In “The Fall of the House of Usher,” many conflicting theories exist on what is going on in this rather ambiguous story. Are the Ushers vampires, is it all just natural causes, or perhaps are they haunted? However, it is truly, none of these, for the abounding evidence favoring the house and the Ushers to be linked by a curse. Evidence such as the house, reflecting the condition of its residence or that it is stated that figures in robes of sorrow came and Madeline’s “resurrection” all lead to a curse Who actually cursed the Ushers is a good question and one of the main points of evidence for this explanation. “ Evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate;”(Poe 31). This is a line in a song sung by Roderick Usher.
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At the beginning of the story, the narrator states “with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.”(Poe 21). This also reflects the state of the Ushers as they are both very close to death. Rodrick is often said to feel the same, much like the narrator when he first arrives at the house, because of such a reason. Another point to be made is about the reason the narrator feels such a gloom. The narrator says the house is decaying and points out some of these features “ upon a few rank sedges-and upon the few white trunks of decayed trees.”(Poe 21). When you consider that the Usher house has numerous servants and is an ancient and powerful family why would the estate be like this. However what if the servants have tried to clean up the estate, but it all changes or becomes worse. the curse would not allow the house to become nice while the family is in such a state as it is so heavily tied to the family. To wrap up this point and which is the strongest evidence for this point the house fall apart once both ushers finally die. What makes it more linked is what happens as the house falls down “There was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voices of a thousand waters.” ( Poe 40). Which further supports that the family was linked to the house because as it was falling the curse was broken as the whole family was finally wiped out by the curse. This freed the souls of all the past Ushers since they most likely could not leave due to the
At the beginning of the story, the narrator states “with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.”(Poe 21). This also reflects the state of the Ushers as they are both very close to death. Rodrick is often said to feel the same, much like the narrator when he first arrives at the house, because of such a reason. Another point to be made is about the reason the narrator feels such a gloom. The narrator says the house is decaying and points out some of these features “ upon a few rank sedges-and upon the few white trunks of decayed trees.”(Poe 21). When you consider that the Usher house has numerous servants and is an ancient and powerful family why would the estate be like this. However what if the servants have tried to clean up the estate, but it all changes or becomes worse. the curse would not allow the house to become nice while the family is in such a state as it is so heavily tied to the family. To wrap up this point and which is the strongest evidence for this point the house fall apart once both ushers finally die. What makes it more linked is what happens as the house falls down “There was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voices of a thousand waters.” ( Poe 40). Which further supports that the family was linked to the house because as it was falling the curse was broken as the whole family was finally wiped out by the curse. This freed the souls of all the past Ushers since they most likely could not leave due to the