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Provide a 6 pages analysis while answering the following question: Edgar Allen Poe and the Fall of Mankind. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstrac
Provide a 6 pages analysis while answering the following question: Edgar Allen Poe and the Fall of Mankind. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. As Mowery explains, binary oppositions are things such as hot and cold, male and female, dark and light. “It is in the subtle shifts in our expectations of the character that tension and conflict are developed” (Mowery, 1997). .
In discussing the relationship between the brother and sister in “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Poe presents a very Freudian perspective on the way they relate to each other. “Roderick is the ego or consciousness which attempts to bury the primitive impulses of the id, Madeline. The narrator in this reading functions as the superego, an awareness of standards and conventions that mediates between the twins” (Heim, 1994). Roderick is presented first as a poet and artist, living in this house of woe while Madeline appears as a ghostly, wraithlike figure. He is the positive side of the opposition because he is the logical male and is the representative of nobility and continuation of the family line. This is made clearer as the twins appear in their first scene together. “’Her decease,’ he said, with a bitterness which I can never forget, ‘would leave him (him the hopeless and the frail) the last of the ancient race of the Ushers.’ While he spoke, the lady Madeline (for so she was called) passed slowly through a remote portion of the apartment, and, without having noticed my presence, disappeared” (Poe, 1997). In a world that makes sense, she should remain mostly a part of the background scenery, but Poe does not allow this to happen as he upends the world by placing female power over that of the male. .
