Edgar Allan Poe Accomplishments

What if someone was going through a rough time and decided to resort to substances for help? They had no idea what else to do and took matters into their own hands. Within time they became addicted to the substance and lost their mind in the process due to traumatic life experiences. Poe grew up poor and lived a miserable childhood. His father abandoned him at two years old. In December, his mother passed away from tuberculosis. Shortly after, his father passed away from the same disease. Poe was separated from his two siblings. After he got taken in from a financially stable family, things slowly got better. Poe lived in Virginia most of his life and even attended the University of Virginia in year 1826. He had a addiction already. Poe was

Poe joined the United States Army in 1827. After he got dishonorably removed. He decided to continue his studies at West Point. He lasted a year until he was thrown out. Poe moved in with his aunt and her beautiful daughter, by the name of Virginia. Edgar Allan Poe had a romanticized feeling towards her and married her while she was only thirteen years old. Eleven years later, Virginia died of tuberculosis and Poe went downhill from there. He was under a lot of stress causing bad health and financially instability until 1849. Poe’s death seems to be a mystery like most of his stories. He left Richmond, Virginia in late September. He was found looking unhealthy in Baltimore. Poe passed away on October 7, 1849 in the hospital. Doctors have come to the conclusion that his alcoholism cause congestion resulting in his passing. He was believed to have rabies, epilepsy, and suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning. Struggling with alcoholism himself, Poe typically writes about characters with a substance abuse addiction which causes antisocial

The characters in FHU, represent Poe’s personal experiences with life, strictly the relationship with his parents. “The building gives the impression of decay, yet the masonry did not fall”(Neilson). This quote pertains to comparing Madeline and Roderick to the masonry. The narrator receives a letter inviting him to the mansion of the Usher. In the letter it says how Roderick confesses to his mental disability, or struggle. As Neilson states, the narrator is overpowered with a feeling of the house possessing the others inside of it and influences the body and soul. “The visitor is helpless to dispel this morbid fear and is in danger of subscribing to it himself”. Stated by Timmerman, the mansion has engulfed Roderick. He decides to talk the narrator into murdering his sister for the greater good. Roderick goes through depression and loses his sanity due to murdering his sister. “Geographical landscape is nothing more than an objectification of the narrator’s own mind”(Timmerman). Then, Roderick has the pupil look of a crazed male. As supported by Timmerman, the narrator seems to be “only a step away from insanity”. Roderick becomes possessed in his congested mind and rocks side to side murmuring until he hollers to discover his twin is no where near dead. Timmerman goes on saying how there is a physical and psychological bond between Madeline