Usher II story
A librarian vows revenge and builds a murderous replica of Poe's House of Usher. Directed by: Lee Tamahori. Story by: Ray Bradbury.
8 total · 3 choice · 3 major · 2 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| anti-intellectualism in society | choice | The story takes place in the year 2125. Society had enacted a prohibition on creative works that stimulated the imagination, including the writings of Edgar Allen Poe. |
| literature appreciation | choice | Stendahl was very fond of the writings of Edgar Allen Poe. He went so far as to build a replica of Poe's House of Usher, and forcibly cast government investigators as some of the stories victims. |
| the desire for vengeance | choice | Stendahl exacted revenge on a handful of investigators from the government agency that was responsible for burning his extensive library, by taking their lives in manners inspired by the macabre writings of Edgar Allen Poe. |
| android clone of a person | major | Stendahl made android replicas of Garrett and some of the other government investigators. |
| law enforcement | major | Investigators from the "Moral Climates" government agency determined that Stendahl's subversive mansion was to be dismantled and burned to the ground. |
| murder | major | In an act of revenge, Stendahl took the lives of various government investigators in manners inspired by the macabre writings of Edgar Allen Poe. |
| creative writing | minor | In the introduction, Ray Bradbury shared with the viewer the wellsprings of creativity that inspire his writing. |
| the nature of creativity | minor | In his introduction, Ray Bradbury gave his viewers an intimate window into his writing room, and some of the self-professed sources of creativity that lay about within it. |