structure‚ type of narration‚ word choice‚ and imagery are the devices‚ with the help of which Poe creates and heightens the effect of terror and horror. Such works as ’The Cask of Amontillado’‚ ’MS Found in a Bottle’‚ and ’The Fall of the House of Usher’ serve as vivid examples of Poe’s sophisticated but very effective horror creating technique. The effect produced by the work on its reader largely depends on the genre of this work. It is no mere chance that Poe chooses the genre of a short story
Premium Edgar Allan Poe
reader to understand why this line would send shivers down a someone’s spine‚ or surrounding a soul with sadness and a melancholy feeling. Poe has‚ time and time again‚ shown mastery over gothic techniques. Be it family curses‚ such as The House of Usher‚ or Unreliable Narrators‚ with the Black Cat‚ to the grotesque and gloom of a human’s mind and soul‚ seen in the Pit and the Pendulum. Poe is‚ and always will be‚ the best in the business and the master of gothic storytelling and poetry. The Black
Premium Edgar Allan Poe Gothic fiction Unreliable narrator
symbolism and foreshadowing‚ creating mystery and allowing the reader to think of the true meaning of the story. For example in Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”‚
Premium Gothic fiction Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher
Gothic texts are distinguished by the conventions they explore. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole‚ The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe and Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridgem all create an atmosphere of mystery and suspense and highlight to cruel terrors and passions prevalent in Gothic texts. In atmosphere of gloom and terror can be conveyed through medieval setting and inexplicable occurances. In the Castle of Otranto‚ various events occur‚ which are completely arbitrary
Free Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher Gothic fiction
Poe’s short stories‚ "The Masque of the Red Death"‚ "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" are written in different view points. The view points used helps each story achieve its effect upon the reader. The third-person point of view‚ helps the reader to foreshadow all the events taking place. The first-person point of view‚ heightened the intensity of the story itself. If each stories’ view point were changed along with the narrators‚ then the effects intended upon the reader
Premium Narrative Fiction First-person narrative
to provoke a horror filled response from the reader through his diction and themes. Poe’s consistent use of dark and gloomy diction creates a mood of horror‚ dread‚ and menace in “The Fall of the House of Usher‚” “The Raven‚” and‚ “The Bells.” In the short story “The Fall of The House of Usher‚” Poe creates an apprehensive feeling about his story at the very beginning by relentlessly using dreadful diction. The narrator is walking through a country region where it was “dull‚ dark‚ and soundless”
Premium
The first story entitled The Cask of Amontillado has 2 characters One is Fortunato and the other is the executioner who comes Fortunato tricked leads to the catacombs where I had to try if the wine from a barrel was really Amontillado during Amitallado search of the executioner finishes drunk with some wine and chained to finally let him die like that. The second story titled hop-frog‚ Hop-Frog was the nickname they gave their jester‚ was a dwarf who had given gift to the king one of his generals
Premium The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe Short story
spectrum by developing a new genre of writing (detective fiction) as well as motivating modern day writers such as the famous Arthur Doyle and his Sherlock Holmes series. Edgar Allan Poe’s use of Destructive Transcendence in “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “Ligeia” conveys the idea of the physical world and the spiritual world conflicting on the outskirts of reality to unite as one through the use of insanity‚ symbolism‚ imagery‚ and diction. To begin with‚ the use of insanity in Poe’s works is
Premium Edgar Allan Poe Short story
meaning. My opinion is to agree with Logan Pearsall Smith’s quote. In the next two paragraphs I will discuss how the quotation pertains to the examples I have chosen in "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving‚ and "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe. In "The Minister’s Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne the example I chose was how the author used the veil to hide something on Mr. Hooper. The veil is a personal symbol that symbolically is hiding his private sins. The veil
Premium English-language films Writing Fiction
Edgar Allan Poe Poe’s family life was not one to be desired by others. He also had a strange personality‚ which caused him to write even stranger stories. One of these stories won him an award‚ and even further recognition. Although only one of his works received official recognition‚ his works will always stay in the minds of those who read them. Before Poe was born‚ his father left him and his mother. His mother died when he was still a small child. After he went into an orphanage for
Premium Edgar Allan Poe