Essay Poe

UNIVERSIDAD DE PUERTO RICO RECINTO DE CAROLINA

INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE

CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO

Loyalty

(A Rose to Emily and The Fall of the House of Usher Comparison)

BRYAN ACOSTA RIVERA

L-03

PROF. HELVIA GUZMAN

845-15-0143

At the beginning of the stories you notice a particular thing with one of the members of the houses. They keep everything that happens in the house quite, yes, it’s the butlers.

Throughout the stories, they give little detail on them, but what we know is that they’re completely loyal to the owners of the house. From the corpse in Emily’s bed to the taboo themes in the house of Usher. It’s quite scary to say the least. To have crazy people near you but someone covering for them, is quite uncommon…Moreover, the fact that they completely trusted the owners, knowing the deficiency they had is interesting. Because you normally do not like or trust someone you do not know how they react under different circumstances. Yet the Butlers completely trusted the Ushers’ and Emily.

To conclude, we live in a world where some times these sorts of things happened to people with mental incapacities, either by fear of discrimination or being treated like something less, so the family entitles someone to take care of them and that spikes a strong sense of loyalty to the patient. Nevertheless, they had to put the patients in a mental institute so they could get the help they needed from the Ushers to Emily.