The House Of Usher Analysis Essay

Fear comes when a person begins to fall. In the story The House Of Usher. Usher once lived a brilliant wealthy past. In Usher’s poem he writes” In the greenest of our valley’s, By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace- Radiant palace- reared its head.” Meaning what was once a rich and beautiful place is now on the decline. Another quote to support my text is also in the poem, that states “In voices of surpassing beauty, The wit and wisdom of their king. But evil things in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch’s high estate; And, round about his home, the glory that blushed and bloomed is but a dim remembered story of the old time entombed.” This is saying that he wants people to remember his past but nobody did his palace is all but a wasteland with only Usher and his sister Abigail left. My last textual evidence is a form of symbolism when Abigail falls on Usher and kills …show more content…
“ Her decease he said with a bitterness which I can never forget, ( would leave him, the hopeless and the frail) The last of the ancient race of the ushers” Again dreading on what she once was to what she is now she use to be beautiful but now is sick and not the prettiest thing in the world. Another quote that supports my theme is “ I shall perish I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise shall I be lost I dread the events of the future.” ( page So he is scared of the future which supports my first theme but also dreads the future because he is on the fall and Usher knows that things can only get worse. Then the narrator also talks about the building itself and how it has faded over the years/ ages of what use to be beautiful to what is now dark and gloomy. “ Its principal feature seemed to be that of an excessive antiquity. The discolaration of ages had been great.” What was once beautiful is now dark and ugly. This picture even gets to the narrator a little bit, but it really effect’s