![]() ![]() The narrator notices change in Roderick’s appearance, probably due to his failing health. When he arrives, he notices a scary look of the setting and the lake around the house that gives an equally frightening image. The narrator receives an invitation via a letter to visit him since he has been ill for a while and needs the narrator’s help. ![]() ![]() The story commences with the narrator’s visit to the house of Usher, the one where his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, lives. The similarities between the two stories outweigh their differences. “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Cask of the Amontillado” share all of the features above, as well as the main themes that exist in Edgar Allan Poe’s writing. As the narration progresses, fear arises in the reader or viewer, and finally, something horrific happens. Their setting is imaginary in an old, scary, and absurd environment that probably has never existed. In summary, the main goal of any gothic story is to arouse fear in the reader or viewer of the story. He was the first person to use the term ‘short story’ Poe wrote this story as an act of revenge to another writer Montresor chains Fortunato to a wall and bricks up the opening. The both houses “die” at the same time: Madeline falls on her brother, and the mansion collapsesĪ real House of Usher was located in Boston and was just as eerie as Poe's Scary, Gloomy, Foreboding, Melancholic, Dark ![]()
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