The Fall Of The House Of Usher Analysis
The Fall of the House of Usher is based on the relationship between the mental and the physical. The mental aspect deals with the affect caused by the physical surroundings. As the reader follows the story, this relationship becomes more concrete. The author uses different approaches to show the reader the relationship between the two and how it affects Usher. The use of imagery and other literary tools helps to give a clear picture, in the reader's head, of the mansion physical presence and Usher's mental state.
The narrator and Usher follow the same train of thought after reading the "The Haunted Palace". As Usher starts to give his opinion on the subject, it becomes clear that his mental state is declining. This is evident when …show more content…
As the narrator gets a glimpse of the House of Usher, he begins to describe the immediate feelings that arise in him. "I know not how it was-but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me-upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain-upon the bleak walls-upon the vacant eye-like windows-upon a few rank sedges-and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees-with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveler upon opium-the bitter lapse into everyday life-the hideous dropping off of the veil." Right away the reader gets an understanding of the mood and settings around. The condition of the mansion brings out these feelings and impresses them upon all who enter. The narrator himself experiences wide range of feelings throughout his stay at the mansion. The mansion and Usher's mental state begin to wear on the narrator. He finds himself feeling that Usher's superstitions are creeping upon him and that Usher's condition is terrifying to
The narrator and Usher follow the same train of thought after reading the "The Haunted Palace". As Usher starts to give his opinion on the subject, it becomes clear that his mental state is declining. This is evident when …show more content…
As the narrator gets a glimpse of the House of Usher, he begins to describe the immediate feelings that arise in him. "I know not how it was-but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me-upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain-upon the bleak walls-upon the vacant eye-like windows-upon a few rank sedges-and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees-with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveler upon opium-the bitter lapse into everyday life-the hideous dropping off of the veil." Right away the reader gets an understanding of the mood and settings around. The condition of the mansion brings out these feelings and impresses them upon all who enter. The narrator himself experiences wide range of feelings throughout his stay at the mansion. The mansion and Usher's mental state begin to wear on the narrator. He finds himself feeling that Usher's superstitions are creeping upon him and that Usher's condition is terrifying to