Roderick, cadaverous eyes, large liquid and luminous beyond comparison. Five persons figure into this tale, but the interest centers exclusively on one- Roderick Usher. His symbolism generally takes the form of allowing some object to stand for an abstraction or personal attribute. That he is not persistently a symbolist is one of his strengths, for it means that he only turns to symbolism when it has a distinct role to play. Madeline Usher is the anima figure in the story Poe’s use of symbolism in his gothic stories is a guiding thread to his literary art. (Neilson, 197, Buranelli, 62) Another of Poe’s writing techniques is anima.Īnima is giving a character quality of having an animal spirit. The entire opening scene is steeped in blackness and melancholy. Finding an identical pattern in each house and family, he makes the events in the book being read correspond to those going on in the house. Poe used the principle of analogy very effectively in House of Usher. From the first sentence to the last, the mood of desolation and impending doom never leaves. The story connects the plot and setting so that they seem one. Poe introduces plain life in its most rudimentary form, underscoring the miasmic elements in the tale. But the setting does have double importance, descriptive and symbolic. Too much of the horror has been attributed to its setting.
He combines atmosphere and analogy to form the setting which provokes to the reader a sense of insufferable gloom. He often drew upon memory for the setting of his stories. Poe uses Symbolism and analogies in both characters and setting to tell this gothic tale of death and downfall. The Fall of the House of Usher is acclaimed as one of Edgar Allan Poe’s greatest works.
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