sickness of the heart. physical or mental? both?

reference to how drugs made Poe feel like he was escaping his worldly problems, just for the drugs to wear off and him to come down into his sad reality

reference to Poe's drug use maybe.

makes me think of paranormal, not extraterestrial.

I was wrong about the soul of the house. I guess there is something there, that something is just depression. Maybe I took vacant too literally and it just stands for the people in the house being emotionally checked out.

the eyes are the windows to the soul. and if the windows are vacant, that would imply that there is nothing in the soul of the house of Usher.

the narrator wasn't even able to find the slightest bit of unconventional beauty or a deeper sentiment behind the desolate house. it was just straight up terrible.

the very house causes a feeling of unease as the narrator approaches it.

I wonder who is in this photo? The narrator, perhaps?

theme of dull dark dreary melancholy, soundless, alone (all isolating terms)

all of the characteristics of night, but during the day. Almost as if it's always night for him because day resembles night and night is night.

the season of change. the death of warm lively summer and birth of cold dead winter.

I knew that interracial marriages were not legal and still looked down upon to the point of receiving backlash at the time that my parents got married (1990's), but knowing now that marriages between two slaves to eachother was not recognized in colonial law takes away the slaves humanity. Especially after introducing these African Americans to Christianity and saying that sex before marriage is a sin, then not allowing any other way from them to have children is cold hearted. I couldn't imagine somebody introducing me to a religion where they told me I would be punished for something, and then giving me no choice but to do that something. In another regard to adultery being so frowned upon, It is despicable to me that slave Masters were allowed to rape their women slaves without any repercussions, however allowing two slaves to officialize their love with the law like any other human would just be preposterous. I do not understand how people could be so cruel to other people.

The people in charge of these ships went OUT OF THEIR WAY to neglect the captives on the ship, how is it that they allowed people (who they obviously needed the help of so much so that they would steal them from their home and force them to work) to live and lay in pools of excrement. Barnyard animals are treated better than this.