Theme Of Death And Darkness In The Fall Of The House Of Usher

Edgar Allen Poe was a dark and depressing man; making him mostly write about death and darkness which consists in a lot of his themes for his short stories. Such as “Cask of Amontillado”, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, and the “Tell-Tale Heart”. In “Cask of Amontillado” Montresor the (main character)”Upon insult I vowed revenge” on a rich wine taster, named Fortunato. So he tricked him to test some wine. Then Montresor pounced on Fortunato and chained him to a wall and built a brick wall around him to leave him die. Also in “The fall of the House Of Usher” included darkness and caused death. The narrator traveled all the way from Boston to see his sick friend Madeline. But was told to go away by her brother Roderick. He was too in love with here to leave. She was found dead by Rodrick and the narrator so they moved her body to the tomb in the house of Usher. Days later she woke and escaped from the tomb and scared Rodrick to death. The narrator ran frightened and saw the house of usher crumble to the ground. In attention to the “Tell-Tale Heart” the narrator confesses to wanting to kill an old man. His motivation was not desire for money, but rather a fear of the man’s pale blue eye; he insists he is not crazy. Every night at midnight, he went to the old man’s room and secretly stalked the man while he is sleeping waiting for the eye to open. “I knew he could not see so I kept pushing the door, I had my head in, and was about to open the lantern, when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening” and the old man sprang up in the bed. He waited a whole hour and the old man stayed sitting in his bed listening. He was hearing the old man's heart race louder and louder so he could not take it so he yelped …show more content…
Those are all examples of the consistency of Poe's short story themes and are just a few examples of the Dark themes that Poe has