The Fall of the House of Usher
One of the central themes underlying the short story, The Fall of the House of Usher, is that of the nature of the house. The way it is described and the way it is so mysterious. Another central theme about this story is the nature of the people that live in the house. They are portrayed very much in the same manner throughout the story. Thus, they have several similarities with each other. All of which are of a bad feeling, showing how bad things are for the people and the house. These similarities are very well laid out in the story and are, I believe, meant to be something to be considered when reading it. At the beginning of the story there is a very negative feeling being attached to the appearance of the house. He uses a couple of things to try and make you feel negatively about this place. He used words and phrases such as: "insufferable gloom," "vacant," "bl
Poe is trying to set the mood of the story by throwing out all of these negative things about the structure of the house and how it is decaying and falling apart. ack and lurid," and the "rank sedges" were mentioned too. He said he had an illness that was a "morbid acuteness of the senses. Which, after reading the descriptions about it, is very understandable. Suggesting that the house has many problems, all problems that could possibly lead to the destruction of a house. Her illness is so bad that she cannot respond to any outside stimuli. Some accounts even take it as having a kind of gothic feeling to it. He uses the word tortured when he is describing his eyesight and says that even the slightest sound is almost unbearable. Then Madeline is introduced, and the first thing stated about her is that she has an unknown illness. The way both of the characters were introduced, with their appearance and the descriptions of all of the illnesses that they have, gave them a very negative connotation. He speaks of how the house has a "wild inconsistency" and how each individual stone is starting to decay and fall apart. All these things put together and a few others help to connect the house to Roderick and Lady Madeline. Then Roderick tells him the reason for his appearance, why he looks so bad. These are obviously there to give a sort of a bad connotation, or bad karma, to the house. He is doing the same by telling about Roderick and Madeline and how they are sick and virtually doing the same as the house is, rotting away and slowly coming apart.
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