What Is The Allegory In The Fall Of The House Of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher is a tale about a sickly man, Roderick who reaches out to his childhood best friend to come and help. When the narrator arrives to the house he notices that it is a very gloomy area and the house itself looked very sick. He goes in and tries to lighten the mood of Roderick and make him feel better but nothing is working. Roderick has a twin sister named Madeline who has also fallen very ill and the has Roderick feeling down as well. Later, Madeline dies and Roderick and the narrator bury her under the house so nobody can examine her body. Roderick and the narrator are in a room and Roderick is reading a book and hearing things as he reads that aren’t just in his imagination. The narrator thinks that it is Madeline and that she wasn’t really dead when they buried her. The noises are Madeline trying to get out. Something opens the door and it is Madeline.
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The id is basically acting like a child all the time, having no sense of conscience. Madeline Usher is a figment of Roderick and the narrator’s mind. She is the doppelganger of Roderick who is the ego. Madeline on the other hand is the representation of the id version of Roderick, but again is only a figment of imagination. This is why the narrator never sees Madeline and never interacts with her during his stay. This is also how she comes back from the dead, because she was never living in the first place. Also, you could blame Roderick's death on Madeline because of her id like desire to live over his more realistic way about it. “Perhaps the eye of a scrutinizing observer might have discovered a barely perceptible fissure, which, extending from the roof of the building in front, made its way down the wall in a zigzag direction, until it became lost in the sullen waters of the tarn.”(5) The crack in the house shows the two halves of Roderick and a person can’t live in two pieces, which is what caused the death of the house and those who inhabit
The id is basically acting like a child all the time, having no sense of conscience. Madeline Usher is a figment of Roderick and the narrator’s mind. She is the doppelganger of Roderick who is the ego. Madeline on the other hand is the representation of the id version of Roderick, but again is only a figment of imagination. This is why the narrator never sees Madeline and never interacts with her during his stay. This is also how she comes back from the dead, because she was never living in the first place. Also, you could blame Roderick's death on Madeline because of her id like desire to live over his more realistic way about it. “Perhaps the eye of a scrutinizing observer might have discovered a barely perceptible fissure, which, extending from the roof of the building in front, made its way down the wall in a zigzag direction, until it became lost in the sullen waters of the tarn.”(5) The crack in the house shows the two halves of Roderick and a person can’t live in two pieces, which is what caused the death of the house and those who inhabit