Have you ever read or watched something that had such sensory details it just sent shivers down your spine? Edger Allen Poe uses many extreme sensory details to create the atmosphere of fear and horror in his stories, especially in The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Masque of The Red Death. In Poe’s story The Tell-Tale Heart the narrator is extremely bothered by his roommate’s eye, to the point that the narrator kills the roommate. In the beginning of the story the narrator tries to convince the reader that he is not mad and that he is sane, but by the end he is so paranoid from the guilt that it makes him mad. The next story The Cask of Amontillado is about Montressor who wants revenge on Fortunato. He wants revenge because
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Poe uses sight to put a shocking image into the reader’s head by describing the old man’s eye. “One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture-a pale blue eye with a film over it. When ever if fell upon me my blood ran cold; and so by degrees-very gradually- I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself from the eye forever.”(Poe 303), this puts a lurid image in the reader’s mind of the man’s vulture eye. The narrator was so bothered by the eye that he killed the man because of it, even though in the beginning of the story he is trying to convince the reader that he is not mad. He also uses sound details to describe when the man was sitting with the officers. “Yet the sound increased—and what could I do? It was a low, dull, quick sound—much like the sound a watch makes when enveloped in cotton” “I felt I must scream or die!—and now—again!—hark! Louder! Louder! Louder! Louder!—“ (Poe 306) The sound was the beating of the mans hideous heart. The narrator admitted to the deed of killing the man. The sensory details were used very strongly in this …show more content…
Montresor describes Frotunato as being erudite about wines and alcohols but not of his own riches. Also sight is used to establish the horror when the men are walking down the long hall, “ ‘The niter! I said ‘see it increases. It hangs like moss upon the vaults. We are below the river’s bed. The drops of mostiture trickle among the bones.’ “ (Poe 211). The readers knows that Fortunanto is going there to be killed but he himself does not. The sense of touch or feel is used to describe Fortunanto being buried alive as revenge. “I had scarcelu laid the first tier of the masonry when I discovered that the intoxication of Fortunato had in great measure had worn off. The earliest indication I had of this was a low moaning cry from the depths of recess. It was not the cry of a drunken man. There was then a long and obstinate silence. I laid the second tier, and then the third and the fourth; and then I heard the vibration of the chain.” (Poe 214). As the story goes on Montressor continues to bury Fortunanto by placing more tiers, by Poe describing each tier it creates a sense of fear because the reader feels as if they are right there with the men. The reader commiserates for Fortunanto because he is being buried
Poe uses sight to put a shocking image into the reader’s head by describing the old man’s eye. “One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture-a pale blue eye with a film over it. When ever if fell upon me my blood ran cold; and so by degrees-very gradually- I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself from the eye forever.”(Poe 303), this puts a lurid image in the reader’s mind of the man’s vulture eye. The narrator was so bothered by the eye that he killed the man because of it, even though in the beginning of the story he is trying to convince the reader that he is not mad. He also uses sound details to describe when the man was sitting with the officers. “Yet the sound increased—and what could I do? It was a low, dull, quick sound—much like the sound a watch makes when enveloped in cotton” “I felt I must scream or die!—and now—again!—hark! Louder! Louder! Louder! Louder!—“ (Poe 306) The sound was the beating of the mans hideous heart. The narrator admitted to the deed of killing the man. The sensory details were used very strongly in this …show more content…
Montresor describes Frotunato as being erudite about wines and alcohols but not of his own riches. Also sight is used to establish the horror when the men are walking down the long hall, “ ‘The niter! I said ‘see it increases. It hangs like moss upon the vaults. We are below the river’s bed. The drops of mostiture trickle among the bones.’ “ (Poe 211). The readers knows that Fortunanto is going there to be killed but he himself does not. The sense of touch or feel is used to describe Fortunanto being buried alive as revenge. “I had scarcelu laid the first tier of the masonry when I discovered that the intoxication of Fortunato had in great measure had worn off. The earliest indication I had of this was a low moaning cry from the depths of recess. It was not the cry of a drunken man. There was then a long and obstinate silence. I laid the second tier, and then the third and the fourth; and then I heard the vibration of the chain.” (Poe 214). As the story goes on Montressor continues to bury Fortunanto by placing more tiers, by Poe describing each tier it creates a sense of fear because the reader feels as if they are right there with the men. The reader commiserates for Fortunanto because he is being buried