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La Vie Posted 19 years ago
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00 Can someone explain what this means? 02 br
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00 "explain how Poe 01 u 00 undermines rationality 02 u 00 in " The Fall of the House of Usher." 02 br
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0 Hello La Vie 02 br
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00 The question-setter wants you to demonstrate how Poe stops the reader thinking "what a lot of nonsense this is!" – i.e. the techniques Poe uses to make an irrational story seem plausible. 02 br
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00 The question-setter wants you to demonstrate how Poe stops the reader thinking "what a lot of nonsense this is!" – i.e. the techniques Poe uses to make an irrational story seem plausible. 02 br
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0 Rationality (coming from Enlightenment thinking) was dominant in society, much literature and other media in the time of Poe. Rationality suggests a world or society based on consistency and logic, good sense and sound judgement. The irrational (inconsistency of reason) world of Usher in Poe's story is far removed from the rational world that most of Poe's readers would have been used to. Most
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