and “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Good and Evil have been main themes to different stories. People always trying to get more than they need in real life. People are searching to get their own benefit. Materialistic world has become superior to many people. “How Much Land Does a Man Need” by Leo Tolstoy and “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Poe expose the most negative characteristics of human character.
"The Fall of the House of Usher" delineates Poe's basic principle that solidarity of impact relies on upon solidarity of tone. Everything about this story, from the opening portrayal of the moist tarn and the dull rooms of the house to the unearthly tempest which goes with Madeline's arrival from the tomb, passes on the fear that overpowers lastly wrecks the delicate personality of Roderick Usher.
Tolstoy tells that insatiability begins from pining for of other's belonging. He begins his story with two ladies, contending about whose life was better; an existence with or without belonging. As the two proceeded with, the expert of the house, Pahom, contemplated internally, "In the event that I had a lot of area, I shouldn't fear the Devil himself!" Pahom's imagined that he would not do any wrongdoing on the off chance that he had land begun the entire procedure of eagerness and set off the Devil to allow him his wishes for area. In this way, Pahom wound up with grounds to himself by the force of the Devil. When we pine for other's belonging and let voracity assume control over our psyche, we regularly offer into the works of Devil over our lives. This indicated how insatiability can make us fall into Devil's work.
Fear, even this amazing which brings about franticness and demise, is insignificant unless it can by one means or another delineate a standard of human instinct. One way to deal with comprehension the genuine noteworthiness of this story lies in the numerous associations that Poe builds up for the peruser. Roderick and Madeline are sibling and sister as well as twins who offer "sensitivities of a hardly coherent nature" which associate his mental breaking down to her physical decay. As Madeline's strange ailment approaches physical loss of motion, Roderick's mental disturbance takes the type of a "dismal intensity of the faculties" that isolates his body from the physical world making every typical sensation excruciating: "the most vapid nourishment was separated from everyone else tolerable; he could wear just pieces of clothing of certain surface; the scents of all blossoms were abusive; his eyes were tormented by even a weak light; and there were yet exceptional sounds, and these were from stringed instruments, which did not motivate him with loathsomeness."
Other than the way that Roderick and Madeline are twins as well as speak to the mental and physical parts of a solitary being or soul, there is additionally an association between the family manor and the remaining individuals who live inside. Poe utilizes the expression "Place of Usher" to allude to both the rotting physical structure and the remainder of the "untouched respected Usher race" Roderick has added to a hypothesis that the stones of the house have awareness, and that they encapsulate the destiny of the Usher crew. "He was enchained by specific superstitious impressions with respect to the abode which he tenanted, and whence for a long time, he had never wandered forth" Roderick additionally makes another association between a house and a man in the ballad, "The Haunted Palace." The break in the Usher chateau which is at first scarcely noticeable by the storyteller, typically proposes a defect or key split in the twin identity of Roderick and Madeline, and foretells the last demolish of both family and manor.
The storyteller is associated with the Usher family since he and Roderick were once close childhood allies. They have not seen one another for a long time, and it is simply because of their past closeness and the clear feeling in Roderick's solicitation that persuades the storyteller to make the voyage. As an aftereffect of this, the storyteller spends the opening passages reflecting upon the past and also attempting to set himself up for the up and coming get-together; be that as it may, nothing sets him up for the "adjusted" condition of his adolescence friend: "a cadaverousness of appearance; an eye huge, fluid, and glowing past correlation; lips to some degree meager and exceptionally colorless, however of a surpassingly excellent bend; a nose of a sensitive Hebrew model, yet with an expansiveness of nostril surprising in comparable arrangements; a finely shaped button, talking in its need of noticeable quality, of a need of good vitality; hair of a more than web-like delicate quality and fragility; these elements, with an unnecessary extension over the districts of the sanctuary, made up inside and out a face not effectively to be overlooked."
As the story advances, Tolstoy passes on his message that avarice has no limits. At the point when Pahom picked up area, he got to be possessive of the area and brought on question with his neighbors. Because of dangers by the neighbors, Pahom moved to a bigger area where he could have and develop more harvests for himself. At whatever point there was a chance to acquire land, Pahom, brimming with ravenousness, moved to the next area to fulfill him. Be that as it may, all around he moved, he wasn't fulfilled by what he had. He searched for progressively and better land despite the fact that what he had was sufficient for him. Pahom's activities mirror the attributes of avarice once more. As what Tolstoy attempted to tell, avarice has no limits. What we have with us doesn't appear to be agreeable, and it keeps us to search for additional.
Tolstoy closes his story with a superb illustration. On Pahom's last outing to discover area, he picked up a chance to pick up area as much as he needed. Pahom made an arrangement that he would pick up the area that he made imprint on in the event that he returned to the beginning stage before nightfall. Pahom, full with ravenousness, strolls past his cutoff points. Subsequently, Pahom needed to raced to return to the beginning stage. When he did, he passed on of fatigue. The landowner, who witnessed this, covered Pahom. The main area he required at last was eight feet long, three feet wide land. The end of the story shows us the amount we really require in life. After death, people don't convey or carry anything with us. Utilize the time given for preferred things over to fulfill eagerness.
Numerous individuals on the planet today trust that we require belonging and riches to carry on with a glad life. They regularly squander their time attempting to acquire for themselves. As Tolstoy tries to let us know, we ought not have covetousness on materials that are insignificant, but rather we ought to do things that are commendable. As the story said, the main thing we require at last, is a little real estate parcel.
Works Cited
Poe, Edgar. The Fall of the House of Usher. 1839. Web.
<http://poestories.com/read/houseofusher>.
Tolstoy, Leo. How Much Land Does a Man Need. Web.
<http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/2738/>.
