She also learns that her sister falsifies test results by pumping the chimps with adrenaline and ruthlessly dumping them after they die during trials. After crossing paths with Verna, the symbol of death herself, Camille discovers that Victorine tortures chimpanzees by splitting their chests open and fitting experimental cardiac devices to their hearts. As the story ends, the ball's attendees meet the same fate as the ones in Prospero's rave, symbolizing how, regardless of power and influence, no one can escape mortality.ĭetermined to find the Usher family informant in The Fall of the House of Usher, Camille Usher visits her sister Victorine's animal lab. However, things get grim when a mysterious red-masked figure like Verna arrives at the castle. The young Usher's grotesque death and storyline are based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story, The Masque of Red Death, in which a wealthy prince named Prospero throws a masquerade ball in his castle while his kingdom is ravaged by a plague. To his surprise, acid comes out of the sprinklers, burning and killing everyone except Morelle, the guards, and the bartenders. Prospero, however, goes ahead with his plan and makes it rain in his rave. Before he turns on the sprinklers, Verna warns him to back off. Seeing it as an opportunity to make his party more fascinating, Prospero connects the tanks to the water sprinklers in his factory. Prospero also presumes that the storage tanks above the disused factory have water in them. Desperate to show what he is capable of, Prospero hosts a masque rave at one of his father's company's abandoned facilities. To his dismay, Roderick looks down on his idea and IQ for running a business. In a desperate attempt to prove his worth to his father, Prospero Usher sets out to start a nightclub business. By recalling how his mother was dearer to his " soul than its soul-life," the author expresses how his mother's early demise affected him, just like Roderick recalls his mother's tragic death in the show's opening episode. Given how Eliza, like Edgar Allan Poe's mother, dies early in the Netflix horror series, her narrative also seems to be inspired by the author's poem To My Mother. In the short story, The Premature Burial, Edgar Allan Poe explores his fears of being buried alive by highlighting the narrator's obsession with taking all the provisions in the world to ensure he is dead before he gets buried. Eliza's kids, Roderick and Madeline, accidentally bury her alive, a common theme in Edgar Allan Poe's works. Although the series initially does not reveal what was happening to her, Roderick Usher later reveals she had a disease called CADASIL (also known as cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy). As a result, she refuses to take treatment for her illness. In the series, Eliza's health suddenly deteriorates, but her faith in god never dwindles. Eliza Usher in The Fall of the House of Usher is named after Edgar Allan Poe's mother, Eliza Poe.
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