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Unity and Effect in The Fall of the House of Usher

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The story, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” is a representative work of Edgar Allan Poe. Moreover, the representative horror tale, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” exemplifies his principle of unity of effect. Beginning with a long periodic, it leads the reader right into the strange and claustrophobic house of Usher. The story is about a cursed family and its fall. In the story, the narrator received a letter from his old friend Roderick Usher. He invited the narrator to the house to spend some time with him and make him feel better from the strong mental inherited disease which made him too nervous to stand any piece of light, smell, and sounds. In addition, he was affected deeply by long-time enduring of appearance and feature of the house. The house is bleak and desolate, gloomy, murky, dark and hollow with broken walls. And the other reason made him fragile is his only family member left, who is his sister Madeline, is moribund because of serious illness. (Poe, 317) The narrator tried to spend time to entertain him. They painted, read some books, played guitar and sang songs with a guitar. One of the songs Roderick sang is called, “The Haunted Palace,” which reflects the situation of the House of Usher by similar appearance of the two houses, and things happened to them. A few days later, his sister Madeline died. They moved her body to the vault for a few days. However, the girl came out from there, walk back to find his brother and they died together, while the narrator was reading a story with Roderick. It is kind of destiny of the whole family. (Poe, 326) The House of Usher is a reflection of the Usher’s family. The impression of the house from the narrator is, “melancholy House of Usher,” with, “bleak walls,” and, "vacant eye-like windows.” That shows the impression of the family to people-the cursed family. And in the end, with death of the only two Ushers, “the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the House of Usher” (Poe, 336) This story is one of the most famous stories written by a man called Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe is recognized as one of the most brilliant and original writers in American literature. He is a very outst

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