Edgar Allan Poe: A Writer as Mysterious as his Tales
During this time in age there are many tales of mysteries and remorse, but they don't have the same grandeur as around the time Edgar Allan Poe was alive. Poe is considered the father of those types of stories that we have today. While reading some of the short stories and poems that Poe wrote; there are reasons to believe that he based some of the writing about his life or what was happening around him throughout the time he was alive, in the following ways: (1) his first major period was about independence and pride as well as loss and grief, (2) the second period was mainly about life being a dramatic structure of revenge, alcoholism, and misfortune; (3) and finally the third major period …show more content…
During the time Edgar was growing up there were many misfortunes that happened to him; Poe lost his biological parents at a very young age, separated from his siblings to live with a foster family, when he was older he didn’t get along well with his foster father, and his wife passed away in 1847 before he did in 1849. In the The Cask of Amontillado Montresor says, “A wrong is undressed when retribution overtakes its redresser” (Poe ),meaning to ‘to correct an error, or a fault, or an evil’. This could imply Edgar had a mind set that revenge and betrayal is a never-ending cycle, unless the parties involved reach some sort of agreement, or one of them dies, which is reflected in Montresor. In one paragraph Montresor said, “The wine sparkled his eyes and the bells jingled. My own fancy grew warm with the Medoc.” (Poe ),suggesting that the wine gave both men courage and a sense of elation, with Fortunato letting down his guard and making Montresor more alert and aware. Throughout Edgar’s life he was a major alcoholic and his unexplainable death involved alcohol. Fortunato, the person Montresor kills, said, “Let us go, …show more content…
Poe is considered the father of those types of stories that we have today. While reading some of the short stories and poems that Poe wrote; there are reasons to believe that he based some of the writing about his life or what was happening around him throughout the time he was alive, in the following ways: (1) his first major period was about independence and pride as well as loss and grief, (2) the second period was mainly about life being a dramatic structure of revenge, alcoholism, and misfortune; (3) and finally the third major period was about people becoming insane or can suffer from insanity, can be hidden under a false appearance, and can be
During this time in age there are many tales of mysteries and remorse, but they don't have the same grandeur as around the time Edgar Allan Poe was alive. Poe is considered the father of those types of stories that we have today. While reading some of the short stories and poems that Poe wrote; there are reasons to believe that he based some of the writing about his life or what was happening around him throughout the time he was alive, in the following ways: (1) his first major period was about independence and pride as well as loss and grief, (2) the second period was mainly about life being a dramatic structure of revenge, alcoholism, and misfortune; (3) and finally the third major period …show more content…
During the time Edgar was growing up there were many misfortunes that happened to him; Poe lost his biological parents at a very young age, separated from his siblings to live with a foster family, when he was older he didn’t get along well with his foster father, and his wife passed away in 1847 before he did in 1849. In the The Cask of Amontillado Montresor says, “A wrong is undressed when retribution overtakes its redresser” (Poe ),meaning to ‘to correct an error, or a fault, or an evil’. This could imply Edgar had a mind set that revenge and betrayal is a never-ending cycle, unless the parties involved reach some sort of agreement, or one of them dies, which is reflected in Montresor. In one paragraph Montresor said, “The wine sparkled his eyes and the bells jingled. My own fancy grew warm with the Medoc.” (Poe ),suggesting that the wine gave both men courage and a sense of elation, with Fortunato letting down his guard and making Montresor more alert and aware. Throughout Edgar’s life he was a major alcoholic and his unexplainable death involved alcohol. Fortunato, the person Montresor kills, said, “Let us go, …show more content…
Poe is considered the father of those types of stories that we have today. While reading some of the short stories and poems that Poe wrote; there are reasons to believe that he based some of the writing about his life or what was happening around him throughout the time he was alive, in the following ways: (1) his first major period was about independence and pride as well as loss and grief, (2) the second period was mainly about life being a dramatic structure of revenge, alcoholism, and misfortune; (3) and finally the third major period was about people becoming insane or can suffer from insanity, can be hidden under a false appearance, and can be