The Importance Of Stessance In Poe's The House Of Usher

The relationship between Roderick and his twin sister Madeline is a very dull and dark. While, Roderick is becoming paranoid and miserable in his own state of mind, Madeline is trying to get revenge on her twin brother. “The letter tells of an illness of body and mind suffered by the last heir in the ancient line of Usher, and although the letter strangely fills him with dread, the visitor feels that he must go to his former friend” (Neilson). Since, Roderick doesn’t want to face the fact that he isn’t ill but mentally sick from all of the paranoia going on in The House of Usher he invites his childhood best friend over to stay with him and Madeline for a couple of days. When the narrator gets to the House of Usher he automatically senses that …show more content…
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With these words coming out of Roderick’s mouth there is no doubt that he tried to kill his twin sister. “By burying her, he splits himself off from actual life. Physical life is not so easily suppressed, however, and Madeline returns from her underground tomb to unite her dying body with Roderick’s idealized spirit”(Mustafa).Burying Madeline alive is a reason that I believe that Roderick tried to kill his twin sister because, you can’t bury someone alive unless you want them to suffocate to death and that’s what Roderick basically did. Of course every story has it’s themes and symbols The Fall of the House of Usher has a couple of themes and symbols presented throughout the story. A theme presented in The Fall of the House of Usher is depression. No matter what Poe always adds something to the story describing it as dark and making the reader create a depressing image in their mind. “A valet, of stealthy step, thence conducted me, in silence, through many dark and intricate passages in my progress to the studio of his master”(Poe). Poe hints to the reader that the house might also be dark and in silence because the owner is the same way. With an utter depression of soul which I