Awakening The Imagination With Poe

The Fall of House of Usher is a novel written by Edgar Allan Poe. It starts with description by the narrator. The narrator is unnamed and there is no information about his background. He was childhood friends with Roderick Usher, The Fall of House of Usher is a sincere expression of horror. There are important parts the first part speaks about the element of horror in a novel. The second part explain how the writer is mocking the reader. The element of horror in a novel is the atmosphere the place. The narrator description the house. It is"Dark dull and soundless It color is black and shades drew on. The window like vacant eye. The narrator also mentions a small crack from roof to ground. The house ofUsher is very gloomy and mysterious.

Most times, anything abnormal or odd tend to be pushed under the rug. Edgar Allan Poe subtly brings attention to topics the are typically ignored. E. A. Poe had far from a perfect childhood. His father left when he was young and his mother died when he was three. Poe also seemed to have a lonely childhood after his parents were gone. He was separated from his relatives and didn’t appear to have many friends. He attended the army and after went into West Point. His academics there were well but he was eventually kicked out because of poor handlings of his duties. Before Poe died, he struggled with depression and a drinking problem. Some believe Poe’s tragic lifetime was the inspiration for some of his stories. Such as, “The Fall of the House of Usher”. A possible theory about this story is that Roderick and the Narrator were one in the same. This essay will discuss the possibility of them being the same through plot, characterization, and personification.

Edgar Allen Poe wrote a short story named “The Fall of the House of Usher” which had a very complicated message. In the house lived Roderick Usher and his sister Madeline. Roderick is suffering physiologically. When the narrator arrives to the house he describes the house in a dark and evil way. As he approaches the house he finds Madeline in a state of depression and sickness. Madeline later dies from a mysterious illness and Roderick and the narrator burry Madeline under the house because Roderick believed scientist would run experiments on her because of her disease. Madeline then comes back from the grave and comes at Roderick which causes him to die from shock. The narrator flees before the house collapses. In the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” written by Edgar Allen Poe, the author uses the theme of family, isolation and madness to show why the house collapsed.

Edgar Allen Poe is a critic of short stories and poetry, and often puts his own theories into his writing. Edgar Allen Poe’s, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” falls into this category in the idea of the single effect. The short story starts with the Narrator going to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher because of a letter Roderick writes to him. The Narrator goes to the house and spends time with Usher, but all starts to go array when Roderick thinks his sister is dead and buries her. She comes out of her tomb and jumps at Usher and the House of Usher falls and Roderick dies. Poe argues that all short stories should have a single effect; a feeling the author should make the reader feel. The single effect of “The Fall of the House of Usher” is terror. Poe creates the single effect of terror through the settings, characters, and elements of the story. He does this through the setting of Usher’s room and Madeline’s tomb; through the characters of Roderick and Madeline Usher; and through the element of the Haunted Palace.

Edgar Allan Poe once said that “all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” This eerie, dream view on life is explained in “The Fall of the House of Usher.” In this story, a mysterious narrator visits an old friend. However, it symbolizes Poe himself going to destroy his own issues, which is represented by his friend, Roderick. He manages to explain this by using symbolism, tone and mood, and language to his advantage.

Edgar Allan Poe loved to create many gothic literature that would provoke the readers to think deeper to find meaning. This reality is made clear in Poe's short story "The Fall of the House of Usher. " In this story, a nameless character visits his sick friend, Roderick Usher. Only to find the house(family) of Usher to be in eerie shambles. The narrator finds the house to be producing a gloomy and depressing atmosphere as does Roderick, who blames the house for his sickness.

