The Fall Of The House Of Usher Essay

There is always something that bothers us in life, whether it’s others or even our own consciousness. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator has a difficult time following through with his cruel act of killing an old man due to his “evil” eye. This occurs because a part of him knows it’s truly wrong, and his guilt was haunting him soon after. Throughout the story, his crimes bring more tension between him and the readers. Suspense is created by the narrator’s every move,…

the way he thinks. Which makes him unreliable because the way he said that it was the eye, shows that he was unsure about it. That makes people think that there is another reason behind it. Later on, someone came to the old man’s house, “I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search--search well” (Poe 3). He’s confident and thinks that it was a perfect crime that’s why he placed his chair above the dead body. The narrator’s untrustworthiness is shown by how calmly he narrates what…

Short Analysis “The Rockpile” by James Baldwin The short story “The Rockpile,” written by James Baldwin, tells about a boy facing almost fatal consequences after not listening to instructions. The author uses the following literary devices to relate his tale: foreshadowing, symbolism, irony, style, tone, and others. Each device lends a touch of realism to the reader’s experience in that the reader can visualize the story. Throughout the short story, the devices listed above allows the reader to…

Absurd Emotions To answer the question of what the meaning of life is, one must first answer the question of whether life matters at all. Albert Camus toys with these questions in his novella “The Stranger” and pulls the strings of the heart and mind. In the aforementioned novella, Meursault, a universally apathetic observer and also the protagonist, is put on trial for the inscrutable murder of another man. Rather than focusing on the crime, the prosecution focuses on Meursault’s character.…

Another important aspect of the setting is the labyrinthine, claustrophobic and exotic space into which the plot is set. Since Walpole's `Castle of Otrano' (1764) the Gothic castle is one of the key features of the Gothic novel. The Gothic castle is a labyrinthine and claustrophobic place which evokes feelings of "fear, awe, entrapment and helplessness" (Raskauskien 50). Characteristic of the Gothic castle are mazy, over- and undergrounded corridors, creaking doors, shuttered windows, trapdoors…

handsome gentleman on a white horse would eventually come sweep them off their feet” (Pierce, Line 9), this is an idiom, as a handsome gentleman will not literally come sweep them off their feet the author just means to say that this gentleman will just fall deeply into love with them. ”Humans are defined as being subject to weaknesses, imperfection and fragility”(Pierce, Line 22),this is obvious enumeration as she lists the weaknesses of humans. When it comes to which rhetorical device was the…

In the early-modernist novella, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, a series of themes are displayed, one of such being that of intolerance. In the contemporary vernacular, the definition of intolerance is regularly associated with discrimination or prejudice. Ethan Frome, the namesake of the novella, has been facing a serious dilemma for over a year, whilst his wife, Zeena Frome is slowly dying of illness and his true love, Mattie Silver, is on the verge of leaving him forever. These three…

In “A Poison Tree” by William Blake and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe have the same concept in the matter of characters and conflicts. In the poem by Blake, the speaker of the poem is angry with its “Foe” but the foe doesn’t know of the feelings of the speaker. In the short story by Poe the main character Montresor was furious with Fortunato, the other main character, for reasons that Fortunato is not aware of and same with the reader. The poem and short story are similar because…

Gaming Loved Ones within Games: Ambiguity and Power Relations in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal Introduction: Power Relations Arising from Ambiguities “A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false” (p. 11); this was how Harold Pinter (1977) expounded the role of art in exploring reality in the Introduction to his collection of works. More than forty years later, Pinter repeated this quote as he began his acceptance speech of the Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobel Media…

A simple analysis on Oscar Wilde’s Salome Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. Scintillating with wit, he has left many talented works, and he was famous for his poems, fairy tales, novel and plays. First written in French, Salome was a single-act tragedy, which became his representative work of aestheticism. Originally, the story of Salome was come from the Bible (the New Testament: Mark 6:17-29 and Matthew 14:3-11), in which the name Salome wasn’t even mentioned.…