story. It plays an even more important part as one of the most recognizable elements of traditional Gothic fiction. Traditional Gothic fiction settings include decrepit medieval castles in isolated and dreary locales, such as the one portrayed in Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher", in which an unnamed narrator visits two physically and mentally ailing siblings and discovers that something among them is horribly amiss. In this story, setting contributes greatly to the mood, creating
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Gothic writing essay In the works The Black Cat, by Edgar Allen Poe, A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner, and Prey, by Richard Matheson all exhibits the gothic elements of violence and revenge along with the main charters having psychological issues. A use of violence in the Gothic works The Black Cat, A Rose for Emily, and Prey, help to further establish the charters in the stories and add into the horror that makes them Gothic. An example of this in The Black Cat is when the main charter gets
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Some people consider Charles Baudelaire’s poetry to be vulgar, obscene and morbid, others admire the beauty in his artwork. Baudelaire has an extraordinary talent to describe love, life and death through symbols that usually may create disgust. His poem “A Carcass” depicts how Baudelaire and his loved one encounter a rotting corpse on a nice summer day. Even though it may not be the first thought of a person in this situation to find beauty and meaning in decomposition, that is exactly what Baudelaire
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In my opinion, the setting of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” is an essential tool to uncover the mood behind the story. Right away Poe jumps into descriptive detail: “During the whole of a dark, dull, soundless day… a singularly dreary tract of country.” The gloomy, overcast of the mist and fog that surround the House of Usher wash over the narrator which, in turn, seem to seep into the very depths of his soul. The narrator’s description of his surrounding as well as of the house
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In the short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” the narrator who is unnamed in the story, tells a tale of an old childhood friend by the name of Roderick Usher, who admits he has a mental disorder. The narrator does not really know much about his friend because they have not spoken in many years. Usher had reached out to the narrator in the form of a letter in request of help. From the beginning of the story, the narrator continuously signals as though the residence had been haunted or something
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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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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 to be––fortunate
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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 fortunate, happy, and blessed. This bit of symbolism that Poe has added to his story is ironic. It shows
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