A Comparison of Poe and Roderick, The Fall of the House of Usher
Title: A Comparison of Poe and Roderick, The Fall of the House of Usher
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A Comparison of Poe and Roderick, The Fall of the House of Usher
Category: /Society & Culture/People
Details: Words: 902 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Reading "The Fall of the House of Usher", one may readily see the similarities of character between Roderick Usher, the main character in the story, and of Edgar Allan Poe, the author. To an anomalous species of terror I found him a bounden slave. 'I shall perish,' said he, 'I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus. . . shall I be lost. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial incident. . . this
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New York: Frederick Unger, 1978. 141-142. Howarth, William L., ed. The Twentieth Century Interpretations of Poe's Tales. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1971. Lawrence, David Herbert. Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsa House, 1985. Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Fall of the House of Usher." The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Ed. R.V. Cassill. New York: W. W. Norton, 1986. 700-715. Wilbur, Richard. "The House of Poe." Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Laruie Lanzen Harris. Michigan: Gale Research, 1981. 522-523.