“Fall of the House of Usher” gothic elements
In the fictional story, “Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, Poe creates an atmosphere that is uncomforting and does so by using gothic elements. He employed the theme, that not everything is what you believe it is. In doing so he created a story that could leave the reader confused on what is going on right then and there in the story. Through specific gothic elements, Poe successfully creates a suspenseful mood in his short story.
Through specific gothic elements, Poe successfully creates an eerie and mysterious setting. Poe does this by deciding to put the mansion in an eerie location. “... upon the mere house, and the simple landscape, features the domain -upon the bleak walls- …show more content…
He used gothic elements to create a feeling of the supernatural, by leaving an unexplained sound, if explanation wasn’t caught prior. “Here again I paused abruptly, and now with a feeling of wild amusement for there could be no doubt whatever that, in this instance, I did actually hear (although from which direction it proceeded I found it impossible to say) a low and apparently distant, but harsh, protected, and most, unusual screaming or grating sound...”(Poe 12). The sounds that the narrator hears, although explained if caught, is unexplained. It created an almost supernatural sound with an unknown origin. These sounds that the narrator is hearing, or he thinks he is hearing, coincided directly from the book that he read aloud and sounded like events that were happening on the other side of the door. The Youtube video ““Fall of the House of Usher” Discussion”, uploaded by Jay Springfield, is a video discussing the short story by Edgar Allan Poe. In this video, Jay Springfield brings up that their are many different interpretations of the story, and that all or most of them are sick. He brings up the theory of vampirism in the book, the vampire being Madeline and Usher being the victim, he also brings up the theory that the house becomes a character and that it has a soul and he brings up the vacant ‘eye-like’ windows stating that they could be windows to it’s soul. The final theory he presented, …show more content…
“Poe and the apocalyptic sublime: ‘The Fall of the House of Usher.’” Papers on Language & Literature 48.1 (2012): 3+. Literature Research Center. Web. 5 sept 2016.
Gillespie, John T. and Corinne J Naden. “Overview: The Fall of the House of Usher.” Characters in Young Adult Literature, Gale, 1997. Literature Research Center
Heim, William J. “The Fall of the House of Usher: Overview.” Reference guide to American Literature edited by Jim Kamp, 3rd ed. St.James Press, 1994. Literary Resource Center.
Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Print, pp 1-13.
“Fall of the House of Usher” Discussion. Perf. Jay Springfield. Youtube. N.p. 15 Nov. 2011. Web. 29. March.
In the fictional story, “Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, Poe creates an atmosphere that is uncomforting and does so by using gothic elements. He employed the theme, that not everything is what you believe it is. In doing so he created a story that could leave the reader confused on what is going on right then and there in the story. Through specific gothic elements, Poe successfully creates a suspenseful mood in his short story.
Through specific gothic elements, Poe successfully creates an eerie and mysterious setting. Poe does this by deciding to put the mansion in an eerie location. “... upon the mere house, and the simple landscape, features the domain -upon the bleak walls- …show more content…
He used gothic elements to create a feeling of the supernatural, by leaving an unexplained sound, if explanation wasn’t caught prior. “Here again I paused abruptly, and now with a feeling of wild amusement for there could be no doubt whatever that, in this instance, I did actually hear (although from which direction it proceeded I found it impossible to say) a low and apparently distant, but harsh, protected, and most, unusual screaming or grating sound...”(Poe 12). The sounds that the narrator hears, although explained if caught, is unexplained. It created an almost supernatural sound with an unknown origin. These sounds that the narrator is hearing, or he thinks he is hearing, coincided directly from the book that he read aloud and sounded like events that were happening on the other side of the door. The Youtube video ““Fall of the House of Usher” Discussion”, uploaded by Jay Springfield, is a video discussing the short story by Edgar Allan Poe. In this video, Jay Springfield brings up that their are many different interpretations of the story, and that all or most of them are sick. He brings up the theory of vampirism in the book, the vampire being Madeline and Usher being the victim, he also brings up the theory that the house becomes a character and that it has a soul and he brings up the vacant ‘eye-like’ windows stating that they could be windows to it’s soul. The final theory he presented, …show more content…
“Poe and the apocalyptic sublime: ‘The Fall of the House of Usher.’” Papers on Language & Literature 48.1 (2012): 3+. Literature Research Center. Web. 5 sept 2016.
Gillespie, John T. and Corinne J Naden. “Overview: The Fall of the House of Usher.” Characters in Young Adult Literature, Gale, 1997. Literature Research Center
Heim, William J. “The Fall of the House of Usher: Overview.” Reference guide to American Literature edited by Jim Kamp, 3rd ed. St.James Press, 1994. Literary Resource Center.
Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Print, pp 1-13.
“Fall of the House of Usher” Discussion. Perf. Jay Springfield. Youtube. N.p. 15 Nov. 2011. Web. 29. March.