A wise person once stated, “Fear is not real. It is the product of thoughts you create. Danger is very real, but fear is a choice.” Edgar Allen Poe and Julio Cortazar used fear to create paranoia throughout their stories, “The House of Usher” and “House Taken Over.” These characters show tremendous fear and emotions. In the short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, by Edgar Allen Poe, Gothic Literature is shown. Throughout the story, it demonstrates characters with extreme emotions and is set in a very dismal, dark, and terrifying old mansion. Throughout the story, “House Taken Over”, by Julio Cortazar, magical realism is demonstrated. “House Taken Over”, is set in an eerie, abnormal house. Furthermore, In both stories, imagination overcomes
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In the short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, he uses dark, fearful, and unwelcoming words to define the outside and inside of the Usher household. Also, the main characters are Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, and the narrator whose name is not mentioned. The main character and owner of the house, Roderick User is suffering from an emotional illness. For this reason, when Roderick is foreshadowing his death, he states, "…the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR." (pg 18) Roderick's fear could be Madeline, but he never directly tells the readers. At the end, Madeline rushes upon him and he falls to the floor a corpse, too terrified to go on living. Roderick User dies of fear. Therefore, the house of Usher sets a dark tone throughout the story. The narrator describes it as the “mansion of gloom” (14). The narrator observes that the house seems to have absorbed an evil and diseased atmosphere from the “decaying trees” (15) and murky ponds around it. Roderick is paranoid because he thinks his sister was buried alive. The dark, terrifying house, does not help Rodericks emotional illness and the eerie environment creates imagination over
In the short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, he uses dark, fearful, and unwelcoming words to define the outside and inside of the Usher household. Also, the main characters are Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, and the narrator whose name is not mentioned. The main character and owner of the house, Roderick User is suffering from an emotional illness. For this reason, when Roderick is foreshadowing his death, he states, "…the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR." (pg 18) Roderick's fear could be Madeline, but he never directly tells the readers. At the end, Madeline rushes upon him and he falls to the floor a corpse, too terrified to go on living. Roderick User dies of fear. Therefore, the house of Usher sets a dark tone throughout the story. The narrator describes it as the “mansion of gloom” (14). The narrator observes that the house seems to have absorbed an evil and diseased atmosphere from the “decaying trees” (15) and murky ponds around it. Roderick is paranoid because he thinks his sister was buried alive. The dark, terrifying house, does not help Rodericks emotional illness and the eerie environment creates imagination over