LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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During a storm, the tarn surrounding the house rises until the house is flooded and destroyed
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During a storm a fissure in the house widens until the house collapses into the ground, disappearing
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During a storm, Usher madly rushes about the house striking the house until it collapses
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During a storm Roderick and Madeline fight so madly that they cause the collapse of the house.
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Detailed explanation-1: -With a moan, she falls on her brother, and, by the time they hit the floor, both Roderick and Madeline are dead. The narrator thereupon flees in terror. Outside, he looks back just in time to see the house split in two and collapse.
Detailed explanation-2: -In this case, both the narrator and Roderick experience a sense of fear, with the storm symbolizing Roderick’s internal mental turmoil. The storm also symbolizes the culmination of Roderick’s close, most likely incestuous, relationship with his twin sister Madeline.
Detailed explanation-3: -The narrator then runs from the house, and, as he does, he notices a flash of moonlight behind him. He turns back in time to see the moon shining through the suddenly widened crack in the house. As he watches, the House of Usher splits in two and the fragments sink away into the lake.
Detailed explanation-4: -The title refers not just to the literal fall of the physical house, but the metaphorical fall of the Usher family. The narrator revealed that Roderick and his sister were the last two alive in the family, so when they die, so dies the whole family. This decline, too, is foreshadowed in the text.