Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher (Annotated) Edgar Allan Poe

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment. The narrator describes the house as something terrible, that the owners had neglected it completely, the trees were withered, the walls were gray, the smell of leaden-colored fish came out of the pond, the tapestries of the walls were dark, the general furnishing It was profuse, uncomfortable, old and ramshackle. The narrator explains that he felt an atmosphere of pain. An air of hard, deep and irremediable sadness. All these factors greatly influenced Roderick Usher's life, since when the narrator first saw him after many years he noticed that the spectral paleness of his skin, the miraculous glow of his eyes, his hair had grown carelessly, even making an effort, relate its tangled appearance to any idea of simple humanity. Because of the mental and physical illness that Roderick Usher suffered, he spoke inconsistencies, believed that plants and inert beings could feel things.