Post by Robin Lam on Dec 8, 2008 23:11:37 GMT -8
"The Fall of the House of Usher" DCQ
“And thus, as a closer and still intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into the recesses of his spirit, the more bitterly did I perceive the futility of all attempt at cheering a mind from which darkness, as if an inherent positive quality, poured forth upon all objects of the moral and physical universe, in one unceasing radiation of gloom.”
The madness of Roderick Usher causes his mind to fall into darkness because of how his life is made unbearable after the loss of his sister and his creeping in madness.
Life is made unbearable due to the mental state of an individual. Defend, challenge, or qualify this assertion utilizing analysis from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” history, and/or current events.
“And thus, as a closer and still intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into the recesses of his spirit, the more bitterly did I perceive the futility of all attempt at cheering a mind from which darkness, as if an inherent positive quality, poured forth upon all objects of the moral and physical universe, in one unceasing radiation of gloom.”
The madness of Roderick Usher causes his mind to fall into darkness because of how his life is made unbearable after the loss of his sister and his creeping in madness.
Life is made unbearable due to the mental state of an individual. Defend, challenge, or qualify this assertion utilizing analysis from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” history, and/or current events.