THE FEAR IN THE HOUSE OF USHER
In the story “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allen Poe, setting is used to portray many different things. Poe uses setting to suggest ideas, effects, and images. It creates a mood and foreshadows future events. Poe communicates facts about the characters through symbols throughout the setting. In the story the narrator is going to the House of Usher to comfort his friend, Roderick Usher who has fallen into a mental depression. These negative influences ultimately lead to death in the end. The story revolves around the effects of fear and how the denial of our fears can lead to madness. # The narrator is immediately skittish about the house As he approaches the house, “with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.”(Poe 21) The entire opening scene was gloomy as if he’d stepped into blackness. He describes the house as having “vacant eye-like windows upon a few rank sedges and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees with an utterdepression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium” (Poe
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Approximate Word count = 1120
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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