The stories “The Cask of the Amontillado”, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, and “The Masque of the Red Death” all have many similarities including that the …show more content…
In “The Fall of the House of Usher” the symbol is the house symbolizing that the family is falling apart. In the story it says, “I looked upon the scene before me—upon the bleak walls—upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain—upon the bleak walls—upon the vacant eye-like windows—upon a few rank sedges—and upon a few white trunks of the decayed trees.” In “The Masque of the Red Death” a symbol is the ebony clock which symbolizes that life is ticking away. In the story it says, “But of so peculiar a note and emphasis that, at each lapse of an hour, the musicians of the orchestra were constrained to pause momentarily in their performance to hearken the sound” In “The Cask of Amontillado” the symbol is Montresor’s crest. In the story it says, “a huge human foot d’or, in a field of azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel,” witch shows that if someone does something bad to him he will get revenge. This shows Poe uses