Edgar Allen Poe is known as the grandfather of horror in American Literature for being the first to use many of his signature styles in his work. The short story The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe is one of his stories containing a compelling atmosphere. The atmosphere is created by his settings and tone in the stories. The tone is very mysterious and is proven in his use of setting and plot development. The mysterious tone can be found throughout the entire story in the setting. The tone was evident in the story when the narrator walks up to the house, the setting is described as, “What was it ____ I paused to think ____ what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher? It was a mystery
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A tremendous event in the plot is when the narrator meets Roderick’s sister Madeline for the first time. During his encounter he discovers, “The disease of Lady Madeline had long baffled the skill for her physicians” (418). Poe is keeping the tone mysterious by not only having the house and Roderick act strange, though has Roderick’s twin have an unknown, deadly disease. A disease which has everyone stumped and wondering. Later on the narrator is reading to Roderick and thinks,“It was, beyond doubt, the coincidence alone which arrested my attention; for amid the rattling of the sashes of the casements, and the ordinary commingled noises of the still increasing storm, the sound itself, had nothing, surely, which would have interested or disinterested me” (428). The storm, along with the strange sounds occurring while reading Mad Trist, combined make the most creepy, and mysterious scene in the story. Edgar Allen Poe uses setting and plot development to demonstrate the mysterious tone during the duration of The Fall of the House of Usher. Poe is indeed the grandfather of horror in American Literature, He earns the title by using the best moods, tones, settings, and being able to twist characters personalities into someone a little insane. All of his stories contain an insane character, a distressed female, and the presence of supernatural, all of which are categories of Gothic literature. Poe’s use of tone is satisfactory and pleasing to the reader in the
A tremendous event in the plot is when the narrator meets Roderick’s sister Madeline for the first time. During his encounter he discovers, “The disease of Lady Madeline had long baffled the skill for her physicians” (418). Poe is keeping the tone mysterious by not only having the house and Roderick act strange, though has Roderick’s twin have an unknown, deadly disease. A disease which has everyone stumped and wondering. Later on the narrator is reading to Roderick and thinks,“It was, beyond doubt, the coincidence alone which arrested my attention; for amid the rattling of the sashes of the casements, and the ordinary commingled noises of the still increasing storm, the sound itself, had nothing, surely, which would have interested or disinterested me” (428). The storm, along with the strange sounds occurring while reading Mad Trist, combined make the most creepy, and mysterious scene in the story. Edgar Allen Poe uses setting and plot development to demonstrate the mysterious tone during the duration of The Fall of the House of Usher. Poe is indeed the grandfather of horror in American Literature, He earns the title by using the best moods, tones, settings, and being able to twist characters personalities into someone a little insane. All of his stories contain an insane character, a distressed female, and the presence of supernatural, all of which are categories of Gothic literature. Poe’s use of tone is satisfactory and pleasing to the reader in the