The Fall of The House of Usher: Edgar Alan Poe
Uploaded by amany kamal on May 26, 2006
The Fall of The House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe'd 'The fall of the house of usher' is a scary, chilling, and a little bit weird short story. In this story, a nameless man comes to visit his boyhood friend Roderick. Roderick and his sister are very ill.The part that really scared me at first, yet I like most is that one when Madeline come in to the room after she had suuposdaly died and killed her brother with her own bare hands.
In fact reading this terrifying story reminded me at once with a series of similar thrill movies I had already watched such as' I still know what you did last summer', 'the sixth sense', and 'The others'. Like 'the fall of the house of Usher',' the others' whole setting is inside a haunted house in which a mother and her two kids are awaiting for their father's return from war.
The scary atmosphere is much aroused in this movie when the little girl declares that she can see dead people moving around in their house which had pretty much scared her mom and her little brother as well as me...
I still remember when I first saw this movie alone , late at night short period ago. I can't forget how I was physically and spirityally involved with it whilst watching it even after it had ended, I also kept afraid that night and suffered of some sort insomnia.
In this short story, Poe uses the life-like characteristics of decaying house of usher as a devise for giving the house a supernatural atmosphere which in its turn creats an impression of terror, mystery, and horror inside the reader's heart. For example, right from the very beginning of the story, we knew that some thing mysterious was about to happen and it did.
The use of certain words such as ''insufferable'', ''gloomy'', ''vacant'', ''black'', ''lurid'' and ''rank sedges'' had its negative impact on me as it increased thefeeling of fear inside me... At the end of the story, I tried to return to the world of reality and started to ask myself a lot of questions. Like what did really happen?..... Lastly, Some thing I would like to mention here is that I like the fact that I am as a reader is still working in the text though the story is over.