Poe

This week we talked about a new author named Poe. We also read some of his short stories which to me seemed a bit peculiar. In our discussion about "Fall of the House of Usher" we discussed different topics about the short story. One of the topics discussed was about our thoughts in the fact that Roderick buried his sister alive and whether he knew she was alive or not. To me, the reason why he buried her was because he feared her greatly and he didn't want her illness to get worse and affect him. Evidence of this is shown in the beginning of the story when the narrator sees Madeline, Roderick's sister, and at the sight of her, Roderick hides his face under the blanket in terror. Roderick also explains that his only fear is fear itself and that he is terrified of dying in fear, which would directly show his reasons for burying his sister as soon as possible. Another explanation for this peculier act would have been that the whole incident was all a trap that roderick and madeline were playing of the narrator. This is shown in the way in which roderick burys his sister inside the house instead of outside and burying her while she is still alive

Romantacism

We have now started leaning about Romanticism which deals with thoughts regarding the individual, imagination and nature. I feel that I am not necessarily a romantic, but my thoughts have some connection to this belief. I don't completely agree with their views of seeing nature as the answer to all questions. I feel that we do need facts from studies to be able to understand the meaning of life. But i also feel that we as humans are directly connected to nature, since that is what we started with and that is what our world grew from. I believe that we can find answer to a lot of our questions through nature, but we cannot base everything from that. I would definitely prefer living in the romantic era than during the Puritan times since there was much freedom of the individual and imagination. I think our generation would have fit in better with the romantics other than with the Puritans, but we would also have different views since we are huge on technology.