Hello 1LLCE 22-23

 

  Mike Flanagan’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ adapted from collider.com     Unsurprisingly, Poe's works have been adapted for the screen over 200 times; the visual potentials of Poe's obsession with Old-World evil and the romantic, decadent decay have always tempted filmmakers. The Fall of the House of Usher has been adapted into feature-length movies (two silent films, a relatively faithful Roger Corman 1960 version, and a modern 2006 update) and numerous plays, operas, shorts, and series episodes. However, filmmakers often struggled to expand the sources, usually short stories, into feature-length films, and the results often deviated in everything except the atmosphere. The best-known of these–eight low-budget Roger Corman movies made between 1960-1964 and usually starring the debonair, diabolical Vincent Price –are entertaining but can't recreate Poe's macabre, paranoid, and generally unwholesome sensibility. And even today, capturing the intensity ...

 the incipit (together) the house  the narrator Roderick Usher the gothic elements the poem Poe's definition of the short story

  DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me—upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain—upon the bleak walls—upon the vacant eye-like windows—upon a few rank sedges—and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees—with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-...

 

  Brave New World : Questions   A)     Main facts ®   (Wh- questions : who, what happens, where, why...? + who is the narrator?)   ® Let’s focus on the   characters:   -       What do you know about the director? Why?   -       What can you guess about the students? Justify?     B)     The references:   -       Who does “Bokanovski” refer to? How many babies can a single egg give?   -         When does the scene take place? Explain…     C)    What sort of text is it? Why?     D)    Focus on the details:   a)     Pick out expressions showing the students are ridiculous.   b)     Give equivalents: -         “scribbled” (l....