The short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe tells of a visit by an unnamed narrator to his friend Roderick Usher, the last surviving member of the House of Usher, who has been overcome by hypochondria and anxiety. While at the house, Roderick's sister Madeline falls ill and appears to die, though she is later discovered alive while being entombed. She attacks Roderick in a delirious state and they both die as the house cracks and sinks into a tarn, ending the Usher bloodline.

1. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER

2. EDGARD ALLAN POE
American writer, poet and critic. Edgar Allan Poe is
famous for his tales and poems of horror and mystery,
including "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell-
Tale Heart" and "The Raven."

3. VIDEO OF THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF
USHER

4. NARRATION OF THE SHORT STORY
A sense of
insufferable
gloom pervated
his spirit

5. Roderick Usher was his
companion in boyhood.
Its principal feature was of an
excessive antiquity.

6. -His illness, a mental
disorder
- the desire to see
the narrator
-To help him in the
alleviation of his
malady or sickness

7. The entire family lain in
the direct line of
descent. It was a
transmission from sire
to son.

8. The narrator describes
the antiquity of the
house and its furniture.
Usher’s countenance
conviced the narrator of
a perfect sincerity.

9. He is described as a cadaverous one and that he had an
excessive agitation.

10. Usher’s malady was a
constitutional and family
evil.
Lady Madeline had a
cataleptical character

11. The narrator noticed a
small picture in the interior
of a vault or tunnel.

12. THE HAUNTED PALACE
Poetry that describes the
dancing of ghosts and the
phantasmagoric palace. It can be
compared with the “House of
Usher”.

13. The lady Madeline was no
more.
They encoffined the body.

14. The narrator felt the full
power of horror.
“Mad Trist” a book of similar
anomalies.

15. She had blood in her robes.
She remained trembling but
then, she fell upon Usher.

16. The narrator fled away from
the mansion.
A whirlwind destroyed
the walls. There was a
shouting and the tarn
closed sinlently over
the fragments of the
“House of Usher”.

18. CHARACTERS
The narrator
He was childhood friends with Roderick Usher.

19. Roderick Usher
The last living descendant, along
with his ailing sister Madeline,
of the Ushers

20. Madeline
She suffers from a mysterious
illness, cataleptic in nature,
never otherwise explained.

21. PLOT
Internal Conflict: Superstition they feel while in the house.
External Conflict: Roderick is physically ill.

22. RISING ACTION
Roderick Usher asks the narrator
to visit him to try to make
him feel better.

23. CLIMAX
Roderick Usher sees Lady Madeline
burst through the door as stand in the
doorway covered in blood that she
got from escaping the coffin.

24. FALLING ACTION
Lady Madeline attacks Roderick
for burying her when she was
still alive.

25. RESOLUTION
Roderick Usher dies and the narrator
flees the scene as the house comes
down with both Lady Madeline and
Roderick Usher leaving no trace.

26. THEMES
* Mortality
* Fear
* Incest
* Friendship