The Gothic architecture gave the house the complete Gothic setting. In conclusion Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Fall of the House of Usher contains three of the elements of Gothic literature which are architecture, weather, and foreshadowing. It also tells us that madeleine is coming to get her revenge. This foreshadows that Roderick knew he had bury Madeline alive. Long-long-long-many minutes, many hours, many days, have i heard it.pg.761. Roderick says to the narrator yes, I hear it, and have hearit. The narrator says Instinctive spirit prompted me -to certain low and indefinite sounds which came through the pauses of the storms.pg.758. Within the story, foreshadowing represents an element of Gothic literature, because both Roderick and the narrator hear the sounds of madeline trying to out of her coffin. An was also making his friend Roderick more ill. This atmosphere affected the narrator once he enter. An air of ster, deep, and irredeemable gloom hung over and prevaded all. The narrator said I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

In the story, the weather represents an element of Gothic literature, because when the narrator enters the house he is fill with an atmosphere of sorrow and gloom. The zigzag crack and the Gothic archways of the house gives us the perfect Gothic setting. and I entered the Gothic archway of the hall.pg.751. The narrator said Made its way down the wall in a zigzag direction, until it became lost in the sullen waters of the tarn. The house also has beautiful Gothic arches. Within the story, the architecture represents an element of Gothic literature,because the house has a zigzag crack in the direction of the small lake near the house. “Romanticism in “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe”

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