In “The Fall of The House of Usher” Edgar Allan Poe utilizes many parallels between Roderick, Madeline, and the House of Usher. Poe uses many parallels some of these being fissures, similarities in style, and even deaths. First of all, the fissure is the widest parallel across the story, “extending from the roof of the building in front… made its way down the wall in a zigzag direction” (Poe 323). Moreover, the fissure has many explanations, one being, the main character and his sister were having an intimate relationship which is quoted in the story as “collateral issue” (Poe 323). Thereafter leading the building “rushing asunder… silently over the fragments of the ‘House of Usher’” the fragments being Roderick Usher and his sister Madeline after their abrupt demise (Poe 333).
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Accordingly, the narrator quotes “entire family lay in the direct line of descent ” (Poe 323). Therefore creating the problems seen in Roderick and Madeline Usher, through hereditary. Additionally Roderick and Madeline’s death are the same “final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse and a victim of death” (Poe 333). Lastly, Roderick and the house of Usher are used as an eternal parallel for the whole story. Thereupon the house of Usher is described as “bleak walls… vacant eyelike windows… black and lurid tarn… fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled webwork from the eaves” (Poe 322-323). In contrast Roderick Usher is characterized as “cadaverousness of complexion… an eye large, liquid, and luminous… hair of a more than weblike softness and tenuity” (Poe 324). By comparison the house of Usher and Roderick Usher are quite similar, there complexion “bleak” and their eyes or windows “vacant… lurid”, even more so their hair or simply the fungi “weblike” (Poe 322-324). Which is why the house, Roderick, and Madeline are all in some way a
Accordingly, the narrator quotes “entire family lay in the direct line of descent ” (Poe 323). Therefore creating the problems seen in Roderick and Madeline Usher, through hereditary. Additionally Roderick and Madeline’s death are the same “final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse and a victim of death” (Poe 333). Lastly, Roderick and the house of Usher are used as an eternal parallel for the whole story. Thereupon the house of Usher is described as “bleak walls… vacant eyelike windows… black and lurid tarn… fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled webwork from the eaves” (Poe 322-323). In contrast Roderick Usher is characterized as “cadaverousness of complexion… an eye large, liquid, and luminous… hair of a more than weblike softness and tenuity” (Poe 324). By comparison the house of Usher and Roderick Usher are quite similar, there complexion “bleak” and their eyes or windows “vacant… lurid”, even more so their hair or simply the fungi “weblike” (Poe 322-324). Which is why the house, Roderick, and Madeline are all in some way a