In the short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, he uses dark, fearful, and unwelcoming words to define the outside and inside of the Usher household. Also, the main characters are Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, and the narrator whose name is not mentioned. The main character and owner of the house, Roderick User is suffering from an emotional illness. For this reason, when Roderick is foreshadowing his death, he states, "…the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR." (pg 18) Roderick's fear could be Madeline, but he never directly tells the readers. At the end, Madeline rushes upon him and he falls to the floor a corpse, too terrified to go on living. Roderick User dies of fear. Therefore, the house of Usher sets a dark tone throughout the story. The narrator describes it as the “mansion of gloom” (14). The narrator observes that the house seems to have absorbed an evil and diseased atmosphere from the “decaying trees” (15) and murky ponds around it. Roderick is paranoid because he thinks his sister was buried alive. The dark, terrifying house, does not help Rodericks emotional illness and the eerie environment creates imagination over
In the short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, he uses dark, fearful, and unwelcoming words to define the outside and inside of the Usher household. Also, the main characters are Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, and the narrator whose name is not mentioned. The main character and owner of the house, Roderick User is suffering from an emotional illness. For this reason, when Roderick is foreshadowing his death, he states, "…the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR." (pg 18) Roderick's fear could be Madeline, but he never directly tells the readers. At the end, Madeline rushes upon him and he falls to the floor a corpse, too terrified to go on living. Roderick User dies of fear. Therefore, the house of Usher sets a dark tone throughout the story. The narrator describes it as the “mansion of gloom” (14). The narrator observes that the house seems to have absorbed an evil and diseased atmosphere from the “decaying trees” (15) and murky ponds around it. Roderick is paranoid because he thinks his sister was buried alive. The dark, terrifying house, does not help Rodericks emotional illness and the eerie environment creates imagination over