The Fall of the House of Usher

The Real Story of the "Fall of the House of Usher" "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe is a story about the narrator visiting his dear friend, Roderick Usher and Roderick's twin sister, Madeline, who are both very ill. Through the book Madeline passes away and the narrator and Roderick bury her under the house to keep her safe from doctors from stealing her body for an autopsy. Yet, Roderick keeps hearing voices and believes that they have buried her alive and she is trying to escape. At the end the ghostly figure whom they say was Madeline came into the house, scaring Roderick to death and the narrator scared for life. Yet the readers don't know that the narrator is insane, the entire story is a projection of his mind. He over exaggerates most of the story, he hallucinates, and lastly he starts understanding himself and realizing that he is going mad.…

The Fall of the House of Usher is a short story about an unnamed man, the narrator, receiving a letter from his childhood friend named Roderick Usher because he is being affected by a disease and is asking the narrator for help. The narrator travels to the House of Usher which is a family home that is now inhabited by the last two children of the Usher bloodline, Roderick and his sister Madeline. Before he enters the house to see his friend, he takes time to admire the mansion and all of its…

Poe was a very skilled nineteenth century gothic writer. In the Fall of the House of Usher Poe is obviously not yet adept at writing in Gothic style. But in one of his next works The Pit and the Pendulum Poe hits the Gothic mark quite nicely. Edgar A. Poe was indeed a Gothic writer pioneer, many of his works have lasted to present day. The stories of Fall of the House of Usher and The Pit and the Pendulum are two of Poes most striking Gothic Writings. In the fall of the House of Usher Poe…

In “The Fall of The House of Usher” Edgar Allan Poe utilizes many parallels between Roderick, Madeline, and the House of Usher. Poe uses many parallels some of these being fissures, similarities in style, and even deaths. First of all, the fissure is the widest parallel across the story, “extending from the roof of the building in front… made its way down the wall in a zigzag direction” (Poe 323). Moreover, the fissure has many explanations, one being, the main character and his sister were…

According to Lyle Kendall Jr., Madeline Usher from “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a vampire because of her appearance and effect upon the narrator, her strength at the very end of the story, and Edgar Allen Poe’s knowledge of the day’s literature. In Kendall’s article, he states, “Madeline is a vampire – a succubus – as the family physician well knows and as her physical appearance and effect upon the narrator sufficiently demonstrate” (450). According to Kendall’s article, Roderick and…

The opening scene of “The Fall of the House of Usher” immediately welcomes us to a mysterious environment and a false sense of reality. The story seeming dream-like moves to the narrator approaching the feared house and a family member ushers him inside swiftly. While there an unnamed narrator experiences many supernatural activities and sees a constant connection between the house and its owners. He finds himself questioning his senses and psychological state when he concludes that an…

The Fall of the House of Usher is a story written by the American author Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe as many of us know was a famous author because all his stories and poems were written in a sense of terror or mystery and that's what caught the attention of many people. As many of us know Edgar Allan Poe wrote his stories in a sense of terror and mystery and "The Fall of the House of Usher" was not an exception. This story also contains romanticism due to the age it was written, at first…

In the Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allen Poe, the narrator was visiting his childhood friend, Roderick Usher. This visit took place at the Usher’s estate where Roderick’s sister Madeline was ill with a mysterious disease. The whole story is about the narrator describing the gloomy Usher’s estate and the depressed condition of his friend Roderick. One of the themes in this story is about madness because Roderick Usher is overwhelmed with depression which caused him to go insane. His…

"The Fall of the House of Usher" is about the usher household which only had two surviving members which are Roderick and Madeline Usher. Roderick Usher is a man filled with fear of dying and is worried about his family name going extinct. Madeline Usher is the last female in the small household of Usher and is the sister of Roderick. Madeline has a very strange cataleptical disease which makes her stay sleep for long times which makes it hard to tell if she's alive or not. In "The Fall of the…

several themes in The Cask of Amontillado and The Fall of the House of Usher and Four Other Tales. The narrators, whether an innocent witness of death as in The Fall of the House of Usher or a twisted murderer as in The Cask of Amontillado are used by Poe to discuss the themes of death and murder within these stories and, depending on their point of view, give a different take on such a despicable act such as murder. They both relate to death, madness, and romanticism. First, fear. The Fall of…