Obviously revealed at the beginning of “The Masque of the Red Death” with Prince Prospero abandoning his people, Poe discloses, “…and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys.” A similar scene is given in “The Cask of Amontillado” when Poe explains how Montresor leads Fortunato into the catacombs by saying, “There were no attendants at home…stood together upon the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors.” In “The Fall of the House of Usher”, Poe repeatedly refers to the isolation of the Usher residence, beginning with the narrator describing the eerie setting, “…I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy house of Usher.” The characters in each of the short stories are subject to isolation, connecting the writings through their similar topics. In addition to seclusion, the settings of the three texts have related elements that tie them together to an even greater extent. Edgar Allan Poe’s regular use of a bleak and depressing scene is what sets his works apart, although his style never varied, causing his tales to always seem similar. In “Masque of the Red Death”, Poe creates the dark setting by stating, “When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one
Obviously revealed at the beginning of “The Masque of the Red Death” with Prince Prospero abandoning his people, Poe discloses, “…and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys.” A similar scene is given in “The Cask of Amontillado” when Poe explains how Montresor leads Fortunato into the catacombs by saying, “There were no attendants at home…stood together upon the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors.” In “The Fall of the House of Usher”, Poe repeatedly refers to the isolation of the Usher residence, beginning with the narrator describing the eerie setting, “…I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy house of Usher.” The characters in each of the short stories are subject to isolation, connecting the writings through their similar topics. In addition to seclusion, the settings of the three texts have related elements that tie them together to an even greater extent. Edgar Allan Poe’s regular use of a bleak and depressing scene is what sets his works apart, although his style never varied, causing his tales to always seem similar. In “Masque of the Red Death”, Poe creates the dark setting by stating, “When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one