In "The Fall of the House of Usher" Edgar Allen Poe uses the powe

r of the human imagination to create a mood of gloom and despair. When fantasy suppresses reality and the physical self, as in Roderick's case, what results is madness and mental death. Madeline's return and actual death reunites the twin natures of their single being, claiming Roderick as a "victim to terrors that he anticipated." The true focus of this story is the narrator's reaction to these strange events. "Even to look into the dark imagination where fantasy becomes reality is to evoke madness (Tom Clancy)." That is why Roderick twice called the narrator "Madman" in the final scene. The narrator already went to the hell of his mind and was able to escape from it and turns to see the House of Usher tumble into the abyss with the last of the clan.

During the course of the story the intellect (Roderick) tries to detach himself from his more physically oriented twin Madeline. This can be seen by the abrasions to his senses and the premature entombment of his twin sister. Living without Madeline (without the senses), Roderick's condition begin

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