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A 3 page paper which examines the themes of evil and terror in Edgar Allen Poe’s story “The Fall of the House of Usher.” No additional sources cited.
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terror. His work seeks to uncover many psychological weaknesses and then seemingly making them even weaker through evil and terror. The dark side of existence was the specialty of Poe.
The following paper examines the themes of evil and terror in his short story "The Fall of the House of Usher." The paper discusses the two themes together as, in
the case of Poes work, they are often inseparable. (The page numbers presented refer to those in the fax sent by the student and may not reflect those of another
text). The Fall of the House of Usher From the very beginning of the story it is apparent that something unusual and almost supernatural is taking place and
this inadvertently puts the reader into a position where they are sure that elements of terror will arise. When the narrator first comes upon the house he feels how: "a
sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even
the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible" (Poe 87). The images we get from desolate and terrible are images that speak of evil and of terror. They possess
nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this manner, observing the "rank sedges," and the "black and
lurid tarn," in which can be seen the reflection of the house (Poe NA). He later states,"when I again uplifted my eyes to the house itself, from its image in
the pool, there grew a strange fancy..." (Poe 665). What we see is the narrator attempting to see everything in a rational and understandable manner, but this is essentially impossible
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