![]() The Polish Izabella Miko shines in this film and I look forward to see her again. The screenplay develops the drama and romance of Jill in a very slow pace but the resolution when Jill finds the bonds in the Usher Family is rushed and confused. "The House of Usher" is another version of the short story of Edgar Allan Poe. Sooner she discovers the dark secret of the cursed family Usher. Along the days, Jill makes love with Rick and is haunted by the ghost of Maddy. The love is rekindled and Rick asks her to stay until the next weekend. When Jill is leaving the house, Rick invites her to have dinner and tells that Maddy and he have neurasthenia and is hyper-sensitive. Jill decides to travel to the House of Usher to attend the funeral of Maddy, who was her best friend in college and saved her life, and has a cold reception of the housekeeper Mrs. Out of the blue, Rick calls her to tell that Maddy has died. ![]() It seems more plausible that he invited the narrator as an audience – to watch the horrors that go down between him, his sister, and his house.The physiotherapeutic Jill Michaelson (Izabella Miko) has difficulties to date since her beloved Rick Usher (Austin Nichols) and his twin sister Maddy (Danielle McCarthy) left her without giving any explanation. But why reach out in the first place? Roderick knows that he’s going to die (or at least, he’s convinced himself of as much) – so why ask for help? Does he really think the narrator can do anything to help him? Not really, no. The fact that he turns to a distant friend is a testament to how very isolated Roderick is. Roderick reaches out to him for help because he doesn’t have any companions. He doesn’t know this guy that well – they were friends in childhood but haven’t seen each other in years. Another oddity to consider here is Roderick’s relationship with the narrator. ![]() Similarly, Roderick falls dead to the ground, and so does his house. It might be that Roderick’s very identity has somehow meshed with his house, much the same way his identity might be shared with his sister Madeline. We know that Roderick is a recluse to the extreme, so his existence is confined by the walls of his house. Many of his artistic compositions revolve around his house (or thinly veiled haunted mansions that act as stand-ins for his own). He tells the narrator that he thinks it is sentient or conscious, and that the house is largely responsible for his feeling so dark and gloomy. We can also think about the spooky connection that Roderick shares with his house. (Was he trying to end the Usher line once and forever? Tormented with guilt over the incest they may have committed together? Trying to kill himself by killing his doppelganger other half? (Doppelganger means ghostly double.)) In this scenario, Madeline comes back from the dead to get even with her brother for burying her alive. This could be for any number of reasons, and you’re welcome to speculate. It’s possible that Roderick knew Madeline was alive when he asked the narrator for help in entombing her. Another theory involves far less psychology and far more revenge. Alternatively, if Roderick may have been intentionally speeding up his own death by burying Madeline early, making her burial something of a suicide attempt. If this is true, we can see why Roderick cannot live while Madeline is dead, which explains why she comes back for him. See, e.g., Supernatural Horror in Literature by H.P. ![]() Those who approach “The Fall of the House of Usher” as a psychological tale posit that Roderick and Madeline are actually two halves of the same person: male/female, mental/physical, worldly/other-worldly, natural/supernatural. Another, less controversial interpretation is that they share a sort of extra-sensory bond. As we discuss in the “Sex” section, one interpretation is that they are incestuous. What exactly is going on there? Roderick claims that he and his twin share a special connection, one that others would scarcely understand. But let’s talk about this brother-sister connection. As we’ll talk about in Madeline’s “Character Analysis,” it’s even possible that Madeline is just a physical embodiment of Roderick’s fears. This story contains many suggestions of psychic and supernatural influences upon the feelings of the narrator and the nerves of. Madeline rushes upon him and he falls to the floor a corpse, too terrified to go on living. One conclusion to be drawn from the final scene is that Roderick dies of fear. And one day, he predicts, this affliction will kill him. By his own admission, he doesn’t so much fear any particular thing as he fears his own fear. While his sister is cataleptic and wasting away, Roderick is tormented by, to be quite honest, his own fear. While parts of his affliction seem to manifest themselves physically, in his overly-acute senses, his illness is primarily a mental one.
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