THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER

The Fall of the House of Usher



The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allen Poe, expert of the macabre, was one of the most prolific authors of his time. His short tales discover the dark edge of life, moving on the realms of insanity, death, terror, and fear. In the psychological thriller, The Fall of the House of Usher, Poe examines the mental derangement and dissipation of Roderick Usher. In this tale and his other short tales, setting, in specific architecture and other functional components assist considerably to air and is bodily and psychologically symbolic. (Evans 1977)

Although Usher's mental sickness is said to be hereditary, it is the House in which this infection of the brain flourishes. The article undoes on a “dull, dark, and soundless day in the after summer of the year, when the clouds dangled oppressively reduced in the heavens.” Autumn is selected because it is a time when the departs of trees start to wither away. Adding to the dark air, Poe not ever specifically mentions where the House of Usher is established geographically, conceiving a sense of indefiniteness and remoteness. The authour uses alike isolated palace backgrounds in Ligeia and The Masque of the Red Death. In detail, in all three tales, he neglects to mention when the happenings happen, farther supplementing to the feeling of uneasiness. Without a repaired time and position, the tales are omitted from the consciousness of the genuine world. Similarly, The Fall of the House of Usher and some of Poe's other surreal tales encompassing The Pit and the Pendulum and The Masque of the Red Death are set inside the confines of an surrounded locality, exception from reality. In specific, the isolated setting in the House of Usher comprises Usher's personal and psychological isolation. (Evans 1977)

The House of Usher was constructed in the gothic method, with its “sombre tapestries” carvings on the ceiling, ebony very dark levels, and “phantasmagoric armorial trophies.” A gothic feeling, a “sense of insufferable gloom” that pervades the dwelling is conceived, setting the stage for future bizarre and supernatural occurrences. As the narrator examines this “mansion of gloom” he remarks the “ghastly tree-sterns and the vacant eye-like windows.” The dwelling mimics Usher's mental condition. The windows are vacant and empty just as Usher's eyes have lost its one time “miraculous lustre” of his youth. The aligned between Usher and the dwelling can be farther analyzed. The saying “House of Usher” mentions to both the decaying personal structure as well as the “all time-honored Usher race” connecting the two as one entity, (Evans 1977)inseparable and indivisible. Poe emphasizes this symbolism by personifying the dwelling, giving it the anatomy of humans, matching its windows to eyes. The narrator outlooks the dwelling as inverted, through the reflection of the tarn, which displays that certain thing is amiss with the family and the house. The pebbles which pattern the base of the dwelling, and therefore the family, are ...