Edgar Allen Poe
According to Dictionary.com, death is defined as the termination or extinction of something. Edgar Allen Poe used this definition all throughout his story, “The Fall of the House of Usher”. After reading the story several times to try to pick up on any thoughts or emotions Poe intended the reader to grasp, I found that unlike most stories, E. A. Poe had no idea of a moral or an idea of reason behind the story of the House of Usher. Under my impression, he wrote this story to scare the living shit out of people. So…why and how does Edgar Allen Poe scare people even to this day with “The Fall of the House of Usher”? Edgar Allen Poe didn’t have the best of lives growing up in Boston at the turn of the 19th century. Death has incorporated somehow into his life from the age of less than a year when his father died until his own death in 1849. Edgar Allen Poe is classified as a writer in the Romantic Period. Writers in this period focused on life, emotions, and the existence of the human race. Even with Poe being in the Romantic Period, “The Fall of the House of Usher” is classified as a Gothic piece. With this eerie setting, Edgar Allen Poe’s stories get even scarier when he goes into the greatest of detail on everything; (w
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