The Fallen House Of Usher Essay

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My first thoughts after reading “The Fallen House of Usher” was my curiosity behind the enigmatic translations of certain scenarios in the story and what I assume must be symbology intertwined into Poe’s intended darker meanings or messages behind the meanings real story. There were a number of areas in the story where rational logic couldn’t clearly define a purpose or meaning but remained imperative to the final outcome. Such as why if Roderick and the narrator had been friends for so long didn’t he know about Roderick having a twin much less a sister? Or why the house was used as almost a fourth main character in the story. Describing it as if it had eyes and a soul as if it had a deeper symbolic meaning behind the Ushers family problems. Or why despite the house having a solid foundation in the beginning of the story …show more content…
To compare to its predecessor the Enlightenment period. The “Romantics” were, by comparison, a counter movement to the Enlightenment period in those things like the industrial revolution, science, progress or rationality were no longer perceived as good but more considered as derogatory concepts that were not to be sought after. Simply stated, the Romantic period was an artistic movement based on the heart versus the mind. One common way of expressing this movement was not only through literature but through art and specifically through that of “medieval artwork”. This was because the medieval period was a time of religious based thought and had not gone through all the scientific gains and social changes of the Enlightenment period. This was considered desirable in the mind of the