ever

be broken
" "
translucent and Indistinct
translucent e semi transparent want to forget Bw B completely but still has him
-

,
-

Indistincta although tries to


forget him, fails to cut all ties :
still loves him .
Loss of love in
"
Christ has spoken to me
through the carnage"
letters Christ metonymy of Religion
-

- -

Carnage
-

-
violent imagery ,
the first fold of it
destroying John 's hope ,

second fold of it destroying who


his love for her

Spoken huge irony e it was GAM was


speaking to him all
along
-
-
-

Benign
"
"
Brother us

Representation of the charges of John war has his


destroyed identity
- -

Before John l Iggy playful name called by radiates love and joy
"
lover
- "
,

love
Now Brother
Benign lacks and
-
" "

Joy
e
us

GAM said he died in the


Just as war , now
belongs to Jesus (
religion)
-

Description of Desk
"
Elastic band snapped
"

Elastic band e s mo l of bond between GAIUS narrator


y
-

ElastRe great extent , flexible , but Bro B is GAM 's bottom line
fun
"

Snapped
"
sudden , cannot be
-

e seen
-

foreshadow the cut in relationship


Thick but brittle
" "

Thicke
great extent
-

broken
Brittle e
easily
-

"

paper glare
"

Glare -
-
accusation at look at someone

paper personified to warn


boy of consequence of defying twist
-

foreshadows heavy consequences


-

" "
GAM rage eyes blazed
-

blazed a
fire shows extent of
e
rage
GAM enraged by just the letters she actually angry at
is is more
-
-
-

Boo B and herself ,


she is Just spilling the anger on boy
"

dirt
"

you are

dirt unworthy tainted


"
-
s
,

Exaggeration of situation boy is not


actually tainted
-

.
,

Not unworthy of her love Just Bro B is her trigger


-

Ending
"
of story
"
Red and black
-

Red t love black ,


e
death
=
Intertwined
-
Red =
love for Bro B passionate,
-

Black =
death in war that tore them apart, and loneliness afterwords .

GAM still only


stubbornly loves him , death has him stopped
-
"

Dealing envelopes
"

Deal :
quick orderly
,
as if the letters are
merely cards
-

Lost worth that others


may not understand
The love they carry dissap ears with death
-

"
Head down
"
on his books
Head →
thoughts still remembers and longs for his aunt
-

Books e links to stories she told him before yearns for childhood
-

love with Aunt .


THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
Characterization of
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hair ) THEMES

f-
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Rodrick Description of Rodrick


"
MAD Wess
large liquid luminous eyes
"
- "
PARANOIA
setting of the house
anmbhng of individual stories
"

Relationshipbetween
Exterior of House -

E "
barely susceptible fissure
empty eye
-

like windows "


"

Rodrick and Madeline


{
thesilted panes "
"

House
Interior light
"
of enaims oned
"

"
sombre tapestries "
"

agitated
"

{
vapour
tortured
"
The storm rising tempest
"
,
"
blood red moon
"

bounden
"
slave
"

Rodrick
welcoming { you strained effort of the en nu
"

ye man

softness (hair)
"
Rodrick Descrip
"
.
web like -

web like
entanglement physical untidiness impact of Madeline him
-

on
, ,
does not mind his own appearance
softness weakness , lost sister counterpart
-

connection between Roderick and Madeline ,


web like
becoming soft e
-

-
no

more sturdiness
emaciated fingers
" "

emaciated a
very thin e
physical and emotional toll
cannot survive with another
-

emaciated fingers a weak , fingers ability


-

" "
large liquid luminous
, ,
"
-

alliteration of soft consonant " l t feeble


liquid → tears agony and despair
-

luminous s
appear bright compared to face stress
-

"
individual
of Qu Crumbling of
''
Exterior stones
-

crumbling
a deterioration of physical 1 mental state of Roderick and
also his relationship with Madeline
-

individual loneliness Roderick cannot survive alone


e
,
he will =
crumble
stones e inanimate , lifeless foreshadow Madeline 's death
-

Bane by susceptible fissure "

fissures break in bloodline that Usher family extinction ,foreshadows


.

are last
Roderick and Madeline of the inbred bloodline
-

fissures between Madeline and Roderick the barely susceptible fissure . ,

will soon widen


pushing Roderick into insanity
,
''
"

Empty eye
-
like windows
-

empty e lack of soul ,


Roderick consumed by fear of sister's death and
paranoia of sister's resurrection
windows , Roderick's
eye like a anthropomorphize reflects superstition that
- -

house is living and haunted


-

eyes gateway to soul , shows reader the insanity within house

Thesilled
" "
panes
Thesilted bars of cage in
crossing
e
squares
-

imprisoned by fear unable to


escape the thought of Madeline haunting
-

him
Thesided e
physically imprisoned has to take care of Madeline
-

,
Cannot till death
-

"
escape "
En crimsoned
light
-

crimson -
-
blood , foreshadow death of Madeline and creates atmosphere
of gloom for the reader .

armson = a color of love , insinuates possible incest between Roderick


and Madeline
Sombre tapestries
"
"

sombre =
aura of depression and hopelessness that persists in house both ,

before and after Madeline death


-

tapestries elegant
-
-

,
should inspire inhabitants , exactly opposite
awe in
here -

peculiar and paranormal ility in house

Surroundings of House Agitated Vapour


"
"

foreshadows the
"
-
"

agitated mirrors the unrest of Roderick , and violence


to come
creates sense of expectation for
"
"

Vapour no sense of mystery


-

readers that are anxious to know Roderick's fate


"
Tortured , rising Tempest
n

emotional
agony for Rodarte Roderick
also
physically
" e
-
"
tortured pain , .
is

hurting himself Madeline 's sickness he has become emaciated !


" '
= since

Tempest highlights the


increasing madness in Roderick as he becomes
" "
-
s

more and more about Madeline to haunt him


" "
paranoia coming .

Blood red moon


"
blood violence and death , even nature is affected the bloodshed
by
"
t
-

-
"
moon "
e
nighttime ,
end of the day a
final end to the Usher family .
Welcoming of Roderick Bounden slave "
"

Enslaved by 2 folds =

his love and


Superficially a bounden by responsibility to take cane
-

of Madeline
Underlying imprisonment he is held
captive by his paranoia and fear
-

which causes him to slowly


go insane
"
Constrained effort of the emruye man "
constrained → his
psyche is dreary and lifeless tiring to even
warmly
-

welcome someone
-

the real Roderick is slowly disappearing along with Madeline , leaving


" "
husk
only an
eunwye

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