The Fall Of The House Of Usher Rhetorical Analysis

Unlike “MS. Found in a Bottle” in which the narrator dreads the apparent phenomenon of the whirlpool, “The Fall of the House of Usher” shows that fear of death lies in the fear of the intangible and the unknown. Roderick Usher believes that he will die of fear. When he is foreshadowing his death, he says: "the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR" (Poe, The Fall 392). Usher tries to explain to the Narrator that he is frightened of "the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results" (Ibid). The narrator’s final encounter with the Usher twins just before the destruction of the house is a terrifying situation akin to a nightmare. Usher is afraid of something ambiguous. It seems that it is an irrational fear. There is no clear reason for his fear …show more content…
The process of burial in Poe 's "The Premature Burial" is quick and short-lived scene whereas the obsession with the thought is all over the story. In “The Fall of House of Usher", the scene is just mentioned at the tongue of Usher. And the whole event of the story comes as a warning and dangerous result of this burial. But in “The Cask of Amontillado,” Poe makes this scene of burial exceedingly long and draws out the elements of fear. It is clear that slow death is worse than quick death. This slowdown in burying Fortunato alive is because of revenge. But in "The Premature Burial" the event is just an idea that causes fear and worry to the narrator and he wants to cure himself of it. In "The Fall of House of Usher" Madeline 's premature burial at the hand of her twin Usher makes her a victim and her brother received punishment. In “The Cask of Amontillado” Montresor, the killer, dies mentally not physically. This means that his wild and merciless murder explains his corrupt and absent mind and the absence of mind is like