Match the events from “the fall of the house of usher” to the plot points of freytag’s pyramid. exposition climax rising action falling action resolution madeline escapes from her tomb and attacks roderick in revenge. the narrator watches the house disintegrate and sink into the earth. the narrator flees the house when madeline attacks roderick. roderick tells the narrator that madeline is dead, and they bury her. the narrator arrives at the house on horseback.

The main themes of the play are: fate and free will with the inevitability of oracular predictions is a theme that often occurs in greek tragedies the conflict between the individual and the state similar to that in sophocles’ “antigone” and   people’s willingness to ignore painful truths both oedipus and jocasta clutch at unlikely details in order to avoiding facing up to the inceasingly apparent truth and sight and blindness the irony that the blind seer tiresius can actually “see” more clearly than the supposedly clear-eyed oedipus, who is in reality blind to the truth about his origins and his inadvertent crimes.