ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Gaye Taylor

Document Summary

Eng 1120 v literature and composition i: introduction to. The fall of the house of usher; edgar allan poe. However the details cause a certain vagueness. The narrator is a tool used by poe. He refuses to see what is actually going on. It is possible the narrator is flipping between romanticism and rationalism. He is familiar with the drop from being high** Normally he enjoys it when things are melancholy. Poe is showing us extreme situations/ but also extreme reactions. There is irony because the narrator claims usher is unstable but the narrator is in fact portrayed as unstable. House is sick refers to the family and the house. It could be that the family has a past that affects the stability of the house. Cue the *inbreeding in the usher family, is said to cause mental and physical ailments.