Question

What forms of artistic expression does Usher share with the narrator in Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher

Answer 1

The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839.

"The Fall of the House of Usher" is considered the best example of Poe's "totality", wherein every element and detail is related and relevant.

The theme of the crumbling, haunted castle is a key feature of Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto (1764), which largely contributed in defining the Gothic genre.

The presence of a capacious, disintegrating house symbolizing the destruction of the human body is a characteristic element in Poe's later work