The Plague • What did you think about the reactions and responses of the European people to the bubonic plague epidemic of the 1340s? Did you find these reactions and responses surprising? The Black Death was originally brought to Italy in the year of 1347 by sailors returning from their journey to the Black Sea. Rats and flees were major instruments in spreading the plague. Quickly‚ there was an astounding decline in the population. Roughly 20-30% of Italy’s citizens were killed and most likely left
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In the story “The Black Cat”‚ Poe uses many gothic traits and examples to embark terror into the reader of the story. Poe is able to construct so many different aspects of gothic literature into one single terrifying story for the reader to enjoy. Poe uses traits such as the use of love and true imagination in his stories and twists them into one of a kind horror for the reader. In “The Black Cat’‚ Poe uses love as one of the problems in the story‚ and as one of the ways to plant fear and terror
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Black Death packet 1. The story that was told was that rat got on a ship in the Italian port of Messina. The rat carried a flea that breads the plague inside of it and from there it spread to all of Europe. 2. The author believes that fleas carried bacteria called Xenopsylla Cheopis. 3. Greek word for groin. 4. The population was fearful because it could kill somebody overnight. 5. Ring around the Rosy could relate to the Black Death because the ring showed an early sign that a blotch was
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Michael Robinson History Final His 101 Before and After Consequences of the Black Death The Black Death was a plague that began in Asia and moved throughout Europe killing one third to half of population of everywhere it touched. During the the fourteenth century‚ Europe had been at the peak of a population boom. (Perry‚ M)The large increase in population coupled with torrential downpours of rain and a reliance on grain farming led to a long famine. The famine in turn made people living in 14th
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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 Cat. “Mad I would be indeed to expect it‚ in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence.” An amazing example of a unreliable narrator
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Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat. The two short stories that I have chosen by Edgar Allan Poe are The Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat. These two stories in particular have many things in common as far as technique goes‚ but they do have some significant differences between the two. In this paper I will try to compare and contrast these two short stories and hopefully bring something to the readers attention that wasn’t there at first. One of the main differences in
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Middle Ages there were many progresses made such as many new inventions and art and literate was at a peak. With these very important improvements of the late middle ages there was a problem that nothing could be compared to‚ the black death. During this time period the Black Death was a major factor in Europe from when it swept threw from 1300 to 1450. Many people said it was the end of the world because of the plague’s effects on the European people and Europe in general. The plague was brought
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In the short story “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ the author made choices when it came to structuring the text like diction & setting the right mood. This helped to contribute to the story’s overall structure and aesthetic impact. The main character goes through a series of changes unexplainable to both him and the reader brought upon by him bringing along a new cat named Pluto. The author used descriptive language‚ contrast and contradiction & set a mysterious tone to build upon the story’s
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symbolism to seize his readers’ attention in almost every single one of his stories. Poe effectively uses these expressions to cause each of his readers to experience a certain emotion or feeling while reading his stories. In Poe’s story “The Black Cat”‚ right off the bat he begins intriguing his reader with suspense. He writes a first person account of how he has done something bad. As he starts to explain what he has done‚ he continuously interrupts himself to remind the reader that he was not
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Edgar Allan Poe included experiences from his own life in his stories and poems: such as alcoholism‚ losses caused by tuberculosis‚ and self sabotage. The first connection to Poe’s life is his addiction to alcohol. In “The Black Cat”‚ Poe states‚ “But my disease grew upon me- for what disease is like Alcohol.” Poe had a disease just like the narrator‚ alcoholism. Poe’s terrible addiction to alcohol affected his daily life‚ and it kept him from doing his absolute best work. Throughout the story‚ the
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