A Critical Essay on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher (1

The twenty first century author Alexandra Iftodi Zamfir (1986- ) surrounds that architecture and settings be more important in Gothic fiction than in whatsoever other type of literature. (Zamfir. 2011 15). The spirit of architectural blank shell performs a epoch-making role within the narrative structure of Gothic fiction as it creates and builds layers of imagery that signify the horrific and gloomy a turn in full of automated teller machine and suspense. It was the Gothic writer Horace Walpole (1717-1797) who first illustrated in his Gothic bracing The Castle of Otranto (1764) an example symbolic to the nature and power of architectural space explored through the nature from his own house in Strawberry agglomerate which was the most complete neo-Gothic structure of the time. His mansion, as the author admits, stands at the nates ofarchitectural designshapes, decors, landscapes, were all under one form or another, elements of Gothic construction. (Zamfir. 2011 18) . This critical essay will explore and analyse the nature of Gothic architecture deployed as a vehicle of Gothic construction within the narrative structure of the American author Edgar Allan Poes (1809-1849) grisly and fictional prose The Fall of the House of Usher (1839). (Poe. 1987 1). I shall present and argue how the artistic effects deployed in the narrative structure create an atmosphere of tension and suspense, through the exploration and investigation of Gothic architecture, demonstrating a close-fitting reading and analysis from key passages of the text applying psychoanalytical examples from the nineteenth century theorist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). (Chiriac 1998-2011). The Fall of the House of Usher was written by the American author and poet Edgar Allan Poe, it first feat... ...gn_of_Space_in_Gothic_Architecture. Accessed 11th May 2012Giordano, R. (2005-2011) Poestories.com An Exploration of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe. On-line usable from http//www.poe stories.com/. Accessed 24th phratry 2011Gunn, A.G. (1997-2002) Cyclopaedia of Ghost Story Writers. On-line available from http//www.jb.man.ac.uk/agg/ghosts/poeea. Accessed 24th September 2011Hallqvist, C. (2001) The Poe Decoder. On-line Available from http//www.poedecoder.com/. Accessed 24th September 2011Montagna, J.A. (2006) The Industrial Revolution. On-line Available from http//www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/2/81.02.06.x.html. Accessed 11th May 2012Pridmore, J. (1998-2011) Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). On-line Available from http//www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/Poe.htm. Accessed 24th September 2011