Throughout, The Fall of the House of Usher, Poe utilized his romantic philosophy on shallowest level to immerse the reader in a depressing environment, encapsulating his mind and plunging him into a strange story of ancestral tension

From the opening line of “The Fall of the House of Usher”, there is a gloomy and dark tone that Edgar Allen Poe places on the story. The narrator often describes the scene as shadowy and that foreshadows the horrific events that are to come right off of the bat. This story is written about the main character, Roderick Usher, and the mental illness that falls upon him and his mansion. He invites the narrator to visit him to help cope with this overwhelming fear that consumes him. Throughout the story Poe uses the rhetorical device, symbolism, to depict his feelings and to give a sense of foreshadowing and to give insight into his thoughts and feelings. Poe uses symbolism and imagery in a way that foreshadows the events to come and throughout the story these rhetorical devices give insight into the shifts of Roderick’s feelings and to the components of the story.

Edgar All Poe uses literary devices in order to create a pragmatically desolate mood in his short story The Fall of the House of Usher. Poe’s famed melodramatic writing style shines through with his use of idioms in this story; his masterfully described setting also helps to create a feeling of dread and isolation. The story begins with the description of a bleak house surrounded by an unkempt yard complete with rampant bushes, rotten trees, and a putrid tarn. The narrator of the story tells how the bleakness and wildness of the estate has inspired a sense of dread and isolation in him.

The Fall of the House of Usher is one of Poe’s stories that fits into Gothic Literature.The setting in gothic literature can be a variety of choices. Poe’s setting in this story takes place in a castle that has dark corners and takes place mid century. The House of Usher is gloomy and the inside it seems dead as well. Poe wanted to emphasize the structure of the house by giving it a gloomy feeling. The characters of the story is doppelgangers and the unreliable narrator which is the key element to gothic.The main character Roderick Usher and his twin sister, Madeline, have a romance that is dark. The narrator of the story is unreliable because he can’t describe how the house is after he sees it in person inside of the reflection of the water.In the story supernatural events happened such as the house falling apart little by little. This emphasize Usher’s own mind going crazy which is probably why the house is destroyed little by little.Usher and his sister have an illness such as Usher going crazy and his sister who has a sickness. The theme of this story is fear,dark,madness,and isolation.

The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe is a very dark and eerie story. This gothic tale is very complexly written, as many of Poe’s works are. In this story, there were two main themes that stood out: fear and friendship. The fear of Roderick Usher as well as the narrator’s fear and the friendship of the two. And although there are many elements of this story that are noteworthy, most importantly though is the authors vagueness throughout.

Edgar Allan Poe is undoubtedly one of American Literature's legendary and prolific writers, and it is normal to say that his works touched on many aspects of the human psyche and personality. While he was no psychologist, he wrote about things that could evoke the reasons behind every person's character, whether flawed or not. Some would say his works are of the horror genre, succeeding in frightening his audience into trying to finish reading the book in one sitting, but making them think beyond the story and analyze it through imagery. The "Fall of the House of Usher" is one such tale that uses such frightening imagery that one can only sigh in relief that it is just a work of fiction. However, based on the biography of Poe, events

"The Fall of the House of Usher" has the quintessential - elements of the Gothic story: a spooky house, bleak scene, secretive infection, and multiplied identity. For all its effortlessly identifiable Gothic components, nonetheless, some portion of the dread of this story is its dubiousness. We can't state for beyond any doubt where on the planet or precisely when the story happens. Rather than standard account markers of place and time, Poe utilizes conventional Gothic components, for example, severe climate and a fruitless scene. We are separated from everyone else with the storyteller in this spooky space, and neither we nor the - storyteller know why. In spite of the fact that he is Roderick's most personal childhood companion, the storyteller clearly does not know much about him—like the essential reality that Roderick has a twin sister. Poe makes to inquiry the

Edgar Allan Poe is a well-known fixture in American literature; whose stories have made sizeable contributions to the Gothic literary element. Many of Poe’s stories contain more than one Gothic element. “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a prime example of this. In this story Poe presents the themes of death and the accompanying supernatural. Poe often uses his proficiency in Gothic to invoke deep reading. For many, this proficiency causes Poe’s stories to be difficult to fully understand at first glance.

Edgar Allan Poe is most well known for his mysterious and macabre short stories and poems. Other cryptic works of his include “The Raven” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.” In “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Edgar Allan Poe uses emphasis on the senses, Romanticism’s superiority