Examples Of Foreshadowing In The Fall Of The House Of Usher

The Poisoned Palace Can a house drive a person insane? In Fall of the House of Usher that is exactly what happened. Edgar Allan Poe wrote like this because he had a very difficult life full of death. When Poe was just a baby his father ran away, leaving Poe and his mother. Just a few years later Poe’s mother died of tuberculosis leaving him an orphan to be adopted by the Allan family. When Poe was 15, his best friend’s mother and influence for writing, Jane Stannard, died of brain cancer. After, Mrs. Allan caught tuberculosis, and while she was sick Mr. Allan had many affairs in the same house. This angered Poe and he began to strongly dislike Mr. Allan. Years later Mrs. Allan died of tuberculosis and Poe had to be adopted by his aunt. While living with his aunt he fell in love with her daughter Virginia Clemm. Virginia later caught tuberculosis and died. These are the deaths that drove Edgar Allan Poe’s writing style. Explaining events of foreshadowing, symbols and explaining a theme will help in understanding The Fall of
The line in The Haunted Palace “evil things, in robes of sorrow, assailed the monarch’s high estate” (Poe 201) foreshadows Usher and his house dying. Usher is the monarch in the poem and his house is the high estate. The evil things are attacking the estate, which foreshadows Roderick Usher’s insanity killing him. Another example of foreshadowing is “...a barely perceptible fissure, which, extending from the roof of the building in front made its way down the wall...” (Poe 197). This fissure foreshadows how the house will fall and symbolises Usher’s insanity. The tiny crack in the beginning foreshadows that the house is going fall apart because of Usher’s insanity. The crack is small and insignificant in the beginning because Roderick and Madeline are still alive. When they die the crack that wasn’t important now widens to a fissure and swallows the