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The Fall Of The House Of Usher By Edgar Allan Poe

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The romantic era rooted in Germany and left an impact on American literature.With the birth of the romantic era, many poets such as Poe emerged publishing gruesome works not commonly seen before. Rather than focusing on faith and politics, the importance is on the individual. As shown in this short story, Poe focuses on the psyche of the individual and the atmosphere presented. In The Fall of the House of Usher, reflects the ethos of romanticism through the use of gothic literature emphasizing the gloom of Roderick Usher’s sad soul to the point of being driven to insanity, straying from the rational, and the setting of the story itself.
As shown with the introduction of Roderick, “of a mental disorder which oppressed him—and of an earnest
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