Why Was The House Of Usher Doomed To Fall?
Why was the house of Usher doomed to fall?
141210401 邓瑶菡 Although the end of the Fall of the House of Usher illustrated a scene that the house fell apart all of sudden, for a craftsman like Poe who declare “… no word should be used which does not contribute to the ‘pre-established’ design of the work”(textbook 110) as one of his theories for writing short stories, examining some details could reverse of the impression that this final collapse was only an accident occurred naturally. In fact, there were many hints foreshadowing this ending, implying the house was doomed to fall no matter what. Evidently, the following three were important factors related to the final collapse: the horrific environment of the house of Usher, the weirdness of …show more content…
Hence, those fungi were like sponges absorbing strength from the house of Usher, trapping people living inside in a vicious circle as the more the fungus spread around the house, the more difficult and disinclined people will be to clean them up. Since the strength of the house of Usher was limited and no other object inside and outside it was animated enough to compensate its loss, it was predictable that the house irreversibly run “dry” and collapsed some …show more content…
The “striking similitude” between their faces, as the narrator pointed out, brought up “that sympathies of a scarcely intelligible nature had always existed between them.” This connection between them was vividly portrayed when Roderick shouted out Lady Madeline’s arrival even before she really entered their room in a ghost form. Hence, it can be believed that Roderick can feel his sister in some supernatural way, and whatever she was living or dead, he can still sympathize with her. Because of that, in the final scene, where Madeline violently threw herself to her brother, it was a safe guess that Roderick had already known it all before. In other words, Roderick, who had been across the line of madness at that time, found that he could not reject his tragic fate and thus waited for the arrival of his sister to end his life. As the last supporting pillar of the house of Usher gave up the hope to live and turned to dust and ashes, the final destruction soon came to the
141210401 邓瑶菡 Although the end of the Fall of the House of Usher illustrated a scene that the house fell apart all of sudden, for a craftsman like Poe who declare “… no word should be used which does not contribute to the ‘pre-established’ design of the work”(textbook 110) as one of his theories for writing short stories, examining some details could reverse of the impression that this final collapse was only an accident occurred naturally. In fact, there were many hints foreshadowing this ending, implying the house was doomed to fall no matter what. Evidently, the following three were important factors related to the final collapse: the horrific environment of the house of Usher, the weirdness of …show more content…
Hence, those fungi were like sponges absorbing strength from the house of Usher, trapping people living inside in a vicious circle as the more the fungus spread around the house, the more difficult and disinclined people will be to clean them up. Since the strength of the house of Usher was limited and no other object inside and outside it was animated enough to compensate its loss, it was predictable that the house irreversibly run “dry” and collapsed some …show more content…
The “striking similitude” between their faces, as the narrator pointed out, brought up “that sympathies of a scarcely intelligible nature had always existed between them.” This connection between them was vividly portrayed when Roderick shouted out Lady Madeline’s arrival even before she really entered their room in a ghost form. Hence, it can be believed that Roderick can feel his sister in some supernatural way, and whatever she was living or dead, he can still sympathize with her. Because of that, in the final scene, where Madeline violently threw herself to her brother, it was a safe guess that Roderick had already known it all before. In other words, Roderick, who had been across the line of madness at that time, found that he could not reject his tragic fate and thus waited for the arrival of his sister to end his life. As the last supporting pillar of the house of Usher gave up the hope to live and turned to dust and ashes, the final destruction soon came to the