The Fall Of The House Of Usher Analysis

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Fear is an emotion created by your subconscious when you are faced with the unknown. When faced with something that scares you, or makes you worried you often will just run but some will stay and fight. Either way, your fear is taking control of you, throwing reasoning out of the window. Making desitions without thinking through what will happen next. When you have a moment of uncertainty in your life our bodies do what they were meant to do, we react with fight or flight mode. We were born with the emotion of fear to keep us safe and out of danger but when is it a reality that we are scared of and when is it just our imagination taking over? The point in which you don't know what is real and what is fake. In this paper, we will be talking …show more content…

When the Author gets to the house the view of the house shakes him to his core with fear. The author stayed though because his fear was stronger than his reasoning at this point in time. He knew that his friend Usher needed him and so in that creepy dark place was where he would stay for weeks. One night after Usher's sister had pasted the author started to feel his fear becoming stronger he was having a hard time sleep when the door flew open. There stood his sick friend Usher. After many minutes he got Usher in a chair and was reading him a story when he started hearing Usher talk but all it was, mumbles to himself. Together the two of them went and opened the door and there stood Usher's sister covered from head to toe in blood and dirt she attacked her brother and they both fell to the floor dead. Think to yourself at this moment what would I do? “ From the chamber, and from the mansion, I fled aghast (The Fall of the House of Usher).” In this moment the author decides to flee because fear got the better of him he didn't stop to see if Usher and his sister was okay or not he fled he let fear get the better of him. Sometimes fear causes people to do crazy things as well because they are trying to anticipate the

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