Foreshadowing In The Fall Of The House Of Usher

"The Fall of the House of Usher" is about the usher household which only had two surviving members which are Roderick and Madeline Usher. Roderick Usher is a man filled with fear of dying and is worried about his family name going extinct. Madeline Usher is the last female in the small household of Usher and is the sister of Roderick. Madeline has a very strange cataleptical disease which makes her stay sleep for long times which makes it hard to tell if she's alive or not. In "The Fall of the House of Usher" the theme, that extinction is becoming of the Usher family and they will die, is reinforced by setting, foreshadowing, and character of the story.
First and foremost, setting is an aspect of the theme because the house is the reason why Roderick is has fear of …show more content…
For example, Roderick says "I must perish in this bounden slave" (Poe, pg9) foreshadows that Roderick will die. Poe also foreshadows Madeline's death because she has a cataleptical disease that makes her sleep for long periods. This is an example because they can't really tell if she dead or just sleeping. In addition, Poe foreshadows the house crumbling or falling apart by illustrating how unstable and how the house with cracks reaching from the roof to the ground, or how the characters can't move freely in the house.
Another, aspect of the theme is character on to repeat how the characters are similar to the house. For example, the character Roderick is in fear and is unhealthy as it says in the story which can also represent the house on how it looks as its decaying (Poe, pg15). Poe metaphorically uses the word house to describe the characters and the house as well. Poe makes inanimate objects characters to as you can see he makes the house seem as monstrous character. Poe also gives characters that may die in the end with a cataleptical disease to imply they maybe be dead by the end of the