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Fall of the House of Usher 5

The setting = dark, a maze (labyrinth), studio (-> Piranesi, Imaginary Prisons "Gothic Hallway") Close to Romantics (T. De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater ("reveller under opium"). 

Roderick Usher = "half pity / half awe", cf Aristotle, definition of tragedy. the narrator describes him as a tragic hero. Inescapable fate.

On a évoqué les traductions de Baudelaire.

Homework: lire la nouvelle pour le 19 décembre. Ne pas hésiter à lire en parallèle la traduction de Baudelaire.

 Oral Presentation

Pour avoir une conclusion satisfaisante, et s'il on veut commencer notre travail par la rédiger, il faut / faudrait une problématique. La problématique de base, c'est "en quoi ce(s) document(s) parle(nt) du thème étudié (Rencontres / imaginaires). On peut aussi partir d'une idée qu'on a, et la tranformer en problématique.

Pour la conclusion, il nous faut:
1st sentence, point summary, answer, (opening) 

"to what extent is IT a fairy tale?"

To put it in a nutshell, IT is the epitome of a current trend of works set in a nostalgic vision of the 1980s. This poster appears as a case in point of innocence vs experience, overshadowed by ghastly fixtures of horror tropes. Stephen King designed a framework to explore the coming of age of his characters, which is highly reminiscent of fairy tales.

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