Amontillado

Psychotic Stories and Petrifying Poems Edgar Allan Poe is a very famous author most known for his horror stories. There are many similarities and differences within his three most popular works: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Raven. Poe had a very dysfunctional childhood; his mother died and his father left him at a young age. He moved into a foster family, but he didn't get along with his dad and got kicked out. This was his motive to write such morbid and depressing…

from disregarding one’s moral integrity. Freud’s theories are appropriate to many of Edgar Allen Poe’s workings because they contain unstable characters who are infatuated with achieving vengeance on somebody or something, for example “The Cask of Amontillado.”…

This character can relate to Poe himself. Poe may be referring to himself, he may be thinking about what he could have done to save his wife. He may be thinking he could have locked Virginia up to keep her away from death. Poe may also be alluding to how he is trying to run from coping with her death or he is trying to run from death himself. In the story Prince Prospero has gone as far as to building a maze to keep himself away from the “Red Death”. Bettina L. Knapp describes the abbey as…

The Spanish Tragedy reflects upon Bacons understanding of Revenge due to many different reasons, firstly because Bacon states that ‘Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out’ meaning that revenge is as much of a crime as the original crime itself and the law should deal with this as harshly as it does any other breach of law. This quotation reflects the actions of the protagonist in the play, Hieronimo, who inevitably enacts revenge…

Lauren Park NES 2522: Intoxicating Beverages Christopher Monroe Friday, November 17, 2017 Drunkenness as the Ultimate Sobriety Ding Xiang Warner and Wang Ji provide a discussion of the role of poetry in the late Sui and early Tange eras in the history of China with the help of Wang Ji’s poetry. They present Biography of Mr. Five Dippers and The Story of Drunkenville to show the comparable relationship between the experiences of being drunk and enlightened man’s perception of fundamental…

The short stories, My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke, My Last Duchess by Robert Browning, and Ozymandias by Percy B. Shelley, all incorporate characters who promote the plot. While there are noticeable differences between each poem, the similarities stand. Differences include variances in plot, types of characters, and unique writing style integrated by the authors. Similarities that unite the three poems involve the various characters having a role to further the generality of the plot. 4…

Ah yes, Nathaniel Hawthorne. He’s definitely one of my favorite writers and he makes such an impact in short-stories like an author can make with an entire novel. First of all, “Young Goodman Brown” is such a chilling and creepy story, and if it was written today, you could probably find it highly ranked on CreepyPasta.com. Secondly, when I began taking a closer look, I saw Hawthorne’s clever use of symbolism. I particularly noticed this in his repeated mention of Faith Brown’s pink hair…

“Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them,” (Bacigalupi). Two stories, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber and “The Interlopers” by Saki, provide compelling information on the ways that authors use style. While theme is not necessarily a concrete concept, it can be argued that these two stories share a similar theme: “things are not always as they seem.” This theme is important…

Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher “The Fall of The House of Usher” is a dreary tale of a descent into madness, the unnamed narrator goes into detail of just how gloomy the house truly is. The introduction to “The Fall of The House of Usher” sets up a very gothic mood, Edgar Allen Poe does this by using dark descriptive words. “The theme of The Fall of The House of Usher” is a descent into madness as the usher house was once lively and is now dead in a sense. When the narrator…

The Adventure Of Tom Sawyer is a literature, written by Mark Twain, who was an American humorist and novelist. His vivid imagination, keen sense of humor, and sharp wit resulted in some of the most beloved classics of American literature. In this novel, the frequent use of the conversational rule of Black English, which constantly reminded me that it is about black Americans. Mark Twain was also good at the use of contracted forms which is very common in black oral English. Above all let me come…