Romantic Elements In The Fall Of The House Of Usher

The Fall of the House of Usher is a short story made by the famous author, Edgar Allan Poe. It's a horror story with romantic elements. Not romantic as in love and emotions, it's an example of Romanticism. Although is worth mentioning that Poe indeed was able to write romantic stories with love and all, though he's more popular for making horror and terrified the reader getting inside their head. What is Romanticism? At its core Romanticism was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. It was a sort of unique writing style that structured the stories with predetermined characteristics. A story that presents romanticism has various very defining characteristics like a Gothic style, a lot of Symbolism and many times supernatural elements. If we inspect the story "The Fall of the House Usher" we can very quickly and easily find all these elements. Let's recap them.

The very first and easies one would be the Gothic style. This doesn't only mean that the stories were dark, gloomy, and overall depressing, they were yes but there is so …show more content…
These are somewhat easy to find in this and many others of Poe's works, an example would be that many time there seem to be "ghosts" in his stories, like in "The Black Cat" and even though is quite debatable "The tell-tale heart". In this story there is the "connection" the twins share, although there are other things that are a lot more noticeable. Like when while reading, all the descriptions of that came out of the book, actually happened around the narrator and Roderick. The very weird death of Madeleine could also count here as a supernatural event since the circumstances. Her disease made her look death and while not impossible that's improbable. The best example ere can also be the