AMERICAN LITERATURE
ELIZABETHAN ERA
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Question
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The narrator and Roderick bury Madeline alive in a stone tomb beneath the mansion.
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The narrator and Roderick drown Madeline in the tarn next to the mansion.
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Roderick and Madeline escape the house via an underground tunnel.
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The narrator and Roderick become trapped in catacombs beneath the mansion.
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Detailed explanation-1: -He looks extremely pale and ill. His lustrous, silken hair has grown wildly and floats about its face. His nose is described as delicate, albeit with unusually large nostrils. The narrator is utterly shocked and amazed at how much Roderick has changed since childhood.
Detailed explanation-2: -what do Roderick’s paintings and music seem to express? an interest in grotesque stuff, and death.
Detailed explanation-3: -Roderick Usher is nervous, fearful and reclusive. He is also superstitious. However, he is aware of his ailments and eccentricities and is able to seek help by talking to his friend and getting his feelings out through art and music. But when the narrator reads to him, he can fall into an odd trance-like state.
Detailed explanation-4: -For a time the narrator comforts Roderick by reading and painting with him: one of Usher’s painting is described as follows: “A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white, and without interruption or device.