ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In ‘’The Fall of the House of Usher, ” the narrator helps Roderick Usher carry his sister Madeline’s presumably dead body down to the family vault in her coffin. Before sealing her coffin and leaving the vault, the two men take a last look at Madeline.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: Roderick and Madeline die together in the second to last paragraph of the story. In response, the narrator flees the house into the still raging storm. Once outside the house a flash of moonlight causes him to look back and see the house break in two and sink into the lake.

Detailed explanation-3: -Fearing that her body will be exhumed for medical study, Roderick insists that she be entombed for two weeks in the family tomb located in the house before being permanently buried. The narrator helps Roderick put Madeline’s body in the tomb, whereupon the narrator realizes that Madeline and Roderick are twins.

Detailed explanation-4: -On a stormy night a week after Madeline’s death, the narrator is unable to sleep and finally decides to get up and get dressed. Roderick enters the narrator’s bedroom in an agitated state.

Detailed explanation-5: -At the very end of the story, the two siblings die in each other’s arms. As Madeline falls forward onto her brother, she brings him – and the Usher family bloodline – to the ground.