Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne have many works, or stories, with many similarities; however, they each have a different way of revealing their story. Poe, author of “The Fall of the House of Usher” occupies characteristics to support him being a gothic writer. Hawthorne, however, confirms his anti-transcendentalist perspective in his tale of “The Minister’s Black Veil.” Poe and Hawthorne’s utilization of buried secrets and indefinite answers presents their readers the ability to make a situation either good or bad. Examining the works of Hawthorne in “The Minister’s Black Veil” and the works of Poe in “The Fall of the House of Usher” establishes that Poe is undoubledtly a gothic writer. Poe and Hawthorne use many of the same characteristics
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Roderick put his own living sister in her casket for her to wither away. Roderick knew there was no hope for Madeline and himself Nevertheless, Madeline was not going to die that way. When Madeline finally escapes the doom of her casket, the narrator explains, “There was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame” (Poe 25). She wanted revenge and knew that there had to be an end to the atrocious disease that was placed in her family. When she saw Roderick, she murdered him. There is no way to pleasantly put that account, both Usher’s knew there had to be an end and the family name could no longer prosper. John H. Timmerman explains in his “House of Mirrors” that, “In order to create something of a mental theatre that draws out the suspense of the story, Poe constructed a conflation of such images at the ending” (Timmerman 165). Timmerman’s statement is definitely accurate, Poe uses a select word choice to explain all aspects of the story except the deaths of the Ushers. Poe is allowing readers to explore and make this situation even more horrid than it realistically …show more content…
An independent scholar related the two marvelous writers by stating, “Both Hawthorne and Poe wrote about the human condition and human nature in a way that few other writers of the time period did” (Vella). Poe exhibits these attributes of human condition through one family and really narrows down the group of people and surrounding. Hawthorne does the complete opposite and expresses the theme of human nature by allowing everyone in the town to cause commotion about the minister’s veil. Rob Velella, the independent scholar agrees with Poe and Hawthorne 's similarities he made clear that, “Both Poe and Hawthorne disagreed with the reform mentality of the Transcendental movement” (Vella). Poe and Hawthorne did disagree with the reforms of the Transcendental movement; as a result, Hawthorne wrote Anti-Transcendentalist stories and Poe composed Gothic
Roderick put his own living sister in her casket for her to wither away. Roderick knew there was no hope for Madeline and himself Nevertheless, Madeline was not going to die that way. When Madeline finally escapes the doom of her casket, the narrator explains, “There was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame” (Poe 25). She wanted revenge and knew that there had to be an end to the atrocious disease that was placed in her family. When she saw Roderick, she murdered him. There is no way to pleasantly put that account, both Usher’s knew there had to be an end and the family name could no longer prosper. John H. Timmerman explains in his “House of Mirrors” that, “In order to create something of a mental theatre that draws out the suspense of the story, Poe constructed a conflation of such images at the ending” (Timmerman 165). Timmerman’s statement is definitely accurate, Poe uses a select word choice to explain all aspects of the story except the deaths of the Ushers. Poe is allowing readers to explore and make this situation even more horrid than it realistically …show more content…
An independent scholar related the two marvelous writers by stating, “Both Hawthorne and Poe wrote about the human condition and human nature in a way that few other writers of the time period did” (Vella). Poe exhibits these attributes of human condition through one family and really narrows down the group of people and surrounding. Hawthorne does the complete opposite and expresses the theme of human nature by allowing everyone in the town to cause commotion about the minister’s veil. Rob Velella, the independent scholar agrees with Poe and Hawthorne 's similarities he made clear that, “Both Poe and Hawthorne disagreed with the reform mentality of the Transcendental movement” (Vella). Poe and Hawthorne did disagree with the reforms of the Transcendental movement; as a result, Hawthorne wrote Anti-Transcendentalist stories and Poe composed Gothic