Fall Of The Usher House Research Paper

Have you ever heard of romanticism? Do you know what romanticism consist of? To know why "The Fall of the Usher House" is an example of romanticism, first we have to know what is romanticism. Romanticism was originated in Europe in the late 18th century. Romanticism was known by its priority to focus on emotions, nature and the past. Romanticism described very well nature and emotions, they expressed themselves writing.They had always tried to be very detailed when they write. Romanticism in literature began in the 1790s with the release of "Lyrical Ballads" by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. After this, William Wordsworth release "Preface" which was a second edition of Lyrical Ballads. William described poetry as "spontaneous

Like the best very beginning of the romantic period that they then started to do works influenced on the weird and the supernatural, Allan Poe was attracted to this kind of things, so gives this kind of weird and spectral mood on this short story. Edgar Allan Poe was an influential romanticism writer. Known by giving his stories that theme of mystery. The Fall of the Usher House was not the exception. Allan Poe decided to give The Fall of the Usher House a mysterious theme and macabre. He gave it a dark and gloomy setting. Like every horror story needs to happen on a darkness environment to give it that touch or feeling of scariness. He decides to make Roderick house like a typical horror house. A big house for only him where rare things happen. Not only that but also a house on a very bad state like it seems to about fall down into pieces. This is in what romanticism consisted in a while back in the 1800s. Edgar Allan Poe express himself like this, he was very detailed with the nature. The story has a sad, dark, rainy setting and also his emotions by showing Roderick's