... no resemblance with the air of heaven. The narrator says, "It seemed to be and atmosphere of sorrow. An air of stern, deep, and irredeemable gloom hung over and pervaded all" (205). The vault in the mansion has been so long unopened that torches half smothered in its cruel atmosphere. When Roderick Usher is in the narrator's room and he throws back the large drapes an impulsive fury of an entering ... through the fissure that rapidly opens and a fierce wind blows up the whole mansion, and the deep, dark tarn closes abruptly without a sound over the remains of the House of Usher. The set...

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... sound" from the massive iron door also contributes to the terror effect. Such noises are associated with moments of panic and fright. As Roderick Usher and the Narrator view the face of the vault's tenant it leaves one to believe that the entombment of Madeline Usher is in a sense dreadful, freakishly odd, and gloomy. To add, the storms and natural phenomena occurring in the story appertain to the sensation of terror. The Narrator describes "The impetuous fury ... panels" are thrown slowly back and the figure of Madeline Usher is revealed, that the terror in the story reaches its climax...

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... that does not realize that his fear is taking over his entire body and mind, and murders an innocent man just for a sense of a diabolic presence. Thereafter, he tries to hide his crime, but finally his panic reveals the result of his fury. Although he took great safety measure to hide the old man's body, his panicky mind does not realize that his fear makes ... him listen to all kinds of voices and sounds and takes him to commit the wrong. The narrator describes himself as a "dreadfully nervous" (1) person. His opening statement does ... not a groan of pain or of grief - oh no! It was ...

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