Insanity In 'The Masque Of The Red Death'

“The Yellow Wallpaper” was an interesting tale of a woman and her husband, living in a new home, ending with the wife eventually going mad. As the wife continues to spend days upon days in their bedroom, she cannot seem to shake the eerie, ugly feeling the yellow wallpaper that is upon the walls seems to bring. This tale is creepy and horrific turning more demonic as you keep reading. At the end she rips up the wallpaper, sending the “woman” she kept seeing trapped in them, free. The woman seems to consume her and her thoughts, making her completely insane passed the point of return. This gothic story is full of suspenseful events, I enjoy how it shows the various degrees of actions that insanity played on the mind and with this I rank it as a 4. “A Rose for …show more content…
In this story consumption is ravaging the town, so the Prince decides to lock all the wealthy citizens up and let the poor sort out their illness outside. During a masquerade party, in the distance of the room, there was a masked man with blood all over it. Which, of course, is a very prominent sign of consumption. This story is very creative, it contains multiple acts of symbolism, and my favorite part, the seven rooms that represent the seven deadly sins. It was a very subtle point at foreshadowing but it was an outstanding twist. For this, I give this story a 5. The “Cask of Amontillado” was yet another Poe story that involves death and burial in a construction of a house, however, this story was suspenseful with the revealing of how the death and burial would occur. The narrator plots revenge among his “friend” for unknown reasons. The friend is drunk and easy to lure, trap, and kill; making it a somewhat easy plot concept. This makes it another predictable story, but with a somewhat better plot line than most. For this I rank this story a 7, due to its well thought out