Use Of Imagery In The Fall Of The House Of Usher

Imagery in “The Fall of the House of Usher”

‘Gothic literature is a style of writing that can be characterized of different elements, such as horror, gloom, fear, and death. In which it also includes romanticism, that include fear and suspense in the story telling. Author Edgar Allan Poe, is known for his mastery in the Gothic genre and makes great contribution to the fiction telling genre. In ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, uses different dimensions to give the reader an imagery to paint while reading. Poe wanted to use a gothic picture to pursue an atmosphere to communicate and as he also uses symbols to help understand atmosphere, through the theme.

Edgar Allan Poe is known as the master of imagery because it helps improve the story and bringing it alive. The whole story is about narrator, who comes to the Roderick Usher’s house and becomes a guest, especially since Roderick has been sick lately and asking our narrator for help to cure his sickness. Usher explains that him and his sister, Madeline are the last of the bloodline of the family, with a background of different arts. The story goes on to talk about how Roderick and his sister is sick with different sickness, such as catalepsy, that

In the beginning of the story, when the main characters reach the House of Usher, you will see the strong imagery being shown to show a menacing look of the house by saying, “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year…” Poe is describing the arrival on a horseback of Roderick Usher, on one dull evening. Poe also writes “I looked up on the scene before me, upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain – upon a few rank sedges and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees.” As the paragraph goes on, to describe an image, as sad or depressing, and I think this way because he could’ve used more brighter words, instead of using, such dull