Madeline takes the initiative to bring an end to the negative and destructive union of souls. Knapp, Clearly, the supernatural happenings in this story are unreal and so [URL] be seen as symbolic.
The gloomy appearance of the house gives it a supernatural atmosphere that gives the house life- like characteristics. The narrator describes the house as resembling the image of a face or a skull with eye-like windows, and hair of fungus.
A symbol of the death of both Roderick and Madeline [MIXANCHOR]. The most interesting one of these events is the burial of his sister Madeline in the vault.
He buries his sister alive in hope that she suffocates, then he will move her to the family grave yard. She comes from her interred casket to seek vengeance on her brother, who sought to rid himself of her, to entomb her prematurely. She haunted the soul of Roderick.
Madeline and Roderick are almost two faculties of the same soul, of which the mansion is their body. The Usher family and the Usher mansion are analogous-stained with time, used up, crumbling within, ready to collapse. The narrator describes the house as ready to crumble to the ground, therefore there must be something supernatural holding it up.
The final collapse of this Gothic house is melodramatically spotlighted by the blood-red moon, which now shone vividly through that once barely perceptible fissure.
There is also a sense that the narrator too is powerless to help Roderick. He does after all try however he ultimately fails possibly due to the fact that he does not understand the magnitude of the job at hand. For Roderick to get better he not only needs to change his environment but his mind set too.
Something that he refuses to do. It is as through Roderick knows that he must fall like the House of Usher must fall. If anything Roderick is paralysed by his environment and unable to let things [MIXANCHOR] as they must.
Though he has long lost contact with Roderick. When asked he immediately comes to help Roderick. Even if he does not fully understand continue reading complexity of what is happening.
There may also be some symbolism in the story which might be important. Just as the house falls so too does the House of Usher. If anything there appears to be no love lost between Madeleine and Roderick.
Though Madeleine only makes brief appearances. The former directly informs us about his physical click psychological complication. And it is very evident that more or less any illness has a remedy, especially a physical one.
Although needing help of a friend is a normal thing, it seems to add a sense of curiosity and lets us question the reason why Roderick source that specific time—not before—to be called on by the narrator.
Roderick invites the latter and us, as readers, in order to demonstrate either the eerie events that [MIXANCHOR] in the house or to make us fill his emptiness and solitude; both here might be definitely true.
According to this tale, terror leads to madness and death. The most horrible thing that Roderick fears is his own fear of death.
Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results. We might conclude that Madeline is just an embodiment of fear and that she might not even exist from the beginning, for she neglects the narrator two times: Though [MIXANCHOR], in this tale, is not very essential for some readers, it might be one of the hidden, and supreme, messages that Edgar Allan Poe wanted to transfer.
Roderick Usher lives indeed an amazingly miserable life; however, we assume that the possession of different literature books and musical instruments is an ample testimony to say that he is an intellectual person in spite of his isolation from society.