Rough Draft In the three short stories, “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe, “Prey” by Richard Matheson, and “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving, all partake in the use of grotesqueness and violence. All of the Gothic Elements in the short stories relate back to the story’s main idea or purpose of the story. Also it highlights the theme the author is attempting to intertwine with the story to the reader. To start off, in “The Black Cat”, Poe implements an abundant amount of violence
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Murder is never tolerable, no matter the motive. In the short story “The Cask of Amontillado,” Montresor, the narrator of the story, explains that a friend, named Fortunato, had wronged him many times. In response to this, Montresor lures Fortunato into the catacombs in promise of an expensive wine, but instead murders him. Montresor’s actions in the story are not justified, as Fortunato couldn’t have done anything that terrible, his actions were morally wrong and illegal, and there are multiple
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Burroughs’ style is full of rhetorical devices such as figurative language, humor, and forthright diction. One device that he uses often is imagery. He portrays the horror of his youth through rich descriptions of everything from the distressed state of a house to certain erratic characters. One example of this is when Augusten first enters the home of the Finches, the chaotic and often manic family who he was forced to live with and adjust to. “The house smelled like wet dog and something else.
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There are quite many similarities between these two short stories that Edgar Allen Poe created, with little differences. The main differences are the story itself, the characters, and the setting. However the stories are also similar; a man gets irritated by something, he acts irrationally towards it and kills it, and it becomes involved the supernatural and ends up making the man get caught by the police. This leads to one of the few differences in the stories and that is that in “The Black Cat
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Edgar Allen Poe was obsessed with cats and often wrote with a cat on his shoulder. One of his quotes where “I wish i could write as mysterious as a cat”(BrainyQuote.com). Poe was in the army and was a sergeant major until he was discharged. In 1848 after his wife’s death in 1847, Poe attempted to commit suicide by ingesting opiates. Due to the horrific experiences in his life had a lot to do with his writing style. Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts, January 19,1809 (Poets
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“The Fall of the House of Usher” is a short story of Gothic horror written in first person point of view. The Narrator was a friend with Roderick, which they both met at camp many years ago. The Narrator came to a house alone with his horse where he got invited by his friend Roderick. Roderick was in a situation where he would be a different person from before and would be acting strange, since the narrator saw him. Roderick had a twin sister named Madeline. Madeline never knew the narrator as much
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Developed by Sigmund Freud, psychoanalytic criticism is used in literature to reveal the motives, motifs, and themes in a work of literature. This analysis focuses on the inner workings of the human mind. The short story, “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe, depicts Freud’s conclusion of psychoanalytic criticism. The sole motive for the killing of Fortunato is due to Montresor’s projection of his own failures. To Montresor, Fortunato represents his own downfalls and the way his life used
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Once they are further into the catacombs Montressor again addresses the spider webs saying, “See, it increases. It hangs like moss upon the vaults” (Poe 52). Poe has Montressor bring up the webs again to foreshadow that he has a trap in place. The webs also increase the closer they go into the catacombs to symbolize that they’re getting closer to Montressor’s trap. One of the most obvious symbols that Poe incorporates into this story is the name of the Characters. Fortunato’s name literally means
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With every rung Tig got on the Building C ladder. The aggressors had quit shooting after the third mortar struck the rooftop. Tig jumped over the parapet and ducked low as he checked out the darkened rooftop. The primary man Tig spotted was Dave Ubben. Tig knelt by Ubben and got the weapon, stressed that while in stun and agony the DS operators may mistake Tig for somebody who should have been shot. Tog saw the Ubben had endured significant wounds to one side leg and genuine injuries to one side
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Harper Lee was an American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird, but once said “You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view.” The point of view in the story The Doll’s House was a third person omniscient point of view. The story told in a different point of view would change the original story. One alternative point of view could be a first person point of view. Perspective can change the story in many ways. The current effect of the current
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