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-This book contains a historical context, which helps us understand this literary work. We must pay special attention to those events that especially influenced the world of culture and art and also to those events that were especially reflected in literature, in the life of its writer or that affected it. There are many examples in which historical events have shaped the content and forms of literature, as well as this has often been the best testimony to the importance of certain events throughout history. This context is formed by everything that, in some way, influences the event when it happens. A fact is always tied to its time: that is, to its period. 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,