Compare And Contrast Moby Dick And The Fall Of The House Of Usher

Poe, Melville, and Oates all created their stories to have a frightening atmosphere by the sensory language throughout. In Poe’s story, The Fall of the House of Usher, he uses many gothic elements which makes the scenery old, creepy, eerie. All of his stories include supernatural portions. Melville made his story, Moby Dick, seem alarming by Captain Ahab’s obsession and determination to find something, in this case Moby Dick, and put everyone’s life in danger. The fact that Ahab didn’t care about anyone’s opinions made him seem insane. Oates had a different approach at making her story, Where is Here?, frightening. She used clues throughout that didn’t make sense but at the end we pieced all the clues together which made it make a lot more sense. In, The Fall of the House of Usher, Poe starts the beginning of the story with, “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day…” already indicating on the first page the story isn’t going to be happy and cheerful. Another way Poe makes his tales seem ghostly is he uses long sentences that drag out, which makes it feel like someone’s actually speaking the words on the page. …show more content…
Since he got his leg bitten off, just that makes the story frightening enough. Ahab completely had no humanity because he was willing to have all his crew members die just to find the ‘white whale’. “Oh, my captain, my captain! noble heart go not go not! See it’s a brave man that weeps; how great the agony of the persuasion then!” Starbucks yells this at Ahab. The whole whale hunt Starbucks hasn’t been ignorant. He was thinking about making money, and not finding Moby Dick, unlike Ahab. Ahab choosing the whale over his members and his mental health made the story more bizarre and