The Fall Of The House Of Usher And House Taken Over

Fear is among one of the most universal human emotions that everyone is interconnected at one point or another during their lifetime. In the gothic stories, “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “House Taken Over” written by Edgar Allan Poe and Julio Cortazar respectively. Edgar Allen Poe writes about how the character Mr. Usher, who because of his mental illness and delusions, cannot come to terms with his reality. Cortazar writes about the relationship between a brother and sister who have normal everyday lives and have strange and odd nightmare that haunts them. The

With our imagination we can have many thoughts in our mind, we can think of how we want to be in the future. Everybody in this world has their own way of thinking. “In the Gothic stories, “The Fall of The House of Usher written by Edgar Allan Poe and “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortazar the authors write about how both stories have some type of interest that makes the reader want to be very eager about the story. The imagination can overcome reason through issues such as: fear, paranoid, delusion, etc. The House of The Fall of Usher talks about how Mr. Usher is trying to get over his “dead” sister and the narrator is trying to help him. They begin to hear things inside the house, and realize that the sister was alive at the end. House Taken Over about a bother and sister that share a house that’s been passed over from previous family members and normally they have a typical daily routine but at night they come across “spooky” occasions.

The House Taken Over, a Short story by Julio Cortázar, and The Fall of The House of Usher, a short story by Edgar Allen Poe, Both have a very similar goth type themed plot. Julio Cortázar published his story in 1946, while Edgar Allen Poe’s story was published in 1839. Although both stories have many similarities, they also have many differences.

The “Fall of the house of usher” is classified as Gothic literature due to its dark theming as well as its macabre atmosphere , While very similar to “The Fall of the House of Usher” , “House taken Over” is not classified as gothic literature it is classified as Magical realism due to its more magical senses as well as mystery behind the unknown forces that are taking over the house.

For it is only within the context of this nightmare that one can explain why “Usher,” occupies such an important place in the 19th century development of the Gothic genre. With great attention to economy of expression and unity of effect, this pattern would be revisited by countless other Gothic stylists” (Dougherty 6). This means that Poe used the fantasy of impending doom in “The Fall of the House of Usher” to change it from being just an upper class dream, to a tale of horror which brought together some of the political situations in the nineteenth century such as those of race and class. Hawthorne and Poe successfully incorporated gothic elements in their writing which provides greater insight to the meaning and interpretation of their works.

Throughout both short stories, “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “House Taken Over” readers are exposed to situations in which imagination overcomes reason in some characters. In the short story, “The Fall of The House of Usher” written by Edgar Allan Poe imagination overcomes reason with both the narrator and the main character. Roderick Usher and the narrator believe they are hearing the noises in the house that are being described in a novel they are reading. In addition, Usher’s imagination overcomes his reason when he believes he hears noises of his dead sister Madeline. Similarly, in the short story “House Taken Over” written by Julio Cortazar it exemplifies the idea of imagination overcoming reasoning. This is showed when a brother and a sister are driven from their home when it's invaded by unwelcomed visitors. The siblings believe there is an evil force taking over their house. LIkewise, in the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe the idea of imagination overcoming reasoning is shown when the author believes that there is an evil force that keeps reminding him of something he is trying to forget ; Lenore. Aso his imagination takes over his reasoning since he is talking with a raven, even though birds do not talk. In both the short stories and the poem the idea of imagination overcoming reasoning is portrayed throughout the characters.

