Being the author of many dark and grotesque stories, Edgar Allan Poe made his mark on humanity by truly showing what it means to be human. Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809. He was later adopted by tobacco merchants in 1811. Poe inherited his uncle’s fortune in 1825 and that is when he starts his writing career. Poe is a brilliant short story writer that trampled upon light and fluffy works. He meant for people to feel uneasy and frightened of what may be happening in another’s mind. Edgar Allan Poe was one of the greatest and most influential American writers of his time. He wrote very twisted stories unlike his counterparts Nathaniel Hawthorne and Charles Dickens. Poe was the black sheep among writer in this era and that is why
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Symbols like eyes and death mean something greater than originally thought. Eyes play a huge role in "The Tell-Tale Heart" and death plays a huge part in all three of the selected stories. Mildly scary buildings also seems to play a part in Poe 's stories. Just like eyes, time is something very important to Poe. The main character starts hearing the heart in his mind just after “the bell sounded the hour, there came a knocking at the street door” and Poe uses this “hour” as another symbol to show the audience a sense of urgency (The Tell-Tale Heart).This is seen as a way to develop emotions in the piece itself, the reader can sense all that is happening to the man. The reason why Poe is a mastermind in his genre is because he can create this with things that seem so mundane. Time is something no one can stop so he has to destroy it what “the narrator really wishes to destroy is not the "eye," but that which sounds like "eye"—that is, the 'I '" and that it where it connects for an audience (Wright). He makes sure to use such horrific, yet terrific scenes and human characteristics to show how One can be taken to a whole new level when reading a simple story. Poe offers great story telling when he uses such easy and almost overlooked things as symbols.The audience now understands why everything happened. Poe uses symbols to create this much deeper meaning in his stories which ultimately makes them meaningful. In "The Black Cat", the cat itself is a symbol. It can be seen as a symbol of the main character 's degradation of his mind. The main character first had a "tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make" friends with his animals (The Black Cat). One can see here how in the beginning a well-tempered man turns into a violent soul. He went on to grow "more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others" and which causes him to then murder the cat and his own
Symbols like eyes and death mean something greater than originally thought. Eyes play a huge role in "The Tell-Tale Heart" and death plays a huge part in all three of the selected stories. Mildly scary buildings also seems to play a part in Poe 's stories. Just like eyes, time is something very important to Poe. The main character starts hearing the heart in his mind just after “the bell sounded the hour, there came a knocking at the street door” and Poe uses this “hour” as another symbol to show the audience a sense of urgency (The Tell-Tale Heart).This is seen as a way to develop emotions in the piece itself, the reader can sense all that is happening to the man. The reason why Poe is a mastermind in his genre is because he can create this with things that seem so mundane. Time is something no one can stop so he has to destroy it what “the narrator really wishes to destroy is not the "eye," but that which sounds like "eye"—that is, the 'I '" and that it where it connects for an audience (Wright). He makes sure to use such horrific, yet terrific scenes and human characteristics to show how One can be taken to a whole new level when reading a simple story. Poe offers great story telling when he uses such easy and almost overlooked things as symbols.The audience now understands why everything happened. Poe uses symbols to create this much deeper meaning in his stories which ultimately makes them meaningful. In "The Black Cat", the cat itself is a symbol. It can be seen as a symbol of the main character 's degradation of his mind. The main character first had a "tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make" friends with his animals (The Black Cat). One can see here how in the beginning a well-tempered man turns into a violent soul. He went on to grow "more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others" and which causes him to then murder the cat and his own