The story begins with the setting being described. When the story is narrated, we start to perceive the gloomy mood, and the mystery of the story. In this essay, I will talk more in detail about how and why the story is an example of Romanticism. What makes it be in the category of Romanticism? The story has many small facts and details that readers notice, and that make the story different. To begin, I would like to say that the first example of the story being of Romanticism is that there is a revival of Gothic art.
What do I mean with revival of Gothic Art? With Gothic Art or Gothic Style, I mean mystery, death, and a mood sort of dark. The story contains those exactly, there is mystery since the narrator enters the house, Madeline "dies"
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Like Madeline being dead when she had only had an attack, it is really exaggerated that after an attack, someone can immediately say that the person is dead. There is also a psychological issues in both of them, Roderick and Madeline, he has to struggle with acuteness of senses, and Madeline can not control herself.
Poe also talks about unrealistic events, when he starts to say that after Madeline had appeared, and had attacked Usher, he left the house. When he left the house, he turned around and saw the house crumbling down, and getting into a black hole. After an attack from the dead, it is unreal that the house would crumble down. That is an example of 2 exaggerated things.
As I said, I was going to explain in detail about what makes the story an example of Romanticism, some characteristics of Romanticism, is Gothic Novel, for instance, meaning it is romantic, but, this story is not romantic at all, it may be in some kind of way, when you realize that Roderick and Madeline are twins, and that they have some type of bond. I wanted to leave this in a clear way, for you also to understand the elements of