The Fall of the House of Usher
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"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a classic Gothic short story that explores themes of madness, decay, and the supernatural through the eerie decline of an aristocratic family and its crumbling mansion.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Gothic fiction work
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horror fiction work → short story → |
| author |
Edgar Allan Poe
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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| firstPublicationDate |
1839
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| firstPublishedIn |
Burton's Gentleman's Magazine
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| genre |
Gothic fiction
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horror → psychological fiction → |
| hasAdaptation |
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928 film)
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The Fall of the House of Usher (1960 film) → The Fall of the House of Usher (opera) → |
| hasCharacter |
Madeline Usher
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Roderick Usher → unnamed narrator → |
| influenced |
Gothic horror literature
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| language |
English
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| literaryForm |
prose
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| literaryMovement |
Romanticism
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| mainCharacter |
Madeline Usher
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Roderick Usher → |
| motif |
crumbling house
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incest implication → living burial → mirror imagery between house and family → |
| narrativePerspective |
first-person
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| narrator |
unnamed first-person narrator
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| partOf |
Edgar Allan Poe's tales of the grotesque and arabesque tradition
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| setting |
decaying mansion
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isolated countryside → |
| structure |
frame narrative elements
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| symbol |
cracks in the mansion
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the house of Usher → the tarn (dark lake) → |
| symbolizes |
decline of an aristocratic family
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psychological disintegration → |
| theme |
death
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decay → entombment → family degeneration → fear → isolation → madness → the supernatural → |
| tone |
eerie
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melancholic → oppressive atmosphere → |
Referenced by (5)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe → Gothic literature → |
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American Renaissance
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associatedWork |
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The Fall of the House of Usher
("the house of Usher")
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