The Fall Of The House Of Usher Analysis

“The Fall of the House of Usher,” is a short story by Edgar Allen Poe that contains horror elements and takes place in the 1800s. The story begins when an unnamed narrator arrive at a house. The house belongs to his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, who has a mental disorder. Similarity, Madeline Usher, Roderick twin sister, has a physical illness. Even though Madeline Usher died, the unnamed narrator never realize how the house and the twins are connected together. In Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” symbolism, imagery, and allusion are used to show how hereditary can cause dreadful madness and isolation. Symbolisms are used to show the relationship between the house and Roderick Usher.
After the death of his beloved twin sister, he had a “mad hilarity in his eyes” (Poe 1194). Taking care of the house and the loss of his sister made him go senseless. He felt isolated that he could not be sane and “utterly destroy itself” (Able 381). Without his sister, he was the only heir of the
“And laugh-but smile no more” (Poe 1191), show us that being an heir will make unhappy lives. The palace is similar to “the features and vitality of both Usher and his house” (Abel 381). Just like the poem, Usher went mad when he is isolated and had to inherit the house. Similarity, the king in the poem had inherit the palace yet, he never smiled. Poe also added a story to make a dark atmosphere. As the narrator read the story to Roderick, “…I became aware of distinct, hollow, metallic, and dangerous, yet apparently muffled reverberation” (Poe 1196). The narrator knew something bad would happen but he ignored it. But, as the narrator reads on, “…sounds continues more noticeably, Roderick suddenly informs the narrator that he has been listening to noises…” (Carpenter). The sounds were Madeline coming out of her coffin and going toward their