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   Need help with The Fall of the House of Usher in Edgar Allan Poe's Poe's Stories? Check out our revolutionary side-by-side summary and analysis.

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   ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ is an 1839 short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49), a pioneer of the short story and a writer who arguably unleashed the full psychological potential of the Gothic horror genre. The story concerns the narrator’s visit to a strange mansion owned by his childhood friend, who is…

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   A summary of “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839) in Edgar Allan Poe's Poe’s Short Stories. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Poe’s Short Stories and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.

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   “The Fall of the House of Usher” possesses the quintessential features of the Gothic tale: a haunted house, dreary landscape, mysterious sickness, and doubled personality. For all its easily identifiable Gothic elements, however, part of the terror of this story is its vagueness.

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   Summary. Analysis. The story begins at the moment the narrator of "Pit and Pendulum" is sentenced to death at the time of the Catholic Inquisition. The narrator listens to his sentence in a dream-like state, watching the sinister movement of the judges’ lips and the swaying black drapes.

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   Summary and Analysis "The Pit and the Pendulum" Summary As Poe repeatedly maintained in his critical views, the most successful story occurs when the author decides what effect or effects he wants to achieve and then decides what techniques to use to achieve that effect.

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   Who wrote the fall of the House of Usher?

   • ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ is an 1839 short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49), a pioneer of the short story and a writer who arguably unleashed the full psychological potential of the Gothic horror genre. The story concerns the narrator’s visit to a strange mansion owned by his childhood friend, who is…

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   Is the fall of the House of Usher a gothic horror story?

   • ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ is probably Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous story, and in many ways it is a quintessential Gothic horror story.

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   How do you interpret Poe's Fall of the House of Usher?

   • For some of the widely differing interpretations, the reader should consult the volume Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Poe's " Fall of the House of Usher. " One key to the story is, of course, the name of the main character. An usher is someone who lets one in or leads one in.

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   What happens at the end of the House of Usher?

   • Certainly at the end of the story, Lady Madeline falls upon him in an almost vampire-like sucking position and the two of them are climactically, totally one, finally united in the light of the full moon, by which the narrator is able to see the tumultuous Fall of the House of Usher.

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   What was Poe thinking about 'the pit and the pendulum'?

   • In "The Pit and the Pendulum," Poe apparently had in mind the effects of unrelieved torture and suspense. The story begins with the trial of the narrator, as he sits before seven very severe judges; he is "sick — sick unto death," because the judges have an "immoveable resolution — of stern contempt of human torture."

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   How does the story 'pit & pendulum' start?

   • The story begins at the moment the narrator of "Pit and Pendulum" is sentenced to death at the time of the Catholic Inquisition. The narrator listens to his sentence in a dream-like state, watching the sinister movement of the judges’ lips and the swaying black drapes.

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   Summary and Analysis "The Fall of the House of Usher". Summary. The first five paragraphs of the story are devoted to creating a gothic mood — that is, the ancient decaying castle is eerie and moldy and the surrounding moat seems stagnant. Immediately Poe entraps us; we have a sense of being confined within the boundaries of the House of Usher.