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  • Roderick Usher
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    Edgar Allan Poe's story, The Fall of the House of Usher is set in the early 19th century United States. Oddly, it uses a castle for the place-setting, despite the fact that there have never been any castles in this country. The story illustrates the effect of isolation on the human being. It begins with the narrator having been asked to visit his friend from long ago, Roderick Usher, who is having many problems. The narrator describes in exquisite detail the gloomy appearance of Roderick's castl...
  • Twin Sister Of Roderick Usher
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    In Edgar Allan Goes, The Fall of the House of Usher, the three characters are the unknown narrator, the narrators old time friend Roderick Usher, and Rodericks sister Madeline Usher. The three characters are unique people with distinct characteristics, but they are tied together by the same type of mental disorder. They all suffer from insanity but they each respond to it differently. Roderick and his sister seem to have a spiritual attachment, and the narrator begins to get sucked into it. The ...
  • Narrator And Roderick Question
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    'The Fall of the House of Usher's ummary The narrator approaches the House of Usher on a 'dull, dark, and soundless day. ' This house -- the estate of his boyhood friend, Roderick Usher -- is very gloomy and mysterious. The narrator writes that the house seems to have collected an evil and diseased atmosphere from the decaying trees and murky ponds around it. He notes, however, that although the house itself is decaying in pieces (for example, individual stones are disintegrating), the structure...
  • Psyche's Struggle Against Evil
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    The Battling Psyche The human psyche is a mysterious and unknown force that human beings have attempted to understand for centuries. It is understood that as human being we possess this psyche, however the nature of this psyche is not known and has thus been examined and hypothesized upon by many great minds. Literature in particular seeks the means to offer a theorized explanation of the workings of this mysterious psyche in a multitude of ways, from scientific writings, to poetry and fiction. ...
  • Roderick Usher And The Narrator
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    The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe wrote, "The Fall of the House of Usher", using characterization, and imagery to depict fear, terror, and darkness on the human mind. Roderick and his twin sister, Madeline, are the last of the all time-honored House of Usher (Jacobs and Roberts, pg. 462). They are both suffering from rather strange illnesses, which may be attributed to the intermarriage of the family. Roderick suffers from "a morbid acuteness of the senses" (464), while Madeline's i...
  • Roderick And Madeline Usher
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    In "The Fall of the House of Usher", Edgar Allen Poe introduces us to a world of insanity, where all characters are subjected to extreme states of madness and mental dissolution. Roderick and Madeline Usher are the sole survivors of the "all time-honored Usher race". They both suffer from a severe, yet unknown illness. While the writer does not give any clear and rational clues as to what motivates Roderick to afflict certain acts upon his sister, It is evident that Roderick's motivation may onl...

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