The plot of the story is very interesting, but also hard to analyse, because it is rather big.
There is no introduction in the story and E. A. Poe decided to start it with the exposition, where he depicts the setting and the main characters. The author starts the story in such a way :
"DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher."
So, the writer wants to draw our attention to the word "DURING'', which is capitalized. In such a way E. A. Poe wanted to emphasise that it took the main character of the story the whole night to get to the house of his friend. And the writer starts the story with the descriptiom of the house outside and inside and tells us about the feelings and emotions of the main character when he saw the house.
Then the story continues with the development of events. We get to know that Mister Usher and his sister are very ill ang they are going to die, that is why the house they live in look so terrible. They are unable to take care of such a big mansion. Then Miss Usher dies. At least the two men think so. They bury her in the family vaults, which was underneath the mansion.
The climax f the story comes when the narrator and Mr. Usher are sitting in the library at night and reading a book, and while they are reading it aloud an echo comes from somewhere and then comes ''the dead'' sister of Mr. Usher. he thought that the burried Madeline alive. he was scared to death. As a result they died together.
In the conclusion of the story we see, that Mr. Usher dies together with his sister, the house cracks into two parts and falls down.The narrator was standing outside and watching the ruins of the house under the blood-red moon:
"While I gazed, this fissure rapidly widened--there came a fierce breath of the whirlwind--the entire orb of the satellite burst at once upon my sight--my brain reeled as I saw the mighty walls rushing asunder--there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand waters--and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the "HOUSE OF USHER."
And the last words of the story are also capitalized. May be in such a way the writer wanted to emphasize the fact the stopped its existence and the story of it is finished.
The story is written in the 1st person narration. Reading the story we see that the author is like the participant of the events and, of course, he describes his feelings and emotions using personal pronoun "I".
There is no introduction in the story and E. A. Poe decided to start it with the exposition, where he depicts the setting and the main characters. The author starts the story in such a way :
"DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher."
So, the writer wants to draw our attention to the word "DURING'', which is capitalized. In such a way E. A. Poe wanted to emphasise that it took the main character of the story the whole night to get to the house of his friend. And the writer starts the story with the descriptiom of the house outside and inside and tells us about the feelings and emotions of the main character when he saw the house.
Then the story continues with the development of events. We get to know that Mister Usher and his sister are very ill ang they are going to die, that is why the house they live in look so terrible. They are unable to take care of such a big mansion. Then Miss Usher dies. At least the two men think so. They bury her in the family vaults, which was underneath the mansion.
The climax f the story comes when the narrator and Mr. Usher are sitting in the library at night and reading a book, and while they are reading it aloud an echo comes from somewhere and then comes ''the dead'' sister of Mr. Usher. he thought that the burried Madeline alive. he was scared to death. As a result they died together.
In the conclusion of the story we see, that Mr. Usher dies together with his sister, the house cracks into two parts and falls down.The narrator was standing outside and watching the ruins of the house under the blood-red moon:
"While I gazed, this fissure rapidly widened--there came a fierce breath of the whirlwind--the entire orb of the satellite burst at once upon my sight--my brain reeled as I saw the mighty walls rushing asunder--there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand waters--and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the "HOUSE OF USHER."
And the last words of the story are also capitalized. May be in such a way the writer wanted to emphasize the fact the stopped its existence and the story of it is finished.
The story is written in the 1st person narration. Reading the story we see that the author is like the participant of the events and, of course, he describes his feelings and emotions using personal pronoun "I".
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