The Fall Of The House Of Usher: Imagery And Parallelism

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friend is reading him a story. As things happen in the story,
simultaneously the same description of the noises come from within the house.
As Usher tries to persuade the narrator that it is his sister coming for him,
and his friend believing Roderick has gone stark raving mad, Madeline comes
bursting in through the door and kills her brother. The narrator flees from the
house, and no sooner does he get away than he turns around and sees a fissure in
the houses masonry envelop the house and then watch the ground swallow up the
remains.
In "The Fall of the House of Usher" Poe introduces the reader to three
characters; Lady Madeline, Roderick Usher, and the narrator, whose name is never
given. Lady Madelin, the twin sister of Roderick Usher, does not speak one word
throughout the story. In fact she is absent from most of the story, and she and
the narrator do not stay together in the same room. After the narrators arrival
she takes to her bed and falls into a ...

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He looks for natural explanations for the odd
things that Roderick senses. Criticizing Usher for his outrageous fantasies,
the narrator claims that Roderick is “enchained by certain superstitious
impressions, in regard to the dwelling which he tenanted”(Poe,125). The
narrator's tone suggests that he cannot understand Usher. However he himself is
superstitious.
The three characters are unique people with different characteristics, but
they all eventually suffer from the same mental disorder. All of them suffer
from insanity, yet each responds differently. Madeline seems to accept the fact
that she is insane and continues through life with that knowledge. Roderick
seems to ...

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