Giving hope for survival - motivating the men to continue Men cling to even the slightest evidences of their survival There faith in themselves allowed them to take the difficult decision to swim to shore
Numerous short sentence and questions - increase pace of the story, anxiousness Men arguing amongst themselves regarding what is happening on shore and on how they will be saved Their constant suffering heightens desperation to survive Yet hopeful - words of the cook Trying to find meaning in actions
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Parallelism between the two stories Gruesome images + short sentences Frantic revelation of the truth Tragic end of the Usher line and house
strange and mysterious characters the narrator reads to Usher and the sounds in the book are mimicked by the mansion as they are read aloud by the narrator. uncanny happenings in the house, the most inexplicable is the obliteration of the house following the death of the Usher siblings rendering the house with an eerie personality and appearance
Roderick Usher contacted him and considered him his “only personal friend is involved in the burial of Madeline’s coffin and all the eerie events that follow
Setting of the place - dark, gloomy ever-present conflict with logic Inability of usher to accept that he had entombed his sister alive
Effective descriptions of decay and disease present at the place Setting Shifting from good to bad Horror is instinctual and fear is the strongest feeling one experiences
Story mimicking actions Madelines escape Fall of the usher line Speed of events - climax |
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