House Of Usher Change

It is a common belief that when a person falls off a cliff, often times they die before they even reach the ground. The driving reasoning behind this idea is the fact that humans naturally fear change. The idea is that someone who falls off a cliff becomes so scared of the changes that will happen to their body when they hit the ground, that the thought alone overloads their body and kills them. The belief may or may not be scientifically sound, however the root that it stems from is a fact that cannot be denied: humans fear change. In literature, many authors use this idea of change in different aspects of their writing because they know that it will cause anxiety in their readers. The list of things that authors have transformed in their stories to

The transformation of a character’s emotional or physical state plays a role in fear by making readers wonder how the character’s course of action will be changed by these shifts. In “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, Roderick Usher, a childhood friend of the main character, undergoes a series of changes that grips readers in a mixture of suspense and anxiety that allows Poe to create a “scary” mood in the story. One of these changes happens in the initial setup of the story, when the main character goes to see Usher, per his request, for the first time since they were children. When the main character sees how much Usher has changed since his childhood, he describes, “I gazed upon him with a feeling of half pity, half of awe. Surely, man had never before been so terribly altered, in so brief a period, as had Roderick Usher! It was with difficulty that I could bring myself to admit that identity of the wan being before me with the companion of my early boyhood.” (Poe 17) The transformation of