Essay On The Fall Of The House Of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe’s work is far from the work that is done today. A lot of the work that is not as horrific as Poe’s work. Poe’s stories are more of a suspense and leave his readers wanting more. The theme of his work tells us that people cannot trust their family because they never know what they are up too. In the story “The Fall of the House of Usher” all the Usher family had suffered from a mental illness. A lot of Poe’s work turns out to be an unsolvable mystery or one that does not make sense. In this story, the narrator’s childhood friend suffers from mental illness and reaches out to him.
Roderick Usher’s mental state becomes worse as the story progresses. The narrator has seen that his childhood friend Roderick had a mental illness,

Poe had experienced tragic events in his childhood, and he may have found writing stories and poems as a form of releasing stress. Poe seems to be off about his actions when he writes a story or poem. “The Tell-Tale Heart” connects with the “The Fall of the House of Usher” because, in The Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator was being haunted by an old man he had killed by cutting up his body parts and then stuffing them under the floorboards of the old man’s home. The old man came back to haunt the narrator with the sound of his beating heart. In the Fall of the House of Usher, Madeline breaks free from her tomb and causes Roderick to have a heart attack because Roderick mistakenly buried her alive.
What a person goes through sometimes define them. The narrator becomes traumatized because of what he witnessed. For example, “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Raven” both discuss a disorder of the brain. These stories are written by the same author. And the author most likely suffers from a mental disorder too. A person’s work can also define them. Today many individuals overlook other people with an illness. These stories shed light on situations like