In the beginning, the idea of imperfection is introduced with Aylmer’s remark about Georgiana’s birthmark and the cruelness of Nature, “It was the fatal flaw of humanity which Nature, in one shape or another, stamps ineffaceably on all her productions, either to imply that they are temporary and finite, or that their perfection must be wrought by toil and pain” (646). Throughout the entire short story, there is a constant tension between the world that was created, and the parts Aylmer perceives to be imperfect and attempts to alter them.
As the story continues, Georgiana learns about Aylmer’s failed experiments in his journal entries, “Much as he had accomplished, she could not but observe that his most splendid successes were almost invariably …show more content…
Aylmer—dearest Aylmer—I am dying!” (656). As it suggested in the beginning of the story, Georgiana needs to have this imperfection to walk on worldly grounds, and once the birthmark disappeared, she passed onto a higher plane of existence where perfect could exist.
In “The Fall of the House of Usher”, Poe uses numerous symbols and allegories when he describes the house and family of Usher. The name “Usher” itself is ironic because an usher is someone who leads others to their seats. In this case, instead of being shown where to sit, Roderick brought himself to his own demise by staying in the house he knows is slowly eating away at his sanity. When the narrator arrives, the last male in the bloodline is already in a horrible mental and physical state, which Roderick blames on the house and his family’s dark past.
Another nail in the coffin is a fitting cliché for this story because years of worry and generations of twisted family history has ended the House of Usher when it crumbled down and became the final resting place for the Usher twins. During his visit, the narrator witnesses “the last three nails” drove into the Usher name; the condition and aura of the house, Madeline’s illness and death, and her “return from the …show more content…
She dies only days after the narrator arrives and he it is then when he notices the uncanny resemblance between the two and realizes that they are twins. When Poe introduces the concept of the Usher siblings being twins, it opens another layer of how and why Roderick has anxiety. It is believed that twins have a special bond that can supposedly let them feel each other’s pain. Knowing this, Madeline’s death is a hard blow to Roderick’s mentality, and is left to handle his uncontrollable spike of fear, “[T]here was a species of mad hilarity in his eyes—an evidently restrained hysteria in his whole demeanor” (711).
The event that ended the Usher’s was Madeline’s return from the vaults. Madeline’s physical death coincides with the collapse of both Roderick’s sanity and the Ushers’ mansion because of the shock it brought Roderick. Just as Roderick predicted, he was scared to death and “[A] victim to the terrors he had dreaded” (714).
Death came to these two stories’ central characters in very different fashions; one driven by the desire of not being good enough based on another’s opinion, and the other brought it upon themselves. The road and death of perfection only lasted a moment while fear drug out the miserable process for
As the story continues, Georgiana learns about Aylmer’s failed experiments in his journal entries, “Much as he had accomplished, she could not but observe that his most splendid successes were almost invariably …show more content…
Aylmer—dearest Aylmer—I am dying!” (656). As it suggested in the beginning of the story, Georgiana needs to have this imperfection to walk on worldly grounds, and once the birthmark disappeared, she passed onto a higher plane of existence where perfect could exist.
In “The Fall of the House of Usher”, Poe uses numerous symbols and allegories when he describes the house and family of Usher. The name “Usher” itself is ironic because an usher is someone who leads others to their seats. In this case, instead of being shown where to sit, Roderick brought himself to his own demise by staying in the house he knows is slowly eating away at his sanity. When the narrator arrives, the last male in the bloodline is already in a horrible mental and physical state, which Roderick blames on the house and his family’s dark past.
Another nail in the coffin is a fitting cliché for this story because years of worry and generations of twisted family history has ended the House of Usher when it crumbled down and became the final resting place for the Usher twins. During his visit, the narrator witnesses “the last three nails” drove into the Usher name; the condition and aura of the house, Madeline’s illness and death, and her “return from the …show more content…
She dies only days after the narrator arrives and he it is then when he notices the uncanny resemblance between the two and realizes that they are twins. When Poe introduces the concept of the Usher siblings being twins, it opens another layer of how and why Roderick has anxiety. It is believed that twins have a special bond that can supposedly let them feel each other’s pain. Knowing this, Madeline’s death is a hard blow to Roderick’s mentality, and is left to handle his uncontrollable spike of fear, “[T]here was a species of mad hilarity in his eyes—an evidently restrained hysteria in his whole demeanor” (711).
The event that ended the Usher’s was Madeline’s return from the vaults. Madeline’s physical death coincides with the collapse of both Roderick’s sanity and the Ushers’ mansion because of the shock it brought Roderick. Just as Roderick predicted, he was scared to death and “[A] victim to the terrors he had dreaded” (714).
Death came to these two stories’ central characters in very different fashions; one driven by the desire of not being good enough based on another’s opinion, and the other brought it upon themselves. The road and death of perfection only lasted a moment while fear drug out the miserable process for