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The Fall of the House of

Usher

Edgar Allan Poe


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The Fall of the House of Usher

Primeira publicao no Burton'sGentleman's Magazine em Setembro de1839

Revisado para ser incluso na coleo Talesof the Grotesque and Arabesque em 1845

Contm o poema "The Haunted Palace",

publicado anteriormente em abril de 1839na revista Baltimore Museum


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A histria tem incio quando narradorsem nome chega casa de seu amigoRoderick Usher, que estava doente

Doena inclui: hiperestesia(sensibilidade luz, sons, cheiros esabores), hipodondria, muita ansiedade

A irm de Usher, Madeline, tambm

sofre de catalepsia O narrador fica impressionado com as

pinturas de Usher, e tenta anim-lolendo para ele e ouvindo suas msicas

tocadas ao violo Usher canta "The Haunted Palace", efala que acredita que a casa sensitiva


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Aps, Usher informa o narrador que sua irmmorrera

Ela sepultada por 2 semanas numa adega

antes de ser transportada para o cemtrio Usher e o narrador ficam muito agitados semnenhuma razo aparente

Com a tempestade, Usher dirige-se ao quartodo narrador (que fica acima da adega),

abrindo sua janela Percebe que pntano ao redor da casa parece

brilhar no escuro, iluminando as pinturas deUsher


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O narrador tenta acalmar Usher lendo The MadTrist, histria que envolve um cavaleirochamado Ethelred que se abriga na casa deum ermito a fim de escapar da tempestade,encontrando um palcio de ouro guardadopelo drago.

Encontra tambm pendurado na parede umaarmadura metal brilhante, escrito: o que mataro drago ganhar a armadura.

Com um golpe de sua clava, ele vence odrago, tenta pegar a armadura, que cai nocho com um barulho ensurdecedor


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Enquanto o narrador l a histria, estalos de barulhosso ouvidos pela casa

Quando ele fala do barulho de When the dragon is described as shrieking as it dies, a

shriek is heard, again within the house. As he relatesthe shield falling from off the wall, a reverberation,metallic and hollow, can be heard. Usher, hysterical,exclaims that these sounds are being made by hissister, who was in fact alive when she was entombed.The bedroom door is then blown open to reveal

Madeline standing there. She falls violently in deathupon her brother, who also dies. The narrator then fleesthe house, and, as he does so, notices a flash of lightcausing him to look back upon the House of Usher, intime to watch it break in two, the fragments sinking intothe tarn.
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Poe always conveys one human characteristic in each of hisshort stories as one of his major themes. The theme that Poeconveys through this story is that offear.

The doppelgnger theme, prominent in such works of Poe as "William Wilson", appears as well in "The Fall of the House ofUsher". The reflection of the house in the tarn is described inthe opening paragraph, and "a striking similitude between thebrother and sister" is mentioned when Madeline "dies".

The death and resurrection of a woman, a main theme in "Ligeia" and "Morella", is also present here.

The theme ofmental illness is explored in this work, as it is in

numerous other tales such as "Berenice". Interment while alive is also explored in "The Premature Burial" and "The Cask of Amontillado".

There are also various Gothic elements, such as the decrepitcastle and tarn, whose signs of decay reflect the mentalcondition of Usher, which is rapidly deteriorating.
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Literary significance & criticism

L. Sprague de Camp, in his Lovecraft: ABiography[p.246f], wrote that "[a]ccording to

the late [Poe expert]Thomas O. Mabbott, [H.P.] Lovecraft, in 'Supernatural Horror,' solved aproblem in the interpretation of Poe" byarguing that "Roderick Usher, his sisterMadeline, and the house all shared one

common soul". Other writers have claimed that themes of

incest and vampirism are suggested in thework.
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Film, TV or theatrical adaptations In the low-budget Roger Corman film from 1960, known

in the United States as House of Usher, the narrator fallsin love with the sickly Madeline, much to Roderick's

horror. As Roderick reveals, the Usher family has ahistory of evil and cruelty so great that he and Madelinepledged in their youth never to have children and toallow their family to die with them. When Madeline fallsinto a deathlike slumber, her brother rushes to have herplaced in the family crypt. When she wakes up,Madeline goes insane from being buried alive andbreaks free through insanity-induced strength. Sheconfronts her brother only to fall dead at his feet.Suddenly the house begins to collapse and the narratorflees as Roderick is killed by the falling house. The filmwas Corman's first in a series of eight films inspired bythe works ofEdgar Allan Poe.
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List of films La Chute de la maison Usher(France, 1928) byJean Epstein The Fall of the House of Usher(US, 1928) byJames Sibley Watson and Melville

Webber The Fall of the House of Usher(UK, 1949) directed by Ivan Barnett

House of Usher(a.k.a. Fall of the House of Usherand The Mysterious House ofUsher) (1960) by Roger Corman with Vincent Price The Fall of the House of Usher(1966) (TV) '"Znik domu Usheru" (The Fall of the House of Usher) (1980) (animated version

byJan Svankmajer) "Histoires extraordinaires: La chute de la maison Usher" (1981) (TV) with

Mathieu Carrire The Fall of the House of Usher(1982) (TV) with Martin Landau and Ray Walston "El hundimiento de la Casa de Usher'" (1983) byJesus Franco with

Howard Vernon The House of Usher(1988) with Oliver Reed The House of Usher(2005)
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Music Peter Hammill composed and recorded an opera based on the story in 1991. In this work, the

house itself becomes a vocal part, to be sung by the same performer who sings the role ofRoderick Usher. The libretto by Chris Judge Smith incorporates material from other writings byPoe, and also adopts the subplot of a romantic attraction between Madeline Usher and thenarrator, who is given the name Montresor.

Another operatic version was composed by Philip Glass, with a libretto by Arthur Yorinks.

Claude Debussy wrote about 30 minutes ofThe Fall of the House of Usher, an unfinishedopera that was to be a companion piece to another short opera based on Poe's The Devil inthe Belfry.

Composer Nikita Koshkin wrote a piece for classical guitar entitled "Usher Waltz". The namepossibly refers to the "perversion... of the wild air of the last waltz of Von Weber" whichRoderick improvises on his guitar, but the relationship between Koshkin's piece and VonWeber's "Aufforderung zum Tanz" is unclear. "Usher Waltz" more clearly relates to Poe's workin its dark mood and its compositional structure.

The Alan Parsons Project included an instrumental with the same name on 1976'sTales of Mystery and Imagination, an album of songs based on works by Poe. The song is infive parts ("Prelude", "Arrival", "Intermezzo", "Pavane", and "Fall").

The Hormones, a punk band from western Pennsylvania, has a song "Usher" after the tale. The punk/post-hardcore band Finch released a song from their second full length CD, Say

Hello to Sunshine, called "The Casket of Roderick Usher". The UK band Lindisfarne recorded a song "Lady Eleanor" in the 1970s which contained the

lyric "And in walked Roderick Usher with the Lady Eleanor"
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