The fall of the

house of
Usher by Edgar Alan Poe
Ana Luiza de Oliveira Domingos
Annelise Melo Pereira
The title
The story is about the fall,
literally, of the Usher house and
the end of the bloodline or the
family.
 The fall of the house of Usher
Plot

Exposition
Suspense/ horror An unnamed character arrives in the house of Usher
to help an old friend.
Elements of the narrative psychological suspense
Complication
Narrator Roderick Usher, his childhood friend, owner of the
house, is suffering from hysteria. He sends a letter
First person. Unnamed to the narrator telling him to go to his house
character is the narrator urgently, telling him about his illness. Already in
Roderic's Manson after his sister dies, he asks for
Time the unnamed character to help him put his sister
Characters classification The unnamed inside a vault in the house.
character spend
Round Character Clímax
Roderick Usher days in the
Unnamed reads a story called “Mad Trist” that
mansion of mirrors the moment that the characters are living.
Usher’s family.
Flat Character
Madeline Usher Resolution
Space Unnamed runs away leaving the House of Usher
Flat Character Mansion in a behind.
Unnamed narrator remote landscape
Gothic Symbols

An ancestral curse Female victim

Madness Mansion in a desolate

landscape

Death
Incest
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curve
Narrative Tension

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Unnamed arrives.

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1. The Usher family has a direct line of descent.

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Meets Usher inside the house.

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Usher is insane.

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Usher explain the reason why he is the way.e is

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The love of Usher for his sister, and

how her deceasement would make
him worse.

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After the death of Lady

Madeline, Usher asks for
Unnamed help to preserve the
body for a fortnight .

Narrative Time
 The vault is under
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unnamed room.

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 Usher goes to unnamed room
and unnamed character
reads for him “Mad Trist”.
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 Lady Madeline
appears.
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Unnamed runs away and

the house asunders.

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Interpretation
The house is built by the narrator in a personification
manner. Is a very descriptive way of telling the story, while
we follow the character he details everything about the
space and because of that, it looks like we are being
trapped inside.
The fact that the main character doesn't have a name,
makes it easy for the reader to put himself in the story.
Besides the insanity of Roderick Usher, we are not given much
information about the characters, but the house has a lot of details,
which can be implied that the house becomes the main character in the
story.
The house can be seen as a representation of the family, and with the
end the house is suffering because maybe she knows that her ending is
coming.
The crack in the house can be a representation of the last
representation of union between the twins, when Lady Madeline dies the
house crack opens and the house falls down.
Referências
POE, Edgar Allan. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. London: Signature Classics,
2017