Gothic Romanticism: Hawthorne, Poe, Baudelaire
Gothic Fiction Writers
Gothic fiction writers always use human nature in the character(s) death or demise. Gothic fiction writers express human nature in two ways, by being obvious and directly saying it, or leaving hints by putting the human nature in little details throughout the story. That is why you must read very carefully in Gothic fiction stories, or you will miss important information. Throughout these stories when the human nature of the passage is revealed, the flaws in human nature are the qualities that are revealed. The human nature of the characters is the weakness that leads to their doom.In "The Fall of the House of Usher" when the narrator enters the House of Usher he finds Rodrick Usher who is sibling to Madeline Usher. Madeline has a 'disease' that no physician can cure, "The disease of Madeline had long baffled the skill of her physicians"(Usher 7). The fact that Madeline is a vampire explains why the Usher's are nervous around her. The downfall of the Usher's was their fear of Madeline, when they buried her alive she came back with a vengeance. And that is why she killed them when she got out of her tomb. "There was blood on her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. For a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold, then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death-agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated" (Usher 10).
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