outlandish ideas. Close to two hundred years ago‚ the literature that Edgar Allan Poe created is still used and consistently analyzed to this day. Many of his life experiences and his thought process influenced how his works came to be. In The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe‚ Poe’s difficult early life‚ the terrifying events
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Horace Kephart was born in 1862 in Pennsylvania‚ but he spent much of his youth in Iowa. He had become the director of the Mercantile Library in St. Louis in Missouri. Also he became an expert in exploration‚ be outdoors and to study nature was one of his greatest passions. Kephart was married very young‚ but her marriage turned out to be very unhappy. He began drinking‚ he lost his job and his wife left him. In the end he had a nervous breakdown. He decided to start over a new life. He wanted to
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Stoker definitely performs a spectacular act of writing a tale that is meant to be scary and full of horror‚ and not just by his conflict or his tone‚ but more importantly‚ how he conveys the setting throughout the whole twenty-seven chapters within his classic novel. Reading this story‚ it’s very easy to tell why it is so widely studied and why it has been proclaimed a classic after such a long time. To one that has not yet cracked
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Gothicism is a genre of fiction that has been developed over its long history‚ beginning around 1764 by Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto‚ whose story contained almost every element of what is viewed today as a Gothic Tale. Most stories that are classified under the subgenre of gothic fiction involve many elements that create a sense of suspense or mystery‚ with features that develop a dark feeling or unsettling atmosphere and sometimes even overwrought emotion. Through the analysis of short
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consequences that are a result of falsely justified revenge are remorse‚ guilt‚ and shame through perspective. From those two elements‚ it is revealed Montresor’s actions resulted in his remorse. The same can be said about people throughout the world today. They feel that taking their revenge is different‚ and that it is justified or even necessary. Most of them don’t expect to feel any negative effects of their revenge like guilt or remorse. Once they see the pain they have inflicted‚ regret and remorse
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The use of setting by the narrator in “A Tell-Tale Heart” Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Tell-Tale Heart” is about a man‚ driven by madness‚ who murders an old man in order to escape his fear. I believe that the narrator chose the time and place of his crime intentionally‚ for the following reasons: The deed was committed in the dark‚ which also describes his thoughts. The murderous act was in the old man’s bedroom‚ with the bed being the murder weapon‚ in order to achieve redemption. Also‚ the crime was
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When reviewing Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Tales‚ Edgar Allen Poe pronounced that the short story‚ if skillfully written‚ should deliver a single preconceived effect- an effect upon which incidents be fashioned to accommodate that effect. Edgar Allen Poe was indeed a skillful writer. His short story‚ "The Fall of the House of Usher" is a flawless example of a story in which all elements contribute to the delivery of a single emotional effect. Poe accomplishes this by achieving a perfect tone‚ developing
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Amontillado In Edgar Allan Poe’s horrific tale of “The Cask of Amontillado” readers witness a journey of two people wondering through an underground graveyard leading to a tragic and twisted end. Most readers assume that the character of Montresor is a male figure. All of the actions of Montresor‚ throughout the course of the story‚ are full capabilities of a woman. It could be possible that our two characters had a love affair before our gruesome tale plays out. Let us say that Montresor is a
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In “The Raven” and Tell Tale Heart‚ the narrators and characters are depressing and melancholy‚ but they’re insane! They’re personality is so bizarre. In “The Raven”‚ there’s a person minding their own business‚ and a raven flies into his room and he can magically start talking to the narrator‚ but the only response he gives is “nevermore”. The unnamed narrator begins saying that he’s crazy‚ it should be in his head‚ and he talks about this person‚ Lenore. In Tell Tale Heart‚ there’s this character
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Edgar Allan Poe takes a very different approach to writing then others. He uses a very dark way of writing while also using many different components of style. Frequently you will notice he uses first person narration in his stories. Poe also uses hyphens to point out disturbance or fear in his stories. It is said by many that when more than one hyphen is present in a paragraph‚ the narrator is in a diversified state of mind. He is also remembered as the author who helped develop and create the short
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