The Fall Of The House Of Usher

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Poe utilizes supernatural-like elements in two of his three stories.In the Fall of the House of Usher, the house came apart rapidly. In Eleonora the setting of the story was located in the fictional place of the Valley of Many-Colored Grass, and in this story the supernatural element was that the Valley of Many-Colored Grass reacted to the way people felt. It changed from when they were kids to when the characters fell in love, and it changed again when Eleonora died. The supernatural element in the Pit and the Pendulum was the both the giant pit and the pendulum.

The supernatural elements or lack thereof affects the tone of the story. The supernatural elements in Eleonora helped the tone because the land symbolised there love for each