House Of Usher Theme

The House of Usher is a story with many themes and elements in it. They include the theme of entrapment. There is also the theme of the dead’s power over the living. The narrator has many traits of which he is characterized by cowardice is shown when he leaves the premises of the house with such speed that people would think he was being chased by a “monster” and in a way he was. The narrator was also characterized by being extremely loyal he dropped everything he was doing and went to comfort his friend from childhood. The character was also a very reliable source because he knew the whole story of the Ushers. He had known Roderick since childhood.

The narrator was not characterized in means of description of his features or in any other way. We are left to infer about the character and his values. We catch a glimpse of this when we are told that the narrator received a letter from his best friend from childhood. We are not told how old the narrator or Roderick was, but we can infer from text in the book that he was in his late thirties or early forties. This means there was a …show more content…
The establishment that Roderick and Lady Usher were in a dysfunctional possibly even a forced sexual relationship. The narrator was a loyal friend - more loyal than most people would be today. He dropped everything at the drop of the hat to assist his old friend from his childhood Rodrick. He spent about a week with him doing things that most kids would do in their early ages. It can be speculated that Roderick was trying to bring back the memories of his past when he was a pure child and before the things that troubled him began. He was a shell of his former self like when a championship boxer loses his belt. He was also in the sense that he, being more matured than Roderick, would have better ways to spend his time. In the end the narrator was the last person to see Roderick