Edgar Allen Poe once said, “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” Poe had some horrific experiences throughout his lifetime, and those thoughts show up in his writing. In “The Masque of the Red Death” there is a disease that is spreading throughout the country. The majority of it’s citizens have fallen to this disease and the prince had decided to seclude himself into a castle and throw a party, in an attempt to escape the Red Death. “The Black Cat” is centralized around the life of an insane man who is about to die the very next day. This man claimed to be found of animals but constantly abuses and sometimes kills his pets. The narrator then
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The narrator is writing this short story from a prison cell and that this is a story of his life. Then, Poe writes, “But tomorrow I die, and today I would unburthen my soul” (Poe 1). The narrator is saying that he is going to die the next day and that this story is a way to relieve his soul. Poe initiates a dark tone with this line and is an example of gothic literature. Later on in the story, the narrator took out one of his cats eyes because the cat had scratched him when he came home one day. The narrator could not bare what he had done to his cat and Poe explains, “One morning, in cold blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; hung it because I knew it had loved me...” (Poe 7). As displayed in Poe's writing, the narrator is completely insane in how he killed his cat because the cat loved him. Many gothic horror stories contain characters that have highly charged emotional states, and this is one of those instances. Dark tones and characters with highly charged emotional states are just two ways Poe showed gothic horror in “The Black
The narrator is writing this short story from a prison cell and that this is a story of his life. Then, Poe writes, “But tomorrow I die, and today I would unburthen my soul” (Poe 1). The narrator is saying that he is going to die the next day and that this story is a way to relieve his soul. Poe initiates a dark tone with this line and is an example of gothic literature. Later on in the story, the narrator took out one of his cats eyes because the cat had scratched him when he came home one day. The narrator could not bare what he had done to his cat and Poe explains, “One morning, in cold blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; hung it because I knew it had loved me...” (Poe 7). As displayed in Poe's writing, the narrator is completely insane in how he killed his cat because the cat loved him. Many gothic horror stories contain characters that have highly charged emotional states, and this is one of those instances. Dark tones and characters with highly charged emotional states are just two ways Poe showed gothic horror in “The Black