Compression Achieved in Poe¡¯s The Fall of the House of Usher

Title: Compression Achieved in Poe¡¯s The Fall of the House of Usher
Thesis Statement: By using such devices like detailed description, suspense, image and foreshadowing suggestion, Poe succeeded in expressing in The Fall of the House of Usher a sense of melancholy and terror.
Text:
According to Poe¡¯s theories of short stories, no words should be used which does not contribute to the ¡°pre-established¡± design of the work, namely, the ¡°single effect¡± of a story. In his The Fall of the House of Usher, this is evidently elucidated.
As a typical Gothic novel, The Fall is overspread with a melancholy atmosphere. From the very outset, with words like ¡°a dull, dark, and soundless day,¡± ¡°a sense of insufferable gloom,¡± ¡°the bleak wall,¡± ¡°the vacant eye-like windows,¡± ¡°decayed trees,¡± and ¡°iciness¡±, Poe opens out a most vivid picture of the exterior of the Usher house, therefore, the reader is instantly brought into a gloomy ...