How Does Fear Occur In The Fall Of The House Of Usher

FEAR What is fear? Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. How does fear occur? Fear can occur in many ways, in this section we focus on transformation. Transformation can occur in all thing like: people, objects, nature. In many ways transformation plays many role in stories meant to scare us. In most stories transformation must exist in order to create fear. In scary stories meant to scare we people or characters transform. In the “fall of the house of Usher” Rodrick Usher gets really badly sick, he began to look as if he were dead while he sat in his chair, and he quit moving. The same kind of thing happened to his sister, but his sister dead and came back as a zombie. The narrator started to sick and feel uneasy. He started to believe the same thing was happening to him as it did to Rodrick and his sister Madeline. The narrator in the “Raven” started to become crazy. Transformation can also happen to objects.

That give-and-take, the dialectic between the beautiful and the horrifying, between amazement and dread, informs not just "The Fall of the House of Usher" but Poe's work in general. There is indeed a poetic quality to his writing, whether it be the use of the "Haunted Palace" as a metaphor for the mind--invaded by "evil things, in robes of sorrow"--or the description of the House of Usher as if it were a human face, with its "vacant eye-like windows." The Narrator describes, early in the story, "an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime." The infection the narrator increasingly felt becomes personified in the ultimate terrifying destruction of the