Symbolism In The Fall Of The House Of Usher

There are many theories and interpretations of Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher.” But what if the story was to be taken literal? Many know Poe for his dark and morbid past, just think about how he could have been wanting to take this story literally instead of through symbolism. When reading, one may assume that everything symbolizes something, instead let us take a look at this story through the perspective of this piece of work the be just another ghost story.
The story begins with the narrator visiting his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, who has come down with a severe mental illness. Roderick is acting up in a very mourning and depressing way so the narrator tries to get Mr. Usher's mind off of death. Roderick Usher and his sister were the last of the Usher bloodline, although his sister soon dies. Well, the reader assumes she is dead and so the two men intomb her. There is a
To try and relate this story in a more literal form is challenging. If someone was placed in this exact situation and that person lived to tell the story, such as the narrator, no one is going to believe such a crazy story. What if things like this happen every day and those who are labeled crazy truly are not? Instead they could have encountered something on more of a paranormal level, instead of them being mentally unstable. The human mind is controlled by society to learn what is and is not excepted. Children are told that ghost, witches, and many more so called monsters are all fictional. The human mind does not know that, because the human mind develops whatever is wanted to be believed in. In a way this could be compared to the government, meaning that humans only know what they want to know. Poe could have truly experienced some weird and bizarre occurrences, not speaking about what the reader can infer/compare in