LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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dies, buried by her brother, rises from the dead to terrorize her brother
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appears to die, buried in vault alive, revives and forces her way to freedom scaring her brother to death before dying herself
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pretends to die, buried in vault, emerges from crypt and destroys the house
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nearly dies, recovers with the help of doctors, but is thrown in a cell by her brother
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following is the most accurate description of what happens to Madeline Usher in “The Fall of the House of Usher"? She appears to die, is mistakenly entombed, but then revives and forces her way to freedom before dying.
Detailed explanation-2: -In “The Fall of the House of Usher, ” Edgar Allan Poe uses Madeline as a symbol for the theme of madness.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The first thing the visitor notices as he rides up to his old school friend’s house is the “vacant and eye-like windows” (122) which unknowingly symbolizes to him and the rest of the world, the depression and emptiness that he will discover as he meets his friend he has not seen in years.
Detailed explanation-5: -The narrator is an enigmatic character. One way to explain his role is that the narrator’s job is simply to narrate the story. We don’t know his name, which is representative of us knowing nothing about him at all. He really only exists in relation to the Ushers, and that relation is primarily as an outsider.