Compare And Contrast The Fall Of The House Of Usher

“Fear is not real. It is the product of thoughts you create. Danger is very real, but fear is only a choice.” Fear is not something that is always real, such as when Usher was scared but there was nothing to fear yet, but the danger at the end of the story, especially for Ushers friend, was something to fear for. In the Gothic Literature short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, the setting is somber and creates an illusion of darkness. On the other hand, “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortazar, portrays the idea of magical realism in, which setting is more realistic and less gloomy. Although Gothic Literature and Magical Realism are similar, there are also many differences, especially in their settings.

Authors often use literary techniques to convey a particular effect. The effect is often a tone, a message, a sense of danger, a feeling, etc. This allows the reader to deeper understand the text. In the book Ender's Game, the author Orson scott Card, uses foreshadow, comparison, and inner dialogue to convey a tone of suspense.

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” and Julio Cortazar’s “House Taken Over” shows the traits of two genres, gothic literature and magical realism. Even though both of these literary works were made in different time periods they show how the effects of fear and loneliness can affect someone. The setting of House Taken Over and House of Usher is similar as they both take place in a house and their interior is bleak, but the two settings are different as one house is surrounded by a decaying forest and the other house is in a neighborhood.

The two main components of The Fall of the House of Usher are the narrator coming to visit Usher and Usher’s grief and illness. Both plot points are connected by the concept of friendship.

Writers can use many tricks to make a story seem more interesting to the reader. From the words they pick to the setting to the time of the day... the possibilities are endless. In the story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe, the use of light and darkness, the description of the mans eye and the time frame make the story more scary than anything else. Poe also uses suspense at the end to make the readers heart beat faster.

As Poe is known to do he builds up the suspense all the way to the horrifying ending. It starts off pleasant enough. An unnamed narrator is called to the manor of his childhood friend, Roderick. The narrator is actually quite excited to go. He remembers the place from his boyhood as being a wondrous place. When he arrives, the house is not at all how he remembers it. In fact, he describes a small fissure running through The House of Usher. This small fissure is actually a representative of a disruption in the unity of the family, more specifically, between Madeline and her brother. Madeline is Roderick’s brother and she ends up dying due to disease. It is also revealed that the two were twins and share a sort of bond. With one of them dying, they wouldn’t be unified anymore, causing a fissure that destroys The House of Usher. This is actually foreshadowed by Roderick himself when he says, "…the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR." (Poe 10) The horrifying conclusion to this story happens when Roderick goes mad, claiming to hear his sister from inside her coffin and that they entombed her alive. What’s even crazier, is that a bloody Madeline is actually standing outside the door and tackles her brother where they both die. This causes the narrator to run away as he watches the house crack in

The authors want to paint a picture in your mind of what is happening in the book. It helps you understand if the characters are scared, sad, or happy. If you don’t have a mood for the story, you will never understand what the characters feel about their surroundings. “Rainsford sprang up and moved quickly to the rail, mystified. He strained his eyes in the direction from which the reports had come.

In the story “ The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, has an American romanticism with its characters. Edgar Allan Poe is considered a Dark Romanticism because of the way he writes his poems and short stories centered around the concept of evil human nature, darkness, and death. Roderick and Madeline Usher were said to be related during the middle of the story; they were twins. It explained how they were sick, Roderick had a mental disorder and Madeline was physically sick. As the narrator enters the desolate house, he finds both Roderick and his sister in a severe state of depression and they both appear sick like. The narrator tries to make Roderick feel better, but Roderick wouldn’t budge. Roderick thinks that the house is making him sick and making him to appear crazy.

In “The Alchemist” the writer uses imagery and informal diction as their writing style. They give lots of details when they describe either a person in the story, the directions that the boy was given, his scenery, or even his dreams. It gives you a lot of stuff that someone could put together

Authors are good at making things pretty suspenseful. Authors create suspense by coming up with creepy twisted stories or writing about real ones. A suspenseful story is made with disturbing background stories that end up having a major twist at the end. Like in the story, “The Pedestrian,” by Bradbury, where at the end of the story the car said it was taking him to a Psychiatric Centre for Research on Regressive Tendencies. Then the main character Leonard Mead said, “That’s my house.”

In order for a photograph to be fully developed and understood by the eye, there must be an element of contrast that can provide the depth and shading necessary for the objects in the photo to seem almost life like. The correct amount of contrast can add dimension, make the photo engaging, and create dramatic effects that reveal the tone of an image. Authors can use a similar technique in their writing to develop a storyline. Using contrast to create a depth of field to the story, adding tones to the characters, and backdrop settings that bring dramatic effect to the point the author wants to bring to focus. Adding contrast to the imagery through the use of wording can reveal a deeper dimension that prevents it from being flat thus keeping

After evaluating the work of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, he utilizes with imagery to build up the feeling of terror. First of all, the passage is about an ill man, Roderick Usher, who invites his old friend of his to come meet him. In this passage both him and his sister, Madeline Usher, are the last remaining of the Usher race and is diagnosed with an unnatural illness. The narrator begins to feel terror with the supernatural things going on in the house of Usher and the illness of the Ushers. Although the narrator feels the sense of terror from the moment he entered the house, through the use of imagery, Poe is able to bring emotion to the reader. Throughout the passage, the author continues to build up the sense of terror by asserting the image and setting of both the passage and the atmosphere. For instance, he starts the passage by stating “a dull, dark, and a soundless day...clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens” (Poe 194). In relation to the previous quote, the quote illustrates the image of the atmosphere and the setting of the story. In particular, because Poe expresses the sense of terror by describing the atmosphere as dark, quiet, and gloomy, the reader can get an image of the surroundings and get the feeling of the darkness and horror. In addition, according to Poe, during the first glimpse of the house of Usher, the narrator describes it as gloomy and unpleasant. In particular, Poe states “the shades of the evening drew on… a sense of insufferable gloom” (Poe 194). Additionally, the description of the house adds on to the sense of terror that Poe established in the beginning of the story. Based on the past two quotes stated by the author, the reader can begin to picture a dark and dull day with a gloomy house adding on to the darkness. Lastly, in regards to Edgar Allan Poe, the house of Usher is

By specific details that tells the story, the twist to a story and the victims that have effected their lives forever. By specific details that tells the story. For example, how Poe gave details on how the narrator kill the old man. It captures what suspense means. That killing someone for a simple thing like in the article “The Anatomy of Self - Hatred: Learning to love our loathed “selves.”

literary devices such as point of view and symbolism to give it a more dramatic effect and add to the madness the narrator portrays.

By using very intricate and ornate words to try and bring his readers into the story and