Edgar Allan Poe who has been called as “America’s Shakespeare” popularized the American short story, and he attributed to invention of the science fiction, the horror story and the modern detective story. Many people remember Poe by one of his famous poems, “The Raven”. Also, many others have read his popular dim and horrific short stories like “The Tell-tale Heart”, “The Murders In the Rue Morgue”, and “The Black Cat”. Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories are prominent because they are unified and precisely create the connection between each story and Poe’s life; they are complex and interesting enough to guarantee the readers to reread and become provoked enough to capture interest through the eccentric murders and investigation in stories. Edgar
…show more content…
Poe had many struggles and tragic events. Edgar Poe was born in January 19, 1809. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died of tuberculosis and the prosperous tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife took care of Poe afterwards. He did not get to have proper parenting or love from his parents. Kenneth Silverman, the author of The Life and Times of Cotton Mather, states that the young child who lost his parents “denies the permanence of its loss because, among other things, it cannot comprehend the finality of death, is unable to tolerate the protracted painful remembering and giving up of the loved person that occurs in adult morning, and feels that the parent’s supplies of love and self-esteem are essential to its being…” (Silverman 76). Nevertheless neither John Allan nor his wife could provide the essential that his biological parents might have given to Poe. There is no doubt that he was lonely and comparing himself to other kids with their parents and homely environment. His melancholy memories from childhood got assembled and affected his writings later on. His childhood was the cornerstone for his gothic …show more content…
Like previously mentioned, Poe could not be loved by his biological parents or his step-father. When he enrolled at the University of Virginia in February 1826, his relationship with his step-father got worse. “What mostly fed Edgar’s quarrel with John Allan were his financial problems at the university” (Silverman 32).” Edgar brought in a debt of $2,000 from gambling. Also, there were frequent student’s riots at his university. As a young student, the violent and dissolute conditions such as, the riots at school, living on his own, the debt from gambling and non-stop brawls with his step-father was enough strenuous for him to be more mournful. His depressing events all became stacked and caused his stories to be morose and violent. The murky themes of “The Murders In the Rue Morgue”, and “The Black Cat” is influenced by his gloomy life. Poe wrote “his stories and poems as reverberations of the various loves and losses that he suffered throughout his life” (Webb). He completed his gothic fictions with his morose from the
Poe had many struggles and tragic events. Edgar Poe was born in January 19, 1809. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died of tuberculosis and the prosperous tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife took care of Poe afterwards. He did not get to have proper parenting or love from his parents. Kenneth Silverman, the author of The Life and Times of Cotton Mather, states that the young child who lost his parents “denies the permanence of its loss because, among other things, it cannot comprehend the finality of death, is unable to tolerate the protracted painful remembering and giving up of the loved person that occurs in adult morning, and feels that the parent’s supplies of love and self-esteem are essential to its being…” (Silverman 76). Nevertheless neither John Allan nor his wife could provide the essential that his biological parents might have given to Poe. There is no doubt that he was lonely and comparing himself to other kids with their parents and homely environment. His melancholy memories from childhood got assembled and affected his writings later on. His childhood was the cornerstone for his gothic …show more content…
Like previously mentioned, Poe could not be loved by his biological parents or his step-father. When he enrolled at the University of Virginia in February 1826, his relationship with his step-father got worse. “What mostly fed Edgar’s quarrel with John Allan were his financial problems at the university” (Silverman 32).” Edgar brought in a debt of $2,000 from gambling. Also, there were frequent student’s riots at his university. As a young student, the violent and dissolute conditions such as, the riots at school, living on his own, the debt from gambling and non-stop brawls with his step-father was enough strenuous for him to be more mournful. His depressing events all became stacked and caused his stories to be morose and violent. The murky themes of “The Murders In the Rue Morgue”, and “The Black Cat” is influenced by his gloomy life. Poe wrote “his stories and poems as reverberations of the various loves and losses that he suffered throughout his life” (Webb). He completed his gothic fictions with his morose from the