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Essay On The Fall Of The House Of Usher: Transformation

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Transformation I enjoy books about things that change for the better and have happy endings, but some people enjoy stories that are meant to scare them. A scary story can be just as enjoyable as a happy one. There are certain elements that make a story scary, and one of them is transformation. Transformation has huge impact on the mood of a story. When houses transform, it creates an unsettling mood. In “Where is Here” the house changes back into what the stranger remembered. When the house transforms to match the stranger, it throws off the mother, and the reader. In “House Taken Over” parts of the house become uninhabitable when “they” take it over. Slowly, less and less of the house is left for the siblings in the story to live in, until they are kicked out onto the street. As the house transforms, an eerie feeling fills the atmosphere of the story. The house in “The Fall of the House of Usher” transforms a few times throughout the story. As the story progresses, the house goes from being dismal to creepy, to unsettling. When houses transform it can have a large impact on the mood of the story, but if a human transforms it can have an even greater impact. …show more content…

Dr. Victor Frankenstein in “Frankenstein” transforms throughout the story. He starts out as a family oriented person, but when he went to college he became obsessed with creating life from an inanimate object. As the story progresses Victor transforms more, and the story becomes more fearful and unsettling. In “The Fall of the House of Usher” Madeline, Usher, and the narrator transform. Usher becomes more crazy and sick; Madeline dies and turns into a zombie; and the narrator goes insane. The change in the people creates a frightening and scary mood. In addition to houses and people, transforming environments can be very influential to the mood of a scary

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