Similarly, the setting in both stories, the stories include two siblings-Madeline and Usher, Irene and her brother-who live in a very bygone, spacious, and lonely house.This can be seen in “House Taken Over” where it says, “We liked the house because, apart from its being old and spacious…”(1). Irene’s brother narrated how vast the house was and he later mentions that even though it is so big only two people live in it while it can occupy eight or people. Another similarity is that both houses were owned in the family through many generations. This idea can be seen in “House Taken Over,” where Cortazar explains, “ ...it kept the memories of great-grandparents, our paternal grandfather, our parents and the whole of childhood (1). Cortazar’s short

Transformation plays a role in stories meant to scare us by playing with our imagination safety and mood of a story. Imagination appears in both Edgar Allan Poe’s, gothic fiction story “The Fall of the House of Usher,” by Usher’s isolated environment and in Joyce Carol Oates gothic literature story “Where is Here?,” by foreseeing who people are. Transformation also plays a role by it assists knowing our own selves are safe in a scary situation. This is shown in, “ Why do Some Brains Enjoy Fear?,” by Allegra Ringo and in “ House Taken Over,” by Julio Cortazar. Transformation plays with our imagination and our safety it also plays a role in the mood and setting. This appears in , “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and “The Dream Collector,”

While reading “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, I couldn’t help but feel a constant overwhelming sense of dread. The root of this could have come from the story’s dark setting deep within an “haunted forest” or from Brown’s mysterious “Devil”-esque companion. While I read, another story came into my mind; the story of the “Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. In Poe’s tale the same heart pounding emotion can be felt as he describes the reunion of two friends within “the House of Usher.” With the manors “eye-like windows” and “sorrowful impression,” Poe wastes no time in setting the Gothic mood. Through their distinct writing styles Hawthorne and Poe establish a common Gothic theme within their stories.

Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, sets a tone that is dark, gloomy, and threatening. His inclusion of highly descriptive words and various forms of figurative language enhance the story’s evil nature, giving the house and its inhabitants eerie and “supernatural” qualities. Poe’s effective use of personification, symbolism, foreshadowing, and doubling create a morbid tale leading to, and ultimately causing, the fall of (the house of) Usher.

The main themes of Edgar Allan Poe’s works are death, perversity, revenge and destruction. The settings he employed in the given short stories, especially in The Fall of the House of Usher and The Black Cat are Gothic. Therefore, naturally the mood of these stories would be dark and sepulchral. However, this is not a trivial employment undertaken to put the reader in a certain kind of zone.

Edgar Allan Poe is undoubtedly one of American Literature's legendary and prolific writers, and it is normal to say that his works touched on many aspects of the human psyche and personality. While he was no psychologist, he wrote about things that could evoke the reasons behind every person's character, whether flawed or not. Some would say his works are of the horror genre, succeeding in frightening his audience into trying to finish reading the book in one sitting, but making them think beyond the story and analyze it through imagery. The "Fall of the House of Usher" is one such tale that uses such frightening imagery that one can only sigh in relief that it is just a work of fiction. However, based on the biography of Poe, events

“The Fall of the House of Usher (1939)”, arguably Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous short story, is a tale centered around the mysterious House of Usher and its equally indiscernible inhabitants. These subjects are plagued with physical and mental degradation – the Usher siblings suffer from various abnormal ailments and unexplained fears, while the house itself seems to be tethering on the edge of collapse. The gothic elements in the story are distributed generously, and the plot is increasingly ridden with the supernatural as it progresses.

Fear is a powerful feeling in that moment you don’t know what to do. In The Fall Of The House Of Usher written by Edgar Allan Poe and House Taken Over written by Cortazor the authors write about very weird but yet scary, spooky stories. The stories both connect in some ways in the gothic elements but oddly have different reactions. In The Fall Of The House Of Usher the character Mr. Usher has an illness which made him think he was going crazy when he would her all those creepy noises. Mr. Usher has a very terrible mental illness which made his phenotype look very terrible. But Mr. Usher and the narrator didn’t' react calmly in the other hand the characters from Hour Taken Did Their reaction was careless, calm very odd. Irlene and the narrator didn't even try to encounter ample find out what the "they' was. Imagination can overcome reason through issues such as fear paranoia, etc.

Edgar Allan Poe was a fictional writer that astonished readers with his many mysterious poems and his tales of horror such as “The Raven”, “Annabelle Lee”, and “The Fall of the house of Usher”.