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" …showed first 75 words of 1064 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1064 total…into a prisoner. Even in the narrators words he viewed him as a "slave" of the house. All Roderick wanted was to be free from the "Daemon of Death", and only death would free him from his insanity and the confines of his house. Poe's graphic portrayal of imagery enhances every aspect of the story, from the suspense of the story itself, to the wild personalities of the characters and the similarly pathological themes presented.