When the Gothic Horror era began in the 18th century, it puzzled a lot of humans. Lad Kashmira made clear that, "During the Romantic era, many Gothic romance-based novels were published. As aforementioned, back then, the Gothic novels were marked by prominent sounds and smell, along with a strikingly horror and terrorizing environment" ("A Look at the Evolution of Popular Gothic Literature"). There are tons of gothic horror elements incorporated into stories. A gothic horror novelist, Edgar Allen Poe, incorporated more than one in all of his gothic horror novellas. One of his works, “The Masque of the Red Death” is about how a‘ plague ’was consuming a whole country. When all of his people were dying, the prince had his companions come and stay
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The narrator in this novella savagely murdered his wife by penetrating her skull with a nearby axe. Before he committed the spine-chilling murder, the narrator's cat followed him down to the cellar, annoying him to his breaking point. When he was aiming the axe at his cat, ready to strike, his wife stopped him before he could do anything fatal to the cat. But soon after his wife laid a hand on him, in a fit of madness, the narrator exclaimed, “Goaded by the inference into a rage more than demonical, I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe into her brain. She fell dead at the spot” ( Poe 19). The narrator propelled an axe into her brain hastily because she tried to stop him from killing their cat. The way that Poe described her death was, without a doubt, gruesome. In addition, “The Black Cat” had unexplainable occurrences happen. After the narrator hanged his first cat, Pluto, his house burnt down. When the narrator had gone to the ruins of his house, he exclaims, “I approached and saw, as if graven in bas-relief upon the white surface, the figure of a gigantic cat. There was a rope about the animal’s neck” (Poe 10). When he came back to the ruins of his house, the narrator saw a shadow of a huge cat with a rope around its neck. After he saw the shadow, he was confused and didn’t know what it was supposed to mean. When he had gotten his second cat, the narrator noticed that it had eerily resembled to his late cat. Therefore, it was an unexplainable occurrence. Every gothic horror element used in Edgar Allen Poe’s work ultimately lead them to be very popular gothic
The narrator in this novella savagely murdered his wife by penetrating her skull with a nearby axe. Before he committed the spine-chilling murder, the narrator's cat followed him down to the cellar, annoying him to his breaking point. When he was aiming the axe at his cat, ready to strike, his wife stopped him before he could do anything fatal to the cat. But soon after his wife laid a hand on him, in a fit of madness, the narrator exclaimed, “Goaded by the inference into a rage more than demonical, I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe into her brain. She fell dead at the spot” ( Poe 19). The narrator propelled an axe into her brain hastily because she tried to stop him from killing their cat. The way that Poe described her death was, without a doubt, gruesome. In addition, “The Black Cat” had unexplainable occurrences happen. After the narrator hanged his first cat, Pluto, his house burnt down. When the narrator had gone to the ruins of his house, he exclaims, “I approached and saw, as if graven in bas-relief upon the white surface, the figure of a gigantic cat. There was a rope about the animal’s neck” (Poe 10). When he came back to the ruins of his house, the narrator saw a shadow of a huge cat with a rope around its neck. After he saw the shadow, he was confused and didn’t know what it was supposed to mean. When he had gotten his second cat, the narrator noticed that it had eerily resembled to his late cat. Therefore, it was an unexplainable occurrence. Every gothic horror element used in Edgar Allen Poe’s work ultimately lead them to be very popular gothic