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“The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe



                                                                     



The Fall of the House of Usher is acclaimed as one of Edgar Allan Poe’s greatest works. Poe uses Symbolism and analogies in both characters and setting to tell this Gothic tale of death and downfall. He often drew upon memory for the setting of his stories. He combines atmosphere and analogy to form the setting which provokes to the reader a sense of insufferable gloom.

Too much of the horror has been attributed to its setting. But the setting does have a double impotence, descriptive and symbolic. Poe introduces plain life in its most rudimentary form, underscoring the miasmic elements in the tale. The story connects plot and setting so that they seem one. From the first sentence to the last, the mood of desolation and impending doom never leaves. Poe used the principal of analogy very effectively in House of Usher. Finding an identical pattern in each the house and the family, he makes the events in the book being read correspond to those going on in the house. The entire opening scene is steeped in blackness and melancholy.(Neilson, 197, Buranelli, 62) Another of Poe’s writing techniques is anima. Anima is giving a character quality of having an animal spirit. Madeline Usher is the anima figure in the story Poe’s use of symbolism in his gothic stories is a guiding thread to his literary art. That he is not persistently a symbolist is one of his strengths, for it means that he only turns to symbolism when it has a distinct role to play.

Too much of the horror has been attributed to its setting. But the setting does have a double impotence, descriptive and symbolic. Poe introduces plain life in its most rudimentary form, underscoring the miasmic elements in the tale. The story connects plot and setting so that they seem one. From the first sentence to the last, the mood of desolation and impending doom never leaves. Poe used the principal of analogy very effectively in House of Usher. Finding an identical pattern in each the house and the family, he makes the events in the book being read correspond to those going on in the house. The entire opening scene is steeped in blackness and melancholy.(Neilson, 197, Buranelli, 62) Another of Poe’s writing techniques is anima. Anima is giving a character quality of having an animal spirit. Madeline Usher is the anima figure in the story Poe’s use of symbolism in his gothic stories is a guiding thread to his literary art. That he is not persistently a symbolist is one of his strengths, for it means that he only turns to symbolism when it has a distinct role to play

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