Analysis Of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall Of The House Of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe was a great American literary critic and theoretician, which he perhaps initially applied through employments such as editor for several newspapers. His love for literature and writing expressed itself best in an encouraging environment. The author produced many short stories, poems, novels, just to mention a few, but his numerous talents bequeathed him with the title of “father of terrifying stories”. Edgar Alan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” expertly incorporates elements of character, setting and theme which render the story a frightening account with the supernatural. The reader is acquainted with the events from the narrator’s perspective, who tells it in retrospect. Poe’s talent for description as well as the

Therefore, no happy or dark thoughts or even plots for revenge are safe any longer. Poe’ s choice for description for the protagonists of the story is the element of character, but it isn’t merely a portrayal of an individual’s physical characteristics. Rather in describing Roderick Usher in his frail state of body and mind, in contrast with his own self as a youth, Poe paints a picture of a person balancing on the brink of insanity. While providing the reader with a small window to view the mechanics behind a mad man’s thinking and consider a maze of disassociated thought processes and hallucinations which Roderick distinguishes as certainty. Besides Roderick Usher, his beloved sister, Madeline Usher’s character is a portrait of a person losing a battle with a ruthless disease consuming her life force. Poe is cruel “God” in this work, as the reader might hope for her recovery, maybe there is a chance for her, but Poe sentences her without any show for mercy. The siblings’ battle for survival is doomed from the beginning as the setting of this gothic tale is dreary, retained in an ancient house that witnessed and absorbed decades of woe, which now manifests in a destructive fashion towards each