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Characters
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Music
This story has a lot of suspense moments so we need music with suspense, when nothing is happening we are going to need melancholic music, and we need climax music when the climax comes and maybe sad music for the ending.
Genre
Gothic stories is a fiction - type of genre which uses dark and picturesques scenery and an overall atmosphere of exorcism, mystery, fear and death.
Edgar Alan Poe
He was born in Boston in 1809 and was orphaned at the age of 3. He was raised then by an aristocrat.
From a young age, he had the desire to be a writer, and although his father did not support him, his mother always had great faith in him.
Edgar Allan Poe explored themes such as death and mortality; madness or insanity; love and loss; justice and morality; and human psychology.
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Usher brothers are the only ones that are left from their dynasty, they are the owners of a big house, a mansion that even though it seems old is very stable
Usher suffers from a mental illness but the invited his closest friend some days, he passes some days there and at some point, her sister Madeline dies
everything is strange and Usher hurries to warn him so they go out, and a sudden fog and light appear
the friend tries to hide Usher from it so he starts reading a book, but he realizes that the words that he is reading are coming to life as sounds, that’s when Usher asks him if he hears it? and at that point he realizes that he had been hearing it for a while for some days
he realizes that he had been hearing it for a while for some days, and that it was really Madeline that was still alive and was fighting for her life, she then gets out and rushes to her brother and throws him to the floor, that’s when he dies and the “House of Usher” crumbles and falls down.
Scenography
We're gonna use some chairs, materials to make it look like a house, and a coffin for madeline.
The novel must include the four important points that are: beginning, development, climax, and the outcome/conclusion.
The main themes of the story are: Family, isolation, craziness and obviously the death, love, solitariness, supernatural.
Lightning: We will start the story in the darkness (it would be great if we had dark blankets to block the lights from the classroom) , we will need light to represent an afternoon since Madeline dies in the afternoon, at the end we will need darkness again but with a sudden light
The gothic elements in the story are: the characteristic haunted houses, strange illnesses, divided personality, depressing landscapes, etc.
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