We are to take the tale literally as a tale of the supernatural, and thus everything takes place exactly as the narrator describes it. At the beginning, it says,” During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was -- but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.” This could have to deal with something supernatural, because when he seen the House of Usher an “insufferable gloom pervaded his spirit.
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The house is dull, old looking, huge, and also creepy, it kind of sets off a sense of being a haunted house in a way. “In regard to an influence whose supposititious force was conveyed in terms too shadowy here to be re-stated -- an influence which some peculiarities in the mere form and substance of his family mansion, had, by dint of long sufferance, he said, obtained over his spirit.” This shows that he is superstitious and believes in things that are supernatural and he is very superstitious o this house and what supernatural beings could be involved in it. Also, the long sufferance obtained over his spirit as he said, this house contains a lot of things that could be …show more content…
Madeline then fell on Roderick and then Roderick fell to his death as well, this would have to be dealing with supernatural because, how does someone just fall on top of someone and then that person also falls to his death. “There came a fierce breath of the whirlwind -- the entire orb of the satellite burst at once upon my sight -- my brain reeled as I saw the mighty walls rushing asunder -- there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand waters -- and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the "House of Usher."The narrator thought that he was going insane and then he ran out of the house in terror, when he does that the whole house falls to the ground. The house might of been really old but it does not just crumble to the ground like
The house is dull, old looking, huge, and also creepy, it kind of sets off a sense of being a haunted house in a way. “In regard to an influence whose supposititious force was conveyed in terms too shadowy here to be re-stated -- an influence which some peculiarities in the mere form and substance of his family mansion, had, by dint of long sufferance, he said, obtained over his spirit.” This shows that he is superstitious and believes in things that are supernatural and he is very superstitious o this house and what supernatural beings could be involved in it. Also, the long sufferance obtained over his spirit as he said, this house contains a lot of things that could be …show more content…
Madeline then fell on Roderick and then Roderick fell to his death as well, this would have to be dealing with supernatural because, how does someone just fall on top of someone and then that person also falls to his death. “There came a fierce breath of the whirlwind -- the entire orb of the satellite burst at once upon my sight -- my brain reeled as I saw the mighty walls rushing asunder -- there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand waters -- and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the "House of Usher."The narrator thought that he was going insane and then he ran out of the house in terror, when he does that the whole house falls to the ground. The house might of been really old but it does not just crumble to the ground like