A Deeper Meaning
Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. Shortly after his birth, his father deserted him and his mother passed away soon after that. He grew up to be a troubled young man. He fell in love with his beloved wife, and shortly after that she died. He passed away alone and unhappy. Poe's life was almost as dark and depressing as the fiction he produced. In "The Fall of the House of Usher," he uses a great deal of symbolism to represent how the Usher family is. We, as readers, see how deep the meaning of the story associates with how twisted Poe's mind was. To enhance the meaning, he uses a poem, a painting, and the novel Mad Trist, to let the reader know how the Ushers are characterized as a spooky and twisted family. The poem "The Haunted Palace" made a connection between the house and the members of the Usher family. The house started out as royalty and was a beautiful, normal, neatly-composed home . That was how the Usher family once was. In the first three stanzas of the poem, it showed how the family used to be happy. As time went by, the house deteriorated along with the emotions of the people living in the house. The incest of the Usher's had caught up with them and had made them
ause of the angry force she put upon her brother once she had released herself from the vault. Ethelred brought upon the same actions towards the antagonist, the dragon. The shield symbolized the problems finally being over after the life-long struggle. At the end of the tale, the shield that Ethelred uses to protect himself from the dragon, fell onto the Another symbolic meaning in the story was the antique volume of The Mad Trist. When the storm came and the house was surrounded in fright, the narrator reads Roderick this novel to calm him down. On the contrary, Roderick got more paranoid and faint-hearted than ever. The characters and events in the story symbolized Roderick and Madeline. When the character read something, it transpired into reality in the Usher house. For example, when the dragon shrieked in the story, Roderick heard Madeline coming out of the massive, metal door. The creature was in alliance to the insanity of the Ushers and the incestuous action that had taken place in the house hold. The hermit in the volume tied along with Roderick. The relationship between the two were that the way the hermit was described in the story was that he never left his house similar to Roderic
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Approximate Word count = 819
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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