Edgar Allan Poe “became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity” relating himself to the character Roderick Usher in one of his amazing short stories, “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Poe had a depressing and heartbreaking life, which reflects in his writings, as he is known for horror and mystery stories. Edgar Allan Poe horrifyingly and ghastly reflects Roderick Usher’s creepy and eerie appearance to the decayed, “crumbling”, and lightless house magnificently revealing Roderick’s fear that is killing him.
Roderick’s macabre appearance is dramatically amplified to wonderfully juxtapose the deterioration to the “melancholy House of Usher.” Poe skillfully creates an uncanny resemblance between Roderick and the house to symbolize the …show more content…
Furthermore the dreadful physical setting wonderfully exaggerates the mentally ill Roderick. Roderick’s eyes “tortured by even a faint light” are compared to “the vacant eye-like windows” suggesting the lifeless and lightless eyes of Roderick turning him into darkness subsequently triggering his deterioration. This “mansion of gloom” sits in a “dull, dark” atmosphere with “extensive decay” and a “token of instability” which Poe unsettlingly justifies the mental degradation of Roderick Usher. As a result, Roderick’s magnificent deterioration along with the house is rightfully justified as both fall at the end. As the …show more content…
The eeriness of the House and Roderick disturbingly foreshadows the narrator’s dreadfulness feeling. The narrator unimaginably notices the clouds hanging “oppressively low” symbolizing that nothing is allowed into the home which is why the house and its inhabitants are so used to the dark that even purity hurts them. Therefore, the “decayed trees” wonderfully symbolize the death of the house and Roderick. As the narrator goes through the house with this grim feeling, he notices the fear surrounding Roderick. When the narrator arrived to the house, he described the Usher family’s “direct line of descent” in which he believed caused the illness Roderick had; this symbolizes that the narrator was already uneasy just by the presence of the house as well as the knowledge of the Usher family. The narrator also notices the atmosphere void of “air of heaven” suggesting that paradise from this house has been gone due to the fear that death is near. Consequently, Roderick’s fear ultimately causes the collapse of the house of Usher. The “black and lurid tarn” that lies near the dwelling foreshadows the demise of Roderick and the inhabitants’ fate. Subsequently, Roderick’s paranoia caused by the “darkness” in his “iciness, a sinking, a sickening of {his} heart” which ultimately causes the fall of the house of Usher. Roderick’s dreadful feeling
Roderick’s macabre appearance is dramatically amplified to wonderfully juxtapose the deterioration to the “melancholy House of Usher.” Poe skillfully creates an uncanny resemblance between Roderick and the house to symbolize the …show more content…
Furthermore the dreadful physical setting wonderfully exaggerates the mentally ill Roderick. Roderick’s eyes “tortured by even a faint light” are compared to “the vacant eye-like windows” suggesting the lifeless and lightless eyes of Roderick turning him into darkness subsequently triggering his deterioration. This “mansion of gloom” sits in a “dull, dark” atmosphere with “extensive decay” and a “token of instability” which Poe unsettlingly justifies the mental degradation of Roderick Usher. As a result, Roderick’s magnificent deterioration along with the house is rightfully justified as both fall at the end. As the …show more content…
The eeriness of the House and Roderick disturbingly foreshadows the narrator’s dreadfulness feeling. The narrator unimaginably notices the clouds hanging “oppressively low” symbolizing that nothing is allowed into the home which is why the house and its inhabitants are so used to the dark that even purity hurts them. Therefore, the “decayed trees” wonderfully symbolize the death of the house and Roderick. As the narrator goes through the house with this grim feeling, he notices the fear surrounding Roderick. When the narrator arrived to the house, he described the Usher family’s “direct line of descent” in which he believed caused the illness Roderick had; this symbolizes that the narrator was already uneasy just by the presence of the house as well as the knowledge of the Usher family. The narrator also notices the atmosphere void of “air of heaven” suggesting that paradise from this house has been gone due to the fear that death is near. Consequently, Roderick’s fear ultimately causes the collapse of the house of Usher. The “black and lurid tarn” that lies near the dwelling foreshadows the demise of Roderick and the inhabitants’ fate. Subsequently, Roderick’s paranoia caused by the “darkness” in his “iciness, a sinking, a sickening of {his} heart” which ultimately causes the fall of the house of Usher. Roderick’s dreadful feeling