Fall Of The House Of Usher

“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year,” (412) is the first sentence in The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe. This beginning sentence sets the tone of dark. Gothic Literature’s style has elements of fear, horror, gloomy and death; it gives the feeling of suspense and fear. This story is a great example of Gothic Literature. In this story the narrator goes to Usher’s house, which is mysterious, and becomes aware that the house is like Usher who is sick. Poe’s technique of the unified effect accomplishes its intended purpose through the setting, plot development and imagery.

An analytical essay of “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and “Where is Here?”

You’re imagination can be your point of view, your perspective. Reason can be your explanation or justification on a certain topic. Imagination can overcome reason when you let it become your reality . Imagination can make anyone feel superior or even doubtful of themselves. When people let their imaginations run away with them it can cause fear.

In the two short stories The Fall of the House of Usher and House Taken Over. The characters in the books experience fear then they jump to conclusions. They may see or hear things and that may be normal but in their heads they overthink. This happens in both stories for example.

The Fall of the House of Usher and Where is Here, are two short stories that have similar settings. They are similar because for one, the authors were both dark, and mysterious, which would mean that they enjoyed dark and mysterious things. So in return, they're writings came out to be dark and mysterious. One of the similarities between the settings of the two short stories is that they were both written in the 1800's, so all of the houses were much more extravagant, and much more detail, so houses the characters are living in are very magnificent. Another similarity between the two is where the stories take place; in the 1800's, where if you did anything remotely bad, you were sinned for the rest of your life. The last similarity between the setting of the short stories is the characters in the stories. In each of the stories a visitor shows up, and is somewhat forced to help in completing a task with the main character that they came to visit.

The short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe is about how a nameless narrator gets invited to come see his childhood friend. Because his childhood friend named Roderick Usher, is feeling emotionally and physically unwell, the narrator rushes to be with his friend. During the narrator’s stay at the house many strange things like noises and death begin to happen. Towards the end of the story the narrator begins to hallucinate being under the power of Roderick Usher and the house.

In “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Poe is describe as gothic fiction because it sets in a house that looks like haunted house. This story was fill with dark gloomy scenes. Everywhere around this house was scary to the narrator. The lake and the nature that surrounds the house was dark and scary looking. Even the hall of the house was fill with darkness that gave fear to the narrator. Not only Poe’s work is gothic fiction, Hawthorne’s work, “Young Goodman Brown” is gothic fiction. The reason is because it is set in wilderness where Young Goodman Brown sees a devil and a witch influencing him to be like them. Because of these two works from Poe and Hawthorne gives fear and mood of darkness, these stories are classified as gothic fiction.

Imagination is the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses. While reason is a cause, explanation, or justification for an action or event. Eventually imagination can and will overcome reason it just depends on how and when that happens.

A young man ran away from a heap of ruins. He had witnessed the death of his best friend and his home but he ran away as it happened. At the moment, all was silent and not even a squeak could be heard. But if a house collapsed in the middle of a forest, and no one was around to hear it, did it make a sound? With such wonders, death, and darkness also come the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe is known as a literature legend. He wrote many complicated horror and detective fiction stories, which also represents the artsy twentieth century (“Poe” 1316). Many of his works are poems and short stories. As for his life, it started out pretty gloomily. Both of Poe’s parents had died and he was then sent to an orphanage shortly after. He was

At the beginning of the story there is a very negative feeling being attached to the appearance of the house. He uses a couple of things to try and make you feel negatively about this place. He used words and phrases such as: “insufferable gloom,” “vacant,” “black and lurid,” and the “rank sedges” were mentioned too. These are obviously there to give a sort of a bad connotation, or bad karma, to the house. He speaks of how the house has a “wild inconsistency” and how each individual stone is starting to decay and fall apart. Suggesting that the house has many problems, all problems that could possibly lead to the destruction of a house.

The Fall of The House of Usher is a short story about an unnamed character who is invited to the House of Usher by the head of the house Roderick Usher. Edgar Allen Poe has given the narrator, many characteristics that make him his own character aside from a name and a face. To see what characteristics the narrator was given examination of the story is required.

Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of America’s first romantic writers and his writings are still quite popular today. One of Hawthorne’s most popular short stories include the writing of “Young Goodman Brown.” What makes Hawthorne so progressive in today’s literary world is the fact that he makes a smooth transition from symbolism to allegory in his writings. Edgar Allan Poe uses a more gothic style of writing that gives his science fiction literature unique character. One of Poe’s more popular stories is “The Fall of the House of Usher” in which he uses deep symbolism and imagery to tell the story. Although both short stories portray critical use of allegory and symbolism, it is based upon opinion as to which story is the more superior. “Young Goodman Brown” is more superior because of its detailed characters, better use of literally techniques and deeper themes.

There are several symbolic elements in The Fall of the House of Usher, one being the title of this short story. The narrator mentions that the title “House of Usher” was “an appellation which seemed to include, in the minds of the peasantry who used it, both the family and the family mansion.” (71) With that being said, the title can not be foreshadowing just the literal destruction of the house, but may also signify the collapse of the Usher family. The narrator describes the house using human characteristics, which deepens the reader’s understanding of this parallel. The fact that Roderick Usher’s fall and the subsidence of the house both happen at the same time in the story, only strengthens the bond between the house and the family, as well as their fall.

At first, the erratic, ambiguous, and disorientating narrative style of ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ seems to lack consistent symbolism, and can be understood as a convention of the gothic genre. Macabre texts often employ unreliable narrators to convey readers down circuitous paths littered with false steps and red herrings, in order to postpone, and perhaps even prevent, arrival at singular interpretations of stories. In ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, the narrator suddenly and ambiguously reveals facts about the house and its inhabitants, and couches his observations in ornate and turgid language. These features seem superfluous, but force readers to collude in the mysterious, entertaining and infinite game of engineered interpretation that the gothic genre revels in. Nevertheless, a second reading of the text reveals uncanny similarities between the narrator and Roderick– both men ultimately share a belief in “the sentience of all vegetable things” (185), possess the power to distort the distinction between art and reality, and suffer from “a morbid acuteness of the senses” (181). This suggests that the malady plaguing the surviving branches of the Usher family has infected the narrator. Therefore, the perplexing, and oftentimes infuriating narrative style of ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ reflects both authorial manipulation essential to create a suspenseful gothic tale, and also unconscious manipulation by the mentally disturbed narrator (itself a gothic

What is Tales within the Tale? It is like a story in a story. Authors likes to use it to reinforce or reveal the plot in their works. For instance, Edgar Allan Poe, the most talked-about man of letters in America, uses tales within the tale in one of his masterpieces of horror fiction, “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Poe uses a poem/song and an Arthurian epic to reinforce the themes of this masterpiece and moves the plot.