stories fall under the category of horror or mystery. In the stories The Fall of the House of Usher and Where is Here there are certain elements that make it a gothic setting. Those elements are, the description, mood created, and importance of the specific setting. In both stories the authors give a certain description about the homes and environment in which the events of the story will run its course. In The Fall of the House of Usher, Poe describes the Usher house as a "mere house, and the
descriptions of the house and family conveys the intertwined fate of both that leads the reader to the conclusion, the house and the Ushers are one. Poe uses the phrase "House of Usher" to refer to both the decaying physical structure and the last of the Usher family. I. Plot Summary A. The Fall of the House of Usher discovers the feeling I get when I go inside a Haunted House, fear, darkness, terror, insanity, and mysterious. B. The narrator compares the small crack in the house and the small cracks
Setting Makes the Story Scarier (The discussion of the importance of setting in “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe) Ever since children are young, the importance of setting is drilled into their heads. Which means that the state must find it important enough that we start learning it as soon as we are able to understand the stories being read. Therefore, it is clear that setting is always of the essence, but is it more important within different genres? In a sweet little poem about
are visible in Poe’s gothic fiction is death.” The author describes how Poe uses creepy settings and circumstances in many of his works to carry out this theme. In his work “ The Fall of the House of Usher," Poe used the theme of death and horror to create a climax for the reader. The author uses details from the story to support his argument that death is an evident theme in Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher.” This source would be helpful to my research because it specifies a certain work of Edgar