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Mind Map by Vincent Zhou, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Vincent Zhou
about 3 years ago
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The Fall of The House of Usher
- Notes
- The speaker talks about the
melancholy House of Usher
- The speaker further describes the
House of Usher that make the setting
have a chilling sad atmosphere
- The speaker further describes the
House of Usher that make the setting
have a chilling sad atmosphere
- The speaker decides
to stay in the gloomy
mansion
- Roderick Usher is a
owner of this mansion
- Usher had sent a letter to the
speaker and asked him to come
see him because he was ill
- The speaker complied with the letter
- The Usher family had little
variation and had one line of
descent
- This leads the speaker to
believe that this is the
reason behind his illness
- The speaker says that
he starts learning
parts of Roderick's mental
state at intervals
- Inside the mansion
the speaker finds it
creepy
- Roderick's senses are
heightened and seems
scared of his own
home
- Roderick's sister is sick
from an unknown disease
and has lost control of a
limb
- Roderick's sister Madeline
dies from the sickness and he
keeps her body so the
doctors wouldn't experiment
with her
- One night the Roderick
goes to stay with the
speaker
- They see some mist that Roderick
explains isn't very uncommon
- Roderick and the speaker hears
strange noises and Roderick believe
them to be Madeline coming out of her
grave
- Roderick is killed and the
speaker flees
- Roderick is killed and the
speaker flees
- Roderick and the speaker hears
strange noises and Roderick believe
them to be Madeline coming out of her
grave
- They see some mist that Roderick
explains isn't very uncommon
- One night the Roderick
goes to stay with the
speaker
- Roderick's sister Madeline
dies from the sickness and he
keeps her body so the
doctors wouldn't experiment
with her
- Roderick's sister is sick
from an unknown disease
and has lost control of a
limb
- Roderick's senses are
heightened and seems
scared of his own
home
- Inside the mansion
the speaker finds it
creepy
- The Usher Family has
also never been a family
that has fluorished
- This leads the speaker to
believe that this is the
reason behind his illness
- The Usher family had little
variation and had one line of
descent
- The speaker complied with the letter
- Usher had sent a letter to the
speaker and asked him to come
see him because he was ill
- Roderick Usher is a
owner of this mansion
- The speaker talks about the
melancholy House of Usher
- Vocab
- Desolate
- deserted of people and in a state of
bleak and dismal emptiness.
- deserted of people and in a state of
bleak and dismal emptiness.
- Bleak
- charmless and inhospitable; dreary
- Sojourn
- A temporary stay
- Proprietor
- the owner of a business, or a
holder of property
- Dilapidation
- The state or process of falling into
decay or being in disrepair.
- Phantasmagoric
- A form of horror theater
- Palpable
- So intense as to seem
almost tangible
- So intense as to seem
almost tangible
- A form of horror theater
- The state or process of falling into
decay or being in disrepair.
- the owner of a business, or a
holder of property
- A temporary stay
- charmless and inhospitable; dreary
- Desolate
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