A Haunting Past

Chad Brown
Martin
English 351-1
16 January
A Haunting Past
Edgar Allan Poe Literary Analysis
Edgar Allan Poe is a very dark, gloomy writer from the early 1800s. He was innate(p) in
Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809. He died at the age of cardinal on October 7, 1849 in
Baltimore, Maryland. Part of the reason he had much(prenominal) a gothic writing style is that he was enamored
by many tragedies in his lifetime. He was abandoned by his father, his mother then later his wife
Virginia both died Tuberculosis, and he was also a depressed alcoholic. His literary works
constitute of unyielding, gothic natured tales such as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Murders in the Rue
Morgue, The correspond and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Cask of
Amontillado.
On of the most storied literary works that Poe ever wrote was The Fall of the House of
Usher. The content of the crumbling, haunted castle is a key feature of the haunting tale. The
story begins when the storyteller goes to Roderick Ushers syndicate. Upon arrival at the entrance hall
the fabricator notices a crack along the structure of the house. The quip that develops in its side
is symbolic of the decay of the Usher family and the house dies along with the two Usher
siblings.



Roderick is acting very unlike and
the narrator learns of Madeline Ushers death. The ghost of Madeline returns to haunt the
mansion and Roderick Usher. The horror story used scary details of the creepy Usher
mansion which make the reader feel as though they are there. The Fall of the House of Usher
is a haunting tale of gothic nature.

The story has a potpourri of evil behind it which Roderick is obviously hiding from the
narrator. Some of the principal(prenominal) things that happen in the story consist of when Roderick Usher
contacts the narrator in the beginning requesting his presence at his mansion because he is very
sick and is on the verge of death. Upon arrival the narrator notices that Roderick is acting kind
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