When talking from a perspective of a zealot, imagination overcomes reason when believing that devils and angels are somewhere here in this world. But never believed that they can turn into spirits and kill us. Imagination can overpower reason when a person has a mental disorder. Roderick is not able to distinguish between imagination and reality. He goes to the extreme of ignoring the screamings of his sister whom he buried alive thinking it is the voices inside his head.
The death of his sister Madeline leaves Roderic lonely. Now he feels that the crack is widened as the twins are separated. He starts feeling the similarity between himself and the environment. One day he knocks on the narrator's door and he seems to have a “restrained hysteria” in his behavior. This behavior coincides with the stormy night outside.” wildly singular in its terror and beauty”.
The imagination overcomes reason when in the Fall of the House of Usher the sister comes out of the grave and kills her own brother. In the house is taken over, I think it could be the spirits of the ancestors. I think overcoming imagination is mental instability Whatever you imagine you think is real. Like the final destination where the teenagers die in their dreams. But when they wake up all the situations happen all over again. Which is what I think the writers were going through.
Fall of the House of Usher gave me a bit of chill and fright. The scene where the sister comes out of the grave and attacks her brother is what was terrifying about it. It just shook how unexpectedly she came from the door and then kills her own brother. The picture is what made me appall showing how she looked coming out of the dead. That gives me an image of how the story was flowing. I feel like they could have shown an image of the dead brother and the house breaking down which explains how everything happens. The way Edgar Allan Poe describes the story is also what hit my mind. Before looking at the Gothic picture, I was able to imagine the same girl with a white dress and flowing hair which is an appearance in any horror movie and book, which is what hit me.
While reading House taken over. I was confused at first. Then getting into it the more I was able to understand the situation. It reminds me of the film Breaking in. A story based on the same situation about how a family is trying to break out of their house. House taken over has a similar situation except the movie is set in modern times. I still think that the sister and brother may have a mental disorder. Maybe there wasn’t anybody in the house. They both are siblings. Which means they share the same genes. It could be that this is a crazy family problem. Maybe there could have also been a psycho in the house. But I think that Julio Cortázar may have had a dream or imagination related to the situation happening in the House taken over.