Isolation In The Fall Of The House Of Usher

The House of Usher contains atypical and aberrant behavior from its storyline. The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe, provides the readers with a gothic and frightening atmosphere. The short story takes place in the House of Usher, the owner, Roderick Usher begins to have strange intentions once his sister, Madeline, passed. Roderick wishes to be in complete isolation and also begins to conduct himself as paranoid. The Narrator of the story is nameless and also simply wants to assist Roderick in his time of need and sorrow. The Narrator’s high use of descriptions and the characters in general manifest an uncanny nature. Poe displays a strong tone eeriness in his short story, The Fall of the House of Usher, as illustrated when

Roderick Usher is known for being paranoid and isolated throughout the story and displays a strong eerie tone. “His action was alternately vivacious and sullen. his voice carried rapidly from a tremulous indecision (when the animal spirits seemed utterly in abeyance) to that species of energetic concision...” (Poe 417). Roderick Usher gives the impression of an unnatural begin with his abnormal actions, clothes, decor of his household, and the considerable amount of isolation he has provided himself. Roderick then continues to manifest his strange intentions, “He was enchained by certain superstitious impressions in regard to the dwelling which he tenanted, and whence ifr many years, he had ventured forth - in regard to an influence whose supposititious force was conveyed in terms too shadowy here to be re-stated - an influence which some peculiarities in the mere form and substance of his family mansion had, by dint of long sufferance, he said, obtained over his spirit…” (Poe 417 - 418). The narrator admires the fact of helping Roderick and his behavior but Roderick is considered as a frightening character even though the two paint and read books together. (Which creates a more positive mood to the short