![]() Not surprisingly, The Fall of the House of Usher displays several hidden messages that allow readers to interpret the work in different ways. The criterion of art in literature, according to Poe, was the hidden meaning as the obvious one deprives the piece of work of its artistic value (Lynch and Rampton, 2005, p. As a writer who is considered to be the father of the so-called Gothic style in literature, Edgar Alan Poe focused his writing on the issues of life and death, health and illness, peculiarities of human psychology and its deviations, etc. ![]() To start with, Edgar Alan Poe (1809 – 1849), the author of the short story under analysis is a famous American writer credited for his talent of seeing deep into people’s souls. The analysis includes the background of the author and the short story under consideration, as well as the detailed examination of the nature of the society Poe’s characters, and the author himself, inhabit, and the attitudes of the author towards the society contemporary to him. This paper focuses on the Marxist analysis of The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Alan Poe. ![]()
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