The Fall Of The House Of Usher Literary Analysis

“The Fall of the House of Usher” takes many of the literary devices that Edgar Allan Poe used in many of his other writings to create a world that shows why Poe is held in such high regard. Poe creates a tone that allows the reader to experience the same emotions as the narrator. The story beings with the narrator journeying to the Usher household to catch up with his childhood friend Roderick Usher. Despite not keeping in touch for several years the narrator goes to his friend’s home and attempts to comfort Roderick after he tells him that his sister has died. For several days, the narrator tries to help Roderick cope with the loss of his sister even helping him bury to temporarily bury her in the home. Ultimately it is revealed that Madeline, Roderick sister wasn’t dead and that they had buried her alive. She fights her way out of her tomb and as she is dying, attacks Roderick and he dies of fright. Her fall is what destroys the house of Usher, both the family line and the house …show more content…
Even the narrator feels it and through his description of the house it becomes a another member of the Usher family who is also suffering from the madness within. Even the narrator feels it saying, “ I struggled to reason off the nervousness which had dominion over me” (Poe 14) That same madness begins to tear the Ushers apart. The fall of the house of Usher isn’t one fall and it doesn’t come out of nowhere. Before Madeline even shows up we see one half of what is left of the family finally succumbs to madness as the guilt of locking away his sister and ending his family legacy eats him alive. As the narrator reads to Roderick trying to calm him down and change the mood in the house. The sound house begins to fill with the sound of something escaping from where they bury Madeline. His madness makes Roderick unable to think clearly and when Madeline appears he’s completely consumed by