ls to the floor. This symbolism is also played in the "real world". The exact momment where the shield falls to the floor, a knock is heard on the chambers door. Roderick goes to answer it and uppon opening the door, Madeline is seen, blood all over her, lunging towards him. We can see then why he says she was buried alive. Ones capacity to express emotion, however bad it may be, is never truly dead, only forever sick."The Fall of the House of Usher". A good story by itself. An even better story if analysed correctly. The story of a man loosing his mind has rarely been presented so imaginatively. But this was only from one point of view. What other meanings can be pulled from this story? Perhaps it is the inner mind of a schitzophrenic, or even a legend told to scare little boys from hurting there sisters. They may just come back! Either way, This work is still worth reading. This paper is the property of NetEssays.Net Copyright 1999-2002Edgar Allen Poe was an American writer that lived and wrote in the 19th century. Poe's writings are known for their macabre subject matter. The dark imagery in his "The Fall of the House of Usher" gives the reader an intense environment of pure terror to reside in while he is in the story, as well as giving him a view into the mind of Poe himself. In this story, Poe uses the life-like characteristics of an otherwise decaying house and other inanimate objects as a device for giving the house a very supernatural atmosphere. (Baym)The first five paragraphs of the story present the arrival of the narrator and describe the House of Usher and its bleak surroundings. The narrator, who is a childhood companion of Roderick Usher's, arrives to find an old mansion with "the remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the gastly tree-stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows. (Poe 350)" His first view of the house comes in a large pool of tarn, or swampy, dead matter, surrounding the house. The ...
