Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher (Annotated) Edgar Allan Poe

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-This book contains a historical context, where past events or the study and narration of these events are examined. The historical context refers to the circumstances and incidents surrounding an event. This context is formed by everything that, in some way, influences the event when it happens. A fact is always tied to its time: that is, to its characteristics. Therefore, when analyzing events that took place tens, hundreds or thousands of years ago, it is essential to know the historical context to understand them. Otherwise, we would be analyzing and judging what happened in a totally different era with a current perspective. The narrator describes the house as something terrible, that the owners had neglected it completely, the trees were withered, the walls were gray, the smell of leaden-colored fish came out of the pond, the tapestries of the walls were dark, the general furnishing It was profuse, uncomfortable, old and ramshackle. The narrator explains that he felt an atmosphere of pain. An air of hard, deep and irremediable sadness. All these factors greatly influenced Roderick Usher's life, since when the narrator first saw him after many years he noticed that the spectral paleness of his skin, the miraculous glow of his eyes, his hair had grown carelessly, even making an effort, relate its tangled appearance to any idea of simple humanity.