How Is Edgar Allan Poe Similar To The Masque Of The Red Death

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Edgar Allan Poe stories, “The Fall of the House of Usher” “The Masque of The Red Death” “the Cask of Amontillado” and the pome “Alone” all have similarities such as death, fear and very dark setting. The reason Poe’s stories are similar is because he writes about his own life. Some of his stories are based off his own fears, and some of his stories are about is fears after his wife dies.

The setting in all of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are similar because there all dark and gloomy. In “The Fall of The House of Usher” Poe writes “DURING the whole of dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens” to show a dark setting. The setting in “The Masque of The Red Death” Poe
Poe shows the mood in the pome “Alone by saying “then-in my childhood-in the dawn of most stormy life-was drawn from every depth of good and ill the mystery which binds me still.” Poe creates mood in the story “The Cask of Amontillado” by saying “the niter I said see it increases it hangs like moss upon the vaults. We live below the river’s bed. The drops of moisture trickle among the bones.” This mood creates lots of depression. In the story “the Masque of The Red Death” Poe describes the mood by writing “no pestilence had ever been so faster or so hideous blood was its avatar and its seals the redness and horror of blood.” This quote describes the mood by talking about blood and disease. The story “The Fall of House of Usher” Poe says “with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.” All of these stories have a mood because there all about depression and
In the pome “Alone” Poe shows the conflict of death by saying “from the thunder, and the storm and the cloud that from when the heist of heaven was blue of a demon in my view” this shows the conflict of the poem “Alone”. In the story “The Fall of House of Usher” Poe uses death to show conflict” I struggled to reason off the nervousness which had dominion over me” this shows that he was fear full of Madaline death. In the story “The cask of Amontillado” Poe shows the conflict when Montresor traps fortunate in the catacombs “unsheathing my rapper I began to grope with it about the recess I but the thought of an instant reassured me” this shows how Montresor is afraid of killing Fortunato. In the story “The Masque of The Red Death” Poe shows the conflicted by saying “and one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed hall of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall” this is how Poe shows Conflicts by using