Psychologicalism In The Fall Of The House Of Usher

Fear is among one of the most universal human emotions that everyone is interconnected at one point or another during their lifetime. In the gothic stories, “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “House Taken Over” written by Edgar Allan Poe and Julio Cortazar respectively. Edgar Allen Poe writes about how the character Mr. Usher, who because of his mental illness and delusions, cannot come to terms with his reality. Cortazar writes about the relationship between a brother and sister who have normal everyday lives and have strange and odd nightmare that haunts them. The

Edgar Allen Poe is a critic of short stories and poetry, and often puts his own theories into his writing. Edgar Allen Poe’s, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” falls into this category in the idea of the single effect. The short story starts with the Narrator going to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher because of a letter Roderick writes to him. The Narrator goes to the house and spends time with Usher, but all starts to go array when Roderick thinks his sister is dead and buries her. She comes out of her tomb and jumps at Usher and the House of Usher falls and Roderick dies. Poe argues that all short stories should have a single effect; a feeling the author should make the reader feel. The single effect of “The Fall of the House of Usher” is terror. Poe creates the single effect of terror through the settings, characters, and elements of the story. He does this through the setting of Usher’s room and Madeline’s tomb; through the characters of Roderick and Madeline Usher; and through the element of the Haunted Palace.

Sanity Swayed How do we diagnose insanity? Can our surroundings make us insane? In Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, The Fall of the House of Usher, a mansion causes two men to lose their minds. Roderick Usher becomes very ill and invites a friend, our narrator, to visit him before he dies.

Edgar Allan Poe is undoubtedly one of American Literature's legendary and prolific writers, and it is normal to say that his works touched on many aspects of the human psyche and personality. While he was no psychologist, he wrote about things that could evoke the reasons behind every person's character, whether flawed or not. Some would say his works are of the horror genre, succeeding in frightening his audience into trying to finish reading the book in one sitting, but making them think beyond the story and analyze it through imagery. The "Fall of the House of Usher" is one such tale that uses such frightening imagery that one can only sigh in relief that it is just a work of fiction. However, based on the biography of Poe, events

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win”(King). Stephen King is one of the most famous horror fiction writers in history, with such classic works as The Shining and It on his resume. However, King would be nothing if it weren’t for the tortured, Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849). Poe’s works seem to project the monsters and ghosts which lived inside him, through his awful, short life. Poe writings are woven tightly with language holding hidden meanings and psychological anguish. Argumentary the most famous work of Poe is The Fall of the House of Usher(The House of Usher), as the short story incorporates every trope of modern horror, important among these is the setting. A nameless narrator receives a letter from his boyhood friend, Roderick Usher, asking the narrator to visit. The narrator goes, and finds his friend in bad mental condition with his sister’s health failing. When his sister dies, they bury her in the house. After this act, the boyhood friends are in more trouble than when they began. In The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe hidden aspects are revealed through the setting.

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

In “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Edgar Allan Poe uses Madeline as a symbol for the theme of madness. Madeline has a significant and maddening impact on both Roderick Usher and the narrator. It cannot be denied that both Usher and the narrator are eerily disturbed by her existence, yet in the end, Usher accepts his madness while the narrator runs away from the House of Usher. Poe uses the contrast of how Usher and the narrator are affected by Madeline and madness to convey the theme that madness presents itself as a duality that can either be accepted or averted by the person that madness is attempting to overtake.

The second message of Poe 's "The Fall of the House of Usher" is that moral disintegration should necessarily lead to destruction as a sort of mundane punishment. Usher blames himself for burying his sister before death so he expects punishment. One conclusion to be drawn from the final scene is that Roderick dies of fear. Madeline appears in her coffin and rushes upon him and he falls to the floor a corpse. Symbolically Madeline is just a physical embodiment of Roderick’s fears and punishment.

One of the most primitive human emotions is fear. In “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Poe plays with this emotion by leaving the audience thinking with many unanswered questions. One of the main facts he left out was that The Ushers are not an ordinary family. The Ushers were vampires. Both Roderick and Madeline were suffering the effects of vampirism. Only one thing explains all of these phenomena and that is vampirism.

Whatever affection seems to exist between Roderick and “his tenderly beloved sister” is not in any shape, way, or form healthy. They both are extremely sensitive, and because they are twins, they have “A striking similitude” and “sympathies of a scarcely intelligible nature.” It is as though

It is safe to say that terror often causes negative reactions. When someone is scared, their mind can take over and will impair one's ability to reason. This is shown in two stories, “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allen Poe and “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortazar. Imagination takes over in “The Fall of the House of Usher” when Roderick Usher realizes he buried his sister alive. The mind also takes over in “House Taken Over,” when two siblings deal with a mysterious entity. Imagination overcomes reason when characters become anxious or are isolated from society.

One of Roderick's fears was death. He was from a well-known and honored family, and he and his sister were the last of the long line of Usher descendants. His sister, Madeline, had been fighting a severe and long-continued illness for quite some time, which had added to much of Roderick's gloom. " Her decease, would leave him the last of the ancient race of the Ushers." Roderick seemed not only to fear the death of his sister and ultimately of himself, but also the uncertainty of the future. "I dread the events of the future, not only in themselves, but in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial incident, which may operate upon this intolerable agitation of soul."

One of the most primitive human emotions is fear. In “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Poe left many things unanswered. One of the main things he left out was that The Ushers aren't your ordinary family. They were vampires! Both Roderick and Madeline were suffering the effects of vampirism. “From that chamber and from that mansion, I fled aghast”. The narrator experiences all of the frightening phenomenon of the Usher House as he ‘fled aghast” or ran away while showing signs of terror. All of these phenomenon can only be explained by one thing and that is vampirism.

From past experience, terror is often a characteristic one associates with in eerie or frightening situations. In The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe portrays an uncomfortable environment between our three main characters. He presents the history of a dying direct line of descent within the Usher family and the many difficulties that come with having this type of family tree. This story encompasses illness, drama, and disturbance, which add to the mood/theme of the novel. Poe uses the setting, characters, and the element, The Haunted Palace, in order to create the single effect of terror in The Fall of the House of Usher.

A recurring social occurrence is psychosis, poor mental health, as the result of isolation. Psychosis is a mental condition in which a person exhibits anxiety, depression, personifying physical elements, hearing voices, and having other psychological trauma. In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, The Fall of The House of Usher, the main characters suffer from a state of psychosis brought about by their seclusion in a morbid mansion. The narrator goes to visit his friend, Roderick Usher, and discovers that Roderick’s lack of interaction and dreary surrounding has brought him to some ill psychological condition. Poe uses setting, symbolism, and imagery to