The Fall of the House of Usher
In the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" it has interpretations that suggests Usher's nervousness and weakness was the result because Madeline Usher’s being a vampire. When the narrator went into the House of Usher it found Rodrick Usher who is the brother of Madeline who is a very special person as described in this passage, "The disease of Madeline had long baffled the skill of her physicians" (Usher 7). This partly explains why all of the Usher's are always so nervous around Madeline because she is a vampire. Later on after Madeline is dead and has been buried it say that they can hear her moving around in the tomb, "Not hear it?—yes, I hear it, and have heard it Long—long—long—many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it—yet I dared not—oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am!—I dared not—I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb! Said I not that my senses were acute? I now tell you that I heard her first feeble movements in the hollow coffin" (Usher 13). The Usher's family fell because of Madeline and that is why they were so afraid of her.
Gothic Fiction Writers
Gothic fiction writers express human nature by either sending it to the reader straight up or hiding it within some details of the story. No matter how they serve it to you they will always shows the flaws in it. All of these writers use human nature as everyone's weakness. They use human nature almost always as the problem of the story. Such as in "The Raven" the man who heard the raven had the human nature of curiosity to let the raven in which in turn led to his death. In "Dr.Heidegger's
Experiment" the Doctor knew that the human nature of the people in the experiment would want them to get young again, which in turn did not work out for the people. They only stayed young for a few minutes. No matter how you look at any Gothic fiction the authors will always use human nature as the reason for the person or persons death or demise.
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