Edgar Allan Poe Adjectives

Edgar Allan Poe, with the use adjectives makes a more effective description of the house than the one presented in the movie. In the literary text, Edgar Allan Poe, creates through a detailed description of the house a gothic mood in the story that provides a gloomy atmosphere in the plot, for instance, the narrator says “a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit” (Poe 1), therefore, the narrator assumes that the house itself triggers a sense of sadness that invades anyone who steps into it. Furthermore, Edgar Allan Poe meticulously chooses adjectives that are effective enough to get the audience into a murky atmosphere; for example, he describes the house by saying “bleak walls” “vacant eye-like windows” “rank sedges” “white trunks of decayed trees” (1), this description is what sets the gothic theme in the story and its effectiveness is clearly stated by the narrator when he confesses “an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation” (1), therefore, the narrator regards that the central goal of the story is creating a gothic mood.
For example, even though in the movie some strange events occur, the narrator doe not seem to be affected by them and he never gets frightened by the secrets of the house as in Edgar’s Allan Poe literary text, in fact, he says “it´s only a house”. Moreover, another essential aspect in the literary text is the feelings the house creates on the narrator, for example, the narrator tells how he is affected by the grim atmosphere of the house when he states “I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow” (3), through the narrator’s testimony readers know how oppressing is for him to stay in the