House Taken Over': A Literary Analysis

Written by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven” is a famous short poem known for the dark fantasy that it portrays. From the mindset of a first person narrative, one may experience the tale through the eyes of a haunted man who is in mourning for the death of his beloved Lenore. As this man sits in his chamber, within a dark and dreary December night, a “raven of the saintly days of yore” visits him. The raven is no ordinary bird, for it is like a ghost, silent, yet it answers every inquiry the man presents in it’s own personal way. This dark and tragic tale grabs one’s attention through the rhythmic, yet melancholy verses, through the classic references, and through the dark imagery that all play a critical role within this poem.

On average 40,093,000 people in the United States move annually. In the book The House on Mango Street the main character Esperanza and her family are included in this number. They Come very poor roots, and they don 't have much money. They move often, one day dreaming to live in a real house, one they don 't have to share, one with their own yard, with stairs that are not hallway stairs, etc. They finally move into this beaten up house on Mango street, Her family is in love with it and act like it 's their dream, however it does not meet Esperanza`s standards. Despite her dislike for this house

But there are two in general that always make me laugh and giggle when I remember them even if in that time it wasn’t all laughs. My first memory is when I was 9 it was any other fall day the crisp leafs where floating down from the trees the sun rays hit my face like a warm kiss by the sun. My family was out like any other Halloween week and putting up the frightening decorations. When all of a sudden I felt something the size of a rock hit my head, I thought it was my sister playing tricks on me but I look around and she was inside. Then my older cousin came out side and said “I know who throw that at you”, I confused and furious asked him “who was it”. All he told me was that he saw this kid running around and he went up one of the tallest trees in my neighborhood. Me furious ran to the tree started to claim it and at first I looked up and said hey there’s nothing here but I didn’t give up I keep going to the top. When I got close to the top I saw a medium sides who me curious stuck my head in there and all I could see was this puffy tail. I scratched my head and grabbed it; little did I know that it was a huge mistake. Out of nowhere this squirrel jumped on my face and attacked me I fell down the tree and landed on my arm breaking some of my bones. I learned that day that sticking your head into a hole in a tree is

Both Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” and Julio Cortazar’s “House Taken Over” have similar settings because both take place in a spooky large houses. However, in Poe’s story, “The Fall of the House of Usher,”the setting is different because it was dark,gloomy and old house in the middle of nowhere. By contrast, Cortazar’s “House Taken Over,”the house is a little more modern and bright, well taken care of and the environment is greener.Gothic Literature is literature that has bleak or remote setting, a gloomy or melancholy mood. Also, characters or sometime tormented in a physical or psychological way. Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the house of Usher” is a good example of gothic literature because the setting of the story is very bleak and dark,and the characters in them are tormented physically and psychologically . for example, in the story, it states ,”With the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit (13).” This sentence proves my claim because the quote is saying that the character’s spirit feels tormented when he starts to walk into the house. Therefore, “The Fall of the house of Usher” is gothic literature because it shows it shows characters in the story being tormented.

In A Home Is Not a House, Reyner Banham starts by arguing that the main function of the typic American house is to cover its mechanical structure. In fact, he states that the use of mechanical services in architectural practice varies constantly because mechanical services are considered to be new in the profession, as well as, a cultural threat to the architect’s position in the world. To show his argument, Banham states that American houses are basically large single spaces divided by partitions inside that give a relative importance to the use of internal mechanical services, causing a threat to the need of architectural design. Similarly, American cultural characteristics, like cleanliness and hygiene, also foster the use and need of mechanical

First of all, throughout most of “The Raven” and “The Black Cat,” the narrators experience hallucinations. In “The Raven,” the narrator is grieving over the loss of his love, Lenore. While in his bedroom, he hears knocking at his door, but when he opens it, no one is there. “And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, ‘Lenore?’. This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, ‘Lenore!’”(The Raven). In this scene, we know that the narrator is having auditory hallucinations because no one is actually there. Additionally, when a raven flies into his room during a storm, he jokingly speaks to the raven: “‘Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore-- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!’”(The Raven). In response, the raven says, “Nevermore”. Obviously, since ravens can not speak, the narrator is only hallucinating the raven answering his question. The narrator in “The Black Cat” also experiences frequent hallucinations. When the narrator starts to despise the second cat, he sees the splotch of white fur on the cat’s chest transforming into an image of the gallows: “... the mark of white hair… it had, at length, assumed a rigorous distinctness of outline… it was now, I say, the image of a hideous-- of a ghastly thing-- of the GALLOWS!”(The Black Cat). The narrator hallucinates this because his mental illness has amplified the guilt of murdering Pluto, his first cat. From the large amount of hallucinations that both of the narrators experience, it is clear that they are suffering from a mental illness.

