LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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the doctor injected him with a lethal poison
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He had eaten a bad batch of food from the market
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The house and the tarn were somehow making him sick
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His sister was a zombie and was making him one too
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Detailed explanation-1: -Eventually, the narrator heads inside to see his friend. Roderick indeed appears to be a sick man. He suffers from an “acuteness of the senses, ” or hyper-sensitivity to light, sound, taste, and tactile sensations; he feels that he will die of the fear he feels.
Detailed explanation-2: -Madeline soon dies, and Roderick decides to bury her temporarily in the tombs below the house. 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.
Detailed explanation-3: -When the narrator sees Roderick Usher, he is shocked at the change in his old friend. Never before has he seen a person who looks so much like a corpse with a “cadaverousness of complexion.” Death is in the air; the first meeting prepares us for the untimely and ghastly death of Roderick Usher later in the story.
Detailed explanation-4: -The main theme is fear. Fear is the feeling people get with being extremely afraid. Poe uses fear that Roderick feels in the story to reveal that it cause more harm if you fear something. Also, it can cause the fear to come true because you are focusing on it so much.