The Fall of the House of Usher?

Answer 1

The Fall of the House of Usher is the story of Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher and Roderick's friend who narrates. The friend arrives at Roderick's request because of an illness Usher is experiencing. Roderick tells his friend that Madeline, his sister, is also sick. Madeline later dies and Roderick asks the narrator's help to place her in a tomb inside the house until she's buried permanently. One stormy night while his friend is reading to him, Usher reveals that his sister is alive and trying to get out of the tomb. Strange noises are heard and Madeline breaks into the room falling to the floor with Roderick, both dead. The friend flees as the house breaks in two and collapses.

Answer 2

"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a gothic short story written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839. It tells the story of a narrator who visits his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, in his decaying mansion. As the story progresses, supernatural events unfold, leading to the destruction of both the house and the Usher family. The tale explores themes of madness, isolation, and the power of fear.

Answer 3

The main character is the narrator, who is never named in the story. Poe used unnamed narrators in several of his stories, most notably, The Tell-tale Heart. Roderick Usher is not the main character even though the story is about the end of his family line, because the story actually revolves around the experiences of the narrator as he tells the story.

Answer 4

The "helpless victim" is Madeline Usher, the twin sister of Roderick Usher, because she was buried alive. She was unable to resist the entombment because she suffers from bouts of catalepsy, where she is unable to move. Roderick Usher tells the narrator that she has died and it appears so to the narrator, so they put her into a coffin and entomb her in the family vault in the basement.

The narrator believes she is dead but remarks that her face still has a faint blush and a lingering smile. Over the next few days, the narrator hears noises from the basement but does nothing about it. In time he realizes that they have buried her alive. She had been in the grip of a cataleptic seizure which made it impossible for her to resist the burial. That explains why she still had a blush to her face.

Thus, Madeline was helpless to avoid being victimized by Roderick Usher entombing her while she was still alive.

Answer 5

The story doesn't have an antagonist in the strict sense.

The only character he does something bad is Roderick Usher,

when he dares not speak even though he knows that his sister

has been entombed alive.

The antagonist in the story is Roderick Usher. The term "antagonist" when applied to a story does not necessarily mean someone who is antagonizing or doing something evil. The antagonist is simply the character against whom the protagonist struggles or just interacts. The narrator is the protagonist, sicne he is the main character and all conflicts revolve around him and in his mind and proceed from Roderick's actions.

Answer 6

in the fall of the house of usher, which word best decribes the single effect created by the opening description of the house

Answer 7

The protagonist is the visitor whom we never know the name of. The Antagonist is Roderick Usher.

Answer 8

i wouold say the protagonist is the Usher because he is the victim of the house.

Answer 9

He has no name. The narrator was Roderick's companion in boyhood, one day the narrator got letter in the mail and Roderick asked him if he would come visit.

Answer 10

The narrator had no name because the story was in first person. so he used "I".