LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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to avoid the doctors stealing her body
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he was too weak to go to the burial plot
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to keep her close by, even in death
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none of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -He wants to keep her in the house because he fears that the doctors might dig up her body for scientific examination, since her disease was so strange to them. The narrator helps Roderick put the body in the tomb, and he notes that Madeline has rosy cheeks, as some do after death.
Detailed explanation-2: -Madeline, who has a history of falling into deathlike states, is deliberately buried alive by Roderick in an attempt to wipe out the evil Usher line. When she emerges from her coffin, she has gone mad and attacks both Roderick and her fiancé.
Detailed explanation-3: -What could Madeline’s Vault symbolize? It could represent the mind. How does the place and nature of Madeline’s burial contribute to the meaning of the story? It has to do with the way Madeline was carried down through the chamber to the vault.
Detailed explanation-4: -Roderick buries his sister underneath the house in a vault . He chooses this location because he is afraid his sister will be unburied by doctors to be experimented on because of her mysterious illness. Roderick reacts by becoming more mad and seems more lost without her. A trist is a meeting.
Detailed explanation-5: -Family identity is a theme in ‘’The Fall of the House of Usher. ‘’ Roderick prides himself on his family identity, the Usher mansion seems intertwined with the family identity, and all this ends when the mansion and the two only surviving members of the family perish at the end.