LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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hunger pains
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a mental disease
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happiness
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sibling rivalry
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Detailed explanation-1: -According to Roderick, Madeline suffers from a cataleptic disease that has gradually limited her mobility. As Roderick talks about his sister’s illness, the narrator sees her pass through a distant part of the house. Shall dawn upon him, desolate!) Of the old time entombed.
Detailed explanation-2: -Roderick believes that he suffers from a genetic condition (what he calls ‘a family evil’) that causes him to become periodically hypersensitive, to the point of illness.
Detailed explanation-3: -The doppelganger motif undermines the separation between mind and body. Poe represents this intimate connectivity between mind and body by making Roderick and Madeline biological twins. When sickness afflicts one sibling, for example, it contagiously spreads to the other.