Ashley Fuller
Tiffany Showerman
KC Cataldi
Jonathan Hardesty
Byron Keck

 Summary
 Themes
 Connection between books
 Significance
 Conclusion

 Players:
 Investigators of moral climate
 Dismantlers
 Political friends
 House of Usher
 murder

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Censorship
Death
 Literal
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 Metaphorical
▪ Death is like the censorship of ideas
Idea of murdering fantasy
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 censorship
Fantasy and dark humor
 Quoting Poe and the Grimm brothers

“THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF
USHER”
 Characterization of the house
“THE CASK OF
AMONTILLADO”
 Stendahl takes Garrett down into the cellar
 It disappears at the end  “Ignorance is fatal”
 Locks him in an alcove

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Technology and creativity is used to kill science
Investigator of moral climates control literature
 “All the beautiful literary lies and flights of fancy must be shot in mid-air.”
Politics
 “…with a screw tightened here and bolt fastened there, a push a pull a yank, art and literature were like a great twine of taffy strung about.”

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Communism
 censorship
Poe’s “House of Usher”
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 “The House of Usher is open for business.”
Society for the prevention of fantasy
Science is taking over literature
 “What eminent sociologist! What clever psychologists! What tremendously important politicians, bacteriologists, and neurologists!”

 Dismantlers
 Irony of the story against technology and science
 “My lord, you have an imagination, haven’t you?”

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Murder of fantasy
 censorship
Science taking over literature
Literature destroys science
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 creativity
“The Fall of the House of Usher”
“The Cask of Amontillado”