The Fall of the House of Usher Analysis

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English

 

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Eugene B

 

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November 19, 2011

 

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Intelligent and clever foreshadowing help to establish this story as one of Poe's classics. In Edgar Allan Poe's gothic horror story, "The Fall of the House of Usher," brilliant imagery, captivating themes, and clever foreshadowing make up the most famous of Poe's works. Visual and aural imagery are key elements in "The Fall of the House of Usher" and give the reader a remarkable experience...
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Gothic imagery is especially key in the story and helps set the tone for the entire story. In the first line the unnamed narrator describes the day as dull, dark, and soundless and then states at first sight of the House of Usher that, "A sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit" (Poe 231). Next, he gives a dismal description of the house and landscape, "I looked upon the scene before me?upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain?upon the bleak walls?upon the vacant eye-like windows?upon a few rank sedges?and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees?with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of a reveller upon opium" (Poe 231)...
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