Comparing The Fall Of The House Of Usher And The Sixth Sense

To begin with, imagination overcomes reasoning in the characters of the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher”. While in the middle of the storm the narrator seems to be hearing strange noises that have nothing to do with the storm. For example, “An irrepressible tremor gradually pervaded my frame; and at length, there sat upon my very heart an incubus of utterly causeless alarm. Shaking this off with a gasp and a struggle, I uplifted myself upon the pillows” (paragraph 31, pg 25). This shows readers that the narrator of the story is hearing noises, and it could be said that Usher’s condition is rubbing off on him. The narrator is unable to sleep at this point in the story because of Usher’s incurable fears that have now taken influence on the narrator because he believes he is hearing things. This demonstrates how imagination overcomes reason in the short

“Fear is not real. It is the product of thoughts you create. Danger is very real, but fear is only a choice.” Fear is not something that is always real, such as when Usher was scared but there was nothing to fear yet, but the danger at the end of the story, especially for Ushers friend, was something to fear for. In the Gothic Literature short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, the setting is somber and creates an illusion of darkness. On the other hand, “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortazar, portrays the idea of magical realism in, which setting is more realistic and less gloomy. Although Gothic Literature and Magical Realism are similar, there are also many differences, especially in their settings.

“Limits, like fear, is often an illusion”(Michael Jordan). As explained in this quote, your imagination is really what drives you to fear. Based on the texts, “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe and “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortázar, fear is a key concept that often gets mixed with your imagination and replaces reality. Through these stories, your mind is shown to control many things you do or possibly see which forces yourself to feel like you’re out of reality.

Many people have different perspectives on how imagination can overcome reason and create mindless fear. For example, you could be overthinking and feel like someone or something is with you when you are home alone and hear odd noises, however, most of the time it could be an object or something not so serious. Stories like The Fall Of The House of Usher and House Taken Over are also good examples for this reason. Imagination can overcome reason and create mindless fear when you overthink about it and believe an event may have a bad consequence.

Edgar Allan Poe used fear to attract his readers into his gothic world. Poe realized that fear intrigues as well as frightens, and sew it as a perfect motif for many of his stories, particularly The Fall of the House of Usher. Poe emphasized the mysterious, desolate, and gloomy surroundings throughout the story to set up the fear that got the reader involved. Then he extended the fear to the characters in order to reveal the importance of facing and overcoming fear. Poe suggested in the story that the denial of fears can lead to madness and insanity. This has clearly shown through the weakening of Roderick Usher's mind and the resulting impact on the narrator of the story.

Imagination can overcome fear even when there is no reason to be frightened. As shown in the

What is fear? Fear is that pit in the back of your stomach, your anticipation to do something, overwhelming yourself for no reason or a nightmare you might have. Most of the time people blame their fear on other people. This is inaccurate; a person only controls there own fears. A person's brain can

It seems a simple task to create the potential of fear. People have grown to fear mainly similar things and ultimately anything that endangers the innocent part of human kind. Sadly, there is only a slight hint of true innocence that exists in us as humans. How come fear intrueges us, it is not the knowing of its unrealness, because for a moment there, it seems real. Therefore it is an art, how can one be freigthened and fascinated in its most beautiful way. How is it conjured, not just the fear of actual danger, but the art of darkness.

Over the past two weeks, I have read two different stories about fear. Fear is an automatic response to physical and emotional danger we sense. People handle fear in many different ways but almost all of us let our imagination overcome reason.

Being fearful about something can manipulate your mind to thinking of things that aren't actually present. Fear can get to the best of us at times and can make a person feel small and alone, even though they’re in a group with others facing the same situation. Shirley Jackson the author of The Haunting of Hill House shows this exact situation of fear taking over a person by showing it in the main character, a young woman named Eleanor, who comes from a small town which who was invited to visit the Hill House by a doctor named Dr. Montague to study what really goes on in the house. Throughout the story Eleanor, shows many different types of personalities which can go from being serious to energetic in a heartbeat which makes the story

“Vertigo (1958)” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” Comparison Edgar Allan Poe was a famous poet in the late 1800’s who had created many famous works in his lifetime, that have gone on to inspire many horror artists throughout the ages. Artists such as Edouard Manet, Arthur Rackham, Aubrey Beardsley and more famous horror artists such as Stephen King and Alfred Hitchcock. Stephen King has created many movies in the horror genre, “Maximum Overdrive” “The Shining” and “Cujo”, and Alfred Hitchcock has had his fair share of movies as well, “The Birds,” “Psycho” and “The Man Who Knew Too Much.” Of course there are many more movies created by these artists, but the one that stands out in particular is Hitchcock’s “Vertigo (1958).” In comparison to Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “Vertigo (1958)” is the same tale, but modernized for the public.

In Edgar Allen Poe’s story, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, Poe creates an atmosphere of fear by Roderick knew he buried his sister alive. The narrator was summon to House of Usher by his friend in boyhood Roderick Usher that he have gotten a mental disease. He gets there and his friend is different from the last time he saw him. “When,one evening, having informed me that the lady Madeline was no more,”(Poe #23). Roderick and the narrator completely trapped Madeline in that coffin.

Writers have various ways to scare their readers, whether it’s with unexplainable and unnatural things, or just straight out disgusting things, everyone has their own method. In the two short stories, “ The Fall of the House of Usher ” by Edgar Allen Poe, and “ House Taken Over ” by Julio Cortazar, it is evident that both writers have distinct writing styles, but do share some similar elements in their stories. These two works of literature feature many qualities of the subgenres known as, Gothic and Magical Realism, which are two methods that have been used in the past to bring fear in readers. For Poe’s story, he writes with the gothic subgenre, while Cortazar writes with magical realism. Although both stories share a certain atmosphere,

In Gothic literature, horror stories portray an atmosphere of tense and the stories itself are thrilling. The effect of horror stories portray the internal conflict with the setting, between the character’s mind and his/her surrounding. In horror stories, imagination overcomes reason through the effect of setting, mood, and the characterization of characters which portrays the effect of thrill.

The story of “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe reveals the terrors that can derive from fear. The story starts with the description by the narrator of his friends Roderick Usher’s house, the text reads, “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was --but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.” (Poe 654) The story later goes onto explain how Roderick and his twin sister, Madeline are the last of the Usher bloodline and both suffer from serious illnesses. Madeline although, suffers from a more serious illness catalepsy resulting in various seizures. Upon one of her seizures Roderick declares Madeline as dead and asks the narrator to help bury her. A week goes past and the narrator and Roderick are reading