Edgar Allan Poe is the most established Gothic writer of his time, he had the ability to bring the dark and gloomy environment of his tales to life like no other writer. “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Masque of Red Death,” the author has design an unknown world for a reader to enter. Poe had use the color, weather, nature, and the human emotion to bring structure to the dark tone to the setting of these stories. “The Masque of Red Death,” the setting has a figure known a “Red Death” this led to countless souls to dead by this disease. Then “The Fall of the House of Usher” has a setting of mansion isolated from the world there lived Usher’s twins, and their lives become consumed by their own deaths. “The Masque of Red Death,” has figure described
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(Pg.420) “The Masque of Red Death” and the “The Fall of the House of Usher,” happen in the European Era during the 19th century. “The Masque of Red Death,” this story begins at Prince Prospero in the “deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys” this term refers to a fortifications of castle that no one can get out or in. (Pg.431) “The Fall of the House of Usher” had “mere house” with “bleak walls,” “vacant eye-like windows” this desolate and crumbled house this was death-trap.(Pg.420) “The Masque of Red Death, “in the masquerade ball there was “seven-an imperial suite” this indicated to seven rooms which run to east to west. (Pg. 431) “The Masque of Red Death, “every room had windows on either side that face north to south, and the candles were placed outside of two hallways to run along the suite. This design focuses on the compass of birth and death. “The Masque of Red Death, “the first room “blue-and vividly blue were its windows” this farthest room to east was the place of birth the bringing of hope. (Pg.432) “The Fall of the House of Usher,” the “carving of the ceilings” has an design on the aging of generations of the Usher’s family line been born here. (Pg. 422) “The Masque
(Pg.420) “The Masque of Red Death” and the “The Fall of the House of Usher,” happen in the European Era during the 19th century. “The Masque of Red Death,” this story begins at Prince Prospero in the “deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys” this term refers to a fortifications of castle that no one can get out or in. (Pg.431) “The Fall of the House of Usher” had “mere house” with “bleak walls,” “vacant eye-like windows” this desolate and crumbled house this was death-trap.(Pg.420) “The Masque of Red Death, “in the masquerade ball there was “seven-an imperial suite” this indicated to seven rooms which run to east to west. (Pg. 431) “The Masque of Red Death, “every room had windows on either side that face north to south, and the candles were placed outside of two hallways to run along the suite. This design focuses on the compass of birth and death. “The Masque of Red Death, “the first room “blue-and vividly blue were its windows” this farthest room to east was the place of birth the bringing of hope. (Pg.432) “The Fall of the House of Usher,” the “carving of the ceilings” has an design on the aging of generations of the Usher’s family line been born here. (Pg. 422) “The Masque