Hi, need to submit a 1000 words paper on the topic The Fall of the House of Usher and The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe. The Fall of the House of Usher and The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe The representation of loss and the family is first seen in The Fall of the House of Usher. The House of Usher is one which Poe introduces as an old family home which he is designated to stay in. The fall is one which is attributed specifically to the loss of family and the fall of those who were in the home. It is the family that brings the “mansion of gloom” (Poe, 2) to the home and which ruins the home so it can never be recovered. This begins with the death of Madeline, the mother of the home. It is revealed that on her death, she is buried in the home and a tomb is left for her specifically out of respect for the home. The concept of keeping Madeline in the home as a tribute to love is one that begins with the fall and death of the home and which leads to the eventual haunting that is within the home by Madeline’s ghost. This representation shows that it is the concept of love, as opposed to practicality, that leads to the fall of the home, specifically which comes from the family ideologies.The representation of family in The Fall of the House of Usher continues with the way in which this affects Usher and his eventual despair. The narrator states that before the death of Madeline, Usher was normal. However, over time, the changes in the home had led him to a mental disease which he couldn’t recover from. This has led him to misery and to his eventual death and loss, brought specifically by the household.
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