Eulogy Of Roderick Wood

Margret Thatcher depicted the greatness of Ronald Reagan in all aspects of his life in a eulogy spoken at his funeral after his unfortunate passing in 2004. Her eulogy accurately describes the legacy of Reagan, his relationships with the American people, and his hardships throughout his presidency. Thatcher used a variety of rhetorical strategies to convey message, and her creative use of these strategies allowed for unison and proper tone within her speech.

Most times, anything abnormal or odd tend to be pushed under the rug. Edgar Allan Poe subtly brings attention to topics the are typically ignored. E. A. Poe had far from a perfect childhood. His father left when he was young and his mother died when he was three. Poe also seemed to have a lonely childhood after his parents were gone. He was separated from his relatives and didn’t appear to have many friends. He attended the army and after went into West Point. His academics there were well but he was eventually kicked out because of poor handlings of his duties. Before Poe died, he struggled with depression and a drinking problem. Some believe Poe’s tragic lifetime was the inspiration for some of his stories. Such as, “The Fall of the House of Usher”. A possible theory about this story is that Roderick and the Narrator were one in the same. This essay will discuss the possibility of them being the same through plot, characterization, and personification.

Roderick explained in the letter that he was feeling ill. The narrator tells us how only one member of his family has survived for many generations.

Ronald Reagan, the former 40th president of the United States died on June 5th of 2004. A couple of days later on the 11th, Margaret Thatcher the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, wrote an eulogy for Ronald Reagan. In this eulogy, Thatcher uses rhetorical strategies to convince her readers into believing what she states. She uses the strategies of parallelism, pathos and diction to get her message out and to help her reader receive it. And thus Thatcher can convince her readers into believing what she says.

One of Roderick's fears was death. He was from a well-known and honored family, and he and his sister were the last of the long line of Usher descendants. His sister, Madeline, had been fighting a severe and long-continued illness for quite some time, which had added to much of Roderick's gloom. " Her decease, would leave him the last of the ancient race of the Ushers." Roderick seemed not only to fear the death of his sister and ultimately of himself, but also the uncertainty of the future. "I dread the events of the future, not only in themselves, but in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial incident, which may operate upon this intolerable agitation of soul."

All these things put together and a few others help to connect the house to Roderick and Lady Madeline. When the narrator first sees Roderick after a long period of time, he thinks that he resembles that of a corpse. Then Roderick tells him the reason for his appearance, why he looks so bad. He said he had an illness that was a “morbid acuteness of the senses.” The word morbid, when used anywhere, has very strong meaning and it is of the negative type. He uses the word tortured when he is describing his eyesight and says that even the slightest sound is almost unbearable. Thinking about having all of these symptoms put together is a very bad picture to paint in your mind. His condition, in this case, is very comparable to that of the condition of the house.

Madness and insanity describes Roderick’s illness because one cannot know that a person is mad or insane without having several conversations with them. This connects back to the thesis when it says that looks can be deceiving. A person can look perfectly fine but can actually be completely insane. The House of Usher and Roderick may seem alright, but when looking deeper into the situation, there are more concerning problems than it seems. For example, Roderick’s friend needs to look deeper and not just focus on the person Roderick used to be. The outside of a person can be an allusion if you pretend that they still are the same person as they’ve always been.

In 2004 an elephant in the room was apparent as Margaret Thatcher was giving her eulogy for Ronald Reagan. During this time, the American people were dealing with the War on Terrorists. They had conflicting views on who should go and fight their battle. President George W. Bush had sent our men overseas to Iraq, and the citizens thought of this act as unfair. Margaret Thatcher, though not an American citizen, blended her feelings on this into her speech as though it were the real meaning behind her eulogy.

Former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher wrote a powerful eulogy for former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. In her eulogy, she highlighted his professional accomplishments and her relationship with former President Reagan, both as a leader and a friend. She lists descriptive examples of accomplishments that he achieved while being president. Thatcher used different types of figurative language and rhetorical strategies to make light of the difficult time.

Roderick Usher sends his childhood friend a letter, crying for company and good memories. As his friend passes the dark tarn and nears the House of Usher, all that is seen is a land of the dark and decaying. The Usher family within “The Fall of the House of Usher,” have lived in the house for generations, a house at one time filled “by good angels, (Being a) radiant palace-reared its head.”

Roderick Usher is a victim of circumstance. The House he has known his whole life seems to have turned against him. Poe

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On the night the narrator arrives, Roderick's sister Madeline finally passes away. Roderick is very disturbed by his sister's death. Roderick begins to go insane after the burial of his sister. Stricken with guilt, he starts to believe that she is still alive in her tomb. The narrator tries to calm Roderick by reading him a story entitled "Mad Twist." This story is very ironic to the situation that the narrator is resolving. "It was, however, the only book immediately at hand: and I indulged a vague hope that the excitement which now

From the very beginning of the story we realise that Roderick has no coherent personality. The author makes many an allusion to put the readers onto the right track. The fissure that the narrator first observes

The nature of their illnesses also reflect the gender roles of the era. While Roderick’s illness amplifies his senses, Madeline’s disease, described as “a settle apathy, a gradual wasting away of the person”, dampens hers, reducing her into an ‘barely-there’, almost ghostly, individual. Roderick is able to isolate himself from the outside world to spare him from the torture