Death Conquers All:
The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allen Poe
In his short story "The Fall of the House of Usher", Edgar Allen Poe presents an elaborated plot filled with a prophetic sense of destruction. Poe uses several literary devices, among the most prevalent, such as his unhealthy mental imagery and a parallelism that is so strange as it inspires a feeling of fear.
In "The Fall of the House of Usher" Poe introduces the reader to three characters; Lady Madeline, Roderick Usher, and the narrator, whose name is never given. …