The Embodiment of Edgar Allan Poe‘s Psychological State in “The Fall of The House of Usher”1839.

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the embodiment of the writer's psychology in the short story the Fall of the House of Usher and also aims to shed light on the writer's motives behind using the gothic style and some of the gothic techniques. Through the psychological analysis based on Sigmund Freud's theories, it was found that this story is from the writer's imagination, but it embodies his psychological state in the real life, as he expresses the other through the story, which is the dark side of American society during the nineteenth century.