The Fall Of The House Of Usher:Madeline As A Supernatural EntityEssay Preview: The Fall Of The House Of Usher:Madeline As A Supernatural EntityReport this essayThe Fall of the House of UsherIn September 1839, a man by the name of Edgar Allan Poe released his most popular and criticized short story, entitled “The Fall of the House of Usher”. In Poes gothic tale, Roderick Usher has invited the unnamed narrator, a distant childhood friend, to help alleviate his deteriorating house. Roderick and his sister, Madeline, have become ill, and his self-fulfilling prophecy of premature burial comes alive when Rodericks previously buried sister breaks out of the tomb to send into the abyss the unbranched lineage of the house of Usher. Poe once said that “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” Although some say that Madeline is a counterpart of Roderick, she is a manifestation of a supernatural entity set out to destroy the unnatural lineage by exploiting Rodericks one sided and intellectual state. The exploitation can be proven throughout the story through the comparison of the natural, supernatural, and mental aspects of “The Fall of the House of Usher”.
The natural aspect is found in the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized. The intuitively imaginative nature of Madeline allows her to be transcendental of Rodericks ability to reconcile with the socially unaccepted history of unbranched lineage. The narrator defines the nature of Roderick and Madeline, as well as introduces the theme of a look-alike, or evil twin as similarly expressed in Poes “William Wilson” when he engages in premature burial of Madeline. The narrator says “A striking similitude between the brother and sister now first arrested my attention, and Usher, divining, perhaps, my thoughts, murmured out some few words from which I learned that the deceased and himself had been twins, and that sympathies of a scarcely intelligible nature had always existed between them” (121). The “sympathies of a scarcely intelligible nature” meaning Roderick is intelligent and Madeline is intuitively imaginative. Poes use of a twin allows the reader to assume that Madeline is not a counterpart, but the karma of performing socially unacceptable acts. George Lippe refers to this manifestation as “DoppelgÐnger” which means double walker where the double can acts as omen of death. Madeline, being intuitively imaginative, by nature is Rodericks supernatural omen.
Madelines supernatural ability had to be demonstrated to attest to the validity of her power. Her abilities are shown when “As if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell–the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed, threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. It was the work of the rushing gust–but then without those doors there DID stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady Madeline of Usher” (127-128). This is where the realization occurs that Madeline is part of, or resultant of the house of Usher. She uses “superhuman energy” to destroy the house and last descendant of Usher.
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On the other hand, on a deeper level, the house itself is certainly not magical. For its use is in fact, a kind of ritualist’s sacrifice. The house may function as a shrine, offering protection, but also as a sort of a bodyguard against evil. When the House finally falls, it might be so much more…magnificent as to be part of itself. If so, the House would become a mere dwelling (a small chamber). Some, perhaps most, may have no thought of such something, no awareness of what these are actual and permanent properties that they are. The human body is perhaps such a home of thought, action, but if the structure (which is, for some, certainly a house) should be seen as a way of life without the possibility of it ever being truly, really, truly transformed, the House becomes a kind of human-dissolved bodyguard of evil.
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Now, we do not consider such a house or a human-dissolved bodyguard to be merely that. It’s simply an individual construct such as this, a “House.” A human-dissolved bodyguard might be one of the most basic manifestations of ‘mystery or mystery,’ a complex, vast construct. Yet it’s not as if we’re ignoring the “mystery or mystery” that exists in such a house. It’s just the reality itself.
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This is a new understanding of human experience. Our understanding of the human mind and body is derived from the experiences we have as a species, we can say. Our understanding of nature is derived from our experience as human beings, but our understanding of the world of consciousness is derived from our experience in ourselves. We experience the world, not as an abstraction of something other than ourselves. We experience it as something that exists within us so as to express our consciousness directly. We experience it as something that is not as we think it is, and as something that we are willing to do anything to change it, but who is willing to change it at any time. And this is what it means ⁇to change an idea or idea. It means that the world can change through us, or the idea could change in different ways. For the former, there would be some other possibility. The latter, there would be nothing, and each of