Edgar Allan Poe
“I took from my waistcoat-pocket a pen-knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of it’s eyes from the socket!” This came from the short story “The Black Cat” written by Edgar Allen Poe. Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are very depressing and filled with grief because of all the death in his life. In most of Poe’s stories, the narrators wanted to solve a problem or have revenge, but they went about it in a violent way. People were killed and the narrator got caught most of the time by giving in to the authorities. In Poe’s stories the theme of don’t let grief overcome you is shown through conflict, setting, and characters.
In Poe’s poem, “The Raven” the theme is to not let grief overcome you. …show more content…
One way this theme is shown is through setting. The tone of the short story is negative because most of the story the narrator is taken over by alcohol. “One day she accompanied me, upon some household errand, into the cellar of the old building which our poverty compelled us to inhabit.” When the narrator and his wife were walking down the stairs to the basement the narrator tripped over the cat. He grabbed an axe and went to kill it but he was stopped by his wife. He quickly changed the destination of the axe and killed his wife. The narrator let the alcohol take over his grief and anger.”Upon the alarm of fire, this garden had been immediately filled by the crowd-by some one of whom the animal must have been cut from the tree and thrown, through an open window, into my chamber.” One night there was a fire in the narrator’s house and the cat came back to life after the narrator had hung it. When the narrator was going through the ruins he found the cat engraved in the wall and dead. After the cat dies the narrator begins to fill grief while it haunts him. This shows how the theme is shown through setting in the short story “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan …show more content…
One way the theme is shown is through character. Montresor is the protagonist and the antagonist in the short story because he killed Fortunato, when he was embarrassed by him. “My heart grew sick; it was the dampness of the catacombs that made it so.” After Montresor killed Fortunato he began to fill his heart sicken. He began to grief for Fortunato, then he blamed the sickening of his heart on the dampness of the catacombs.”But when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.” Fortunato insulted Montresor, so Montresor planned to get revenge, but later his revenge would cause him grief. This shows how the theme is shown through character in the short story “The Cask of
“I took from my waistcoat-pocket a pen-knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of it’s eyes from the socket!” This came from the short story “The Black Cat” written by Edgar Allen Poe. Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are very depressing and filled with grief because of all the death in his life. In most of Poe’s stories, the narrators wanted to solve a problem or have revenge, but they went about it in a violent way. People were killed and the narrator got caught most of the time by giving in to the authorities. In Poe’s stories the theme of don’t let grief overcome you is shown through conflict, setting, and characters.
In Poe’s poem, “The Raven” the theme is to not let grief overcome you. …show more content…
One way this theme is shown is through setting. The tone of the short story is negative because most of the story the narrator is taken over by alcohol. “One day she accompanied me, upon some household errand, into the cellar of the old building which our poverty compelled us to inhabit.” When the narrator and his wife were walking down the stairs to the basement the narrator tripped over the cat. He grabbed an axe and went to kill it but he was stopped by his wife. He quickly changed the destination of the axe and killed his wife. The narrator let the alcohol take over his grief and anger.”Upon the alarm of fire, this garden had been immediately filled by the crowd-by some one of whom the animal must have been cut from the tree and thrown, through an open window, into my chamber.” One night there was a fire in the narrator’s house and the cat came back to life after the narrator had hung it. When the narrator was going through the ruins he found the cat engraved in the wall and dead. After the cat dies the narrator begins to fill grief while it haunts him. This shows how the theme is shown through setting in the short story “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan …show more content…
One way the theme is shown is through character. Montresor is the protagonist and the antagonist in the short story because he killed Fortunato, when he was embarrassed by him. “My heart grew sick; it was the dampness of the catacombs that made it so.” After Montresor killed Fortunato he began to fill his heart sicken. He began to grief for Fortunato, then he blamed the sickening of his heart on the dampness of the catacombs.”But when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.” Fortunato insulted Montresor, so Montresor planned to get revenge, but later his revenge would cause him grief. This shows how the theme is shown through character in the short story “The Cask of