He is so upset by the loss of Lenore that it leads him to the edge of insanity. The speaker then is seen throughout the poem supposedly struggling with the raven because the raven responds with “Nevermore” which gets the speaker angry as he is struggling within himself. The speaker seems to be trying to achieve "surcease of sorrow for the lost Lenore" by burying himself in books and trying to forget about her. But the Raven seems to be a messenger from the spirit world who has been sent to the speaker’s chamber door to keep reminding him of his loss. Instead of trying to forget about Lenore, he is forced to think about her more emotionally than he had been thinking before.

An individual who experiences isolation and confusion can become consumed by fear of all that surrounds them. Edgar Allan Poe induces fear in the character featured in ‘The Raven’ which heightens the moods and adds intensity. The fear which is shown connects to the madness of the character who is having hallucinations of his dead wife, Lenore. “Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating…” Poe juxtaposes “fantastic terrors” to emphasise the fear of the unknown sound that is claimed to be heard. The phrase which follows, “never felt before” is used to explain to the audience that the character portrayed has never felt such emotions in his life. Though these emotions have been

I remember it was a chilly October night, everyone running around in their costumes, and I myself, in a pink princess dress. My mom had spent all night doing my hair in perfect curls and I just couldn't wait to get my plastic clear heels on from Walmart that almost every 8-year old had. I knew that this Halloween would be the BEST.. Little did I know, it would, in fact, be

In “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, the speaker’s attitude towards the raven drastically changes. The speaker becomes angry towards the raven because he believes the raven said he will not be able to hold Lenore in heaven.

One of the key factors in creating the tone in this story is the setting. Oates choice of setting creates two distinct ideas helping to shape the tone. The first setting is the city, which can be characterized as a protective figure. The city offers Connie anonymity from her parents and from the other people. It allows her to be free and wild with no care as to the consequences. She is judgment-free in the city and allowed to fully express herself. Connie's house, on the other hand, is a "protective" cage, hidden away from prying eyes. The woods are often associated with confusion and mystery, which Connie often feels at home. The house is a gilded cage, it offers Connie "protection" from the outside; however, it is easily breached and allows

In the poem “The Raven” the man who is speaking to the raven transforms, he goes from calm and patient to annoyed and irritated. The raven however, did not change throughout the poem. The raven stayed the same throughout the poem only speaking one word whenever the man would ask a question.

At the beginning of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” and “The Black Cat” the narrators begin to explain their side of the story calmly, maintaining their composure and sanity. Yet, as both stories progress Poe’s main characters quickly unravel and spiral into frantic, unstable beings. Initially, the man depicted within “The Raven” believes a visitor is knocking on his door, a rational and typical thought upon hearing a knock. The main character’s mental health begins to slip when he yells and believes to hear in the empty doorway, his dead wife, “I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, ‘Lenore!’ ”, (Poe 1). All remnants of the narrator 's sanity

As the raven enters the room, its presence reveals emotional suffering and loneliness. For example, the intrusion of the raven suddenly makes, “the air [grow] denser” (129). By making the air grow denser, the raven has an emotional affect on the mind, body, and spirit of

One thought is the raven represents the soul of Lenore coming back to haunt him. The raven is not of this world, perhaps a demon or spiritual creature, a messenger from the dead. The speaker asks the raven to bring Lenore back, “Tell this sould with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,/ It shall class a saited maiden whom the angels name Lenore” (93-94). There is also a sense the speaker is ridden by guilt for something. Perhaps he wronged Lenore and her soul comes back to torment him for it. Maybe he even killed her and Lenore is punishing him with his own immortality. She wants him to know the pain of being lonely and insane forever in her retribution. The bird watches him suffer, but does nothing but speak in order to increase the suffering. The raven inserts himself into the story, only so far, just enough to move the story along, to essentially manipulate it. The horror keeps the speaker from leaving his study. The repetitive knocking goes one and on like a sign of endless guilt, so much so, it makes him incoherent. Lenore wants him to suffer endlessly and she