Social norms can cause individuals hysteria and make them feel left out which causes them to break apart from society. Both Edgar Allen Poe and Jon Krakauer use different instances of conflict and foreshadowing to achieve a similar idea of the negative aspects of society. Society can cause individuals to think differently and cause them to make decisions whether they are good or bad. Edgar Allen Poe and Jon Krakauer illustrate internal conflict in differing ways. In his short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Edgar Allen Poe uses conflict to show how Rodrick isolation from society shows his effort to be himself despite living with illnesses. After Roderick and the narrator met again, Roderick states: I shall perish, said he, I must …show more content…
In his short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Edgar Allen Poe uses foreshadowing to show how Roderick is sad to let go of Madeline. A quote showing this is: The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of her youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon the lip which is so terrible in death. We replaced and screwed down the lid, and, having secured the door of iron, made our way, with toil, into the scarcely less gloomy apartments of the upper portion of the house (Poe 403). This quote shows the negative aspects of society because Roderick is so attached to Madeline that he doesn’t want to bury her. Roderick’s isolation from society has given him little interaction with humans. This foreshadowing is showing that Roderick and the narrator have buried Madeline alive. Poe’s use of this foreshadowing shows how Roderick cannot bare to part with Madeline and does not want to live with her dying, which expresses the idea that society has negative impacts on an individual. In his novel, Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer uses foreshadowing to illustrate the death of Alex. A quote foreshadowing Alex’s death