Edgar Allan Poe's Narrative Techniques Essay

Oedipus Rex, a tragic hero crushed because of his hamartia, was not a perfect man by any means. He had all he wanted, but by the end of the story everything he thought was true turned out to be untrue. Although Oedipus considered fate to be real, he had more confidence in his own knowledge and achievements to control his future. Also, Oedipus’ dependence on himself made his purpose and insight the best way to establish all of his decisions. Oedipus was very short tempered and tended to get…

Language and The Cask of Amontillado The Cask of Amontillado was a short story written in 1846, by Edgar Allen Poe. In this story we follow two men named Fortunado and Montesor. Montesor is out to seek revenge on his “good” friend Fortunado, a very prideful man, as he has made him look like a fool one too many times. Montesor takes his friend down the catacombs deep beneath the city to show him a cask of wine he has obtained, as wine is Fortunado’s weak point. We soon find out this is going…

While Nottages play POOF! and Glaspell’s play Trifles both fall under the same section: Trials of Marriage: Plays and share the same theme of domestic violence, they differ very strongly on two points. These points being: believability,how the murder was committed and the type of abuse. In POOF! Nottage’s approach was one of fiction, having the main character Loureen turn her husband into a “huge pile of smoking ashes”(1210). Unlike Trifles we Mrs.Wright murdered her husband by suffocating him,…

In the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe, the raven is real, however the narrator imagines that the bird will give him a sense of hope and comfort even though he is only a bird. While grieving over the death of his love, Lenore, the narrator starts to worry about who is at his chamber door. When he discovers a Raven he begins to feel less lonely. The speaker continues to contribute to his misery by asking the Raven questions about his lost love, Lenore which makes it difficult for him to let…

Steven King Biography Steven King is arguably one of the most influential horror writers in modern pop culture. With hits like “Carrie,” “It,” and “The Shining,” King has earned his spot on the New York Times bestseller list (biography.com) and as in inspiration for readers nightmares for years. Steven King was born on September 21st in 1947 to Donald and Nellie King in Portland Maine. After his parents divorced, King and his brother David bounced between his father’s family in Indiana and his…

Mood is the atmosphere for the overall feeling of the piece of literature. Some storing are happy, sad, full of anger or excitement. Edgar Allan Poe, is known for writing stories with an eerie Moon. In his famous story " The Tell-Tale Heart, " Poe cleverly creates a mood of horror. He creates the horrific mood by the setting. The mentally deranged young man who, " every night, about midnight," (39). Another way Poe sets the mood of horror is by the characters. The main character is an insane…

Scott Fitzgerald uses a specific technique to demonstrate that the story is coming to an end. He does this by drastically changing the weather from an unbearably hot day, to a “cold fall day”; to quote him exactly the narrator says “On the last afternoon before he went abroad, he sat with…

Unlike the poem “Porphyria’s Lover”, this story gives a reason for the murder. Poe’s short story describes a man, Montresor, looking for revenge on a man named Fortunato who was once his friend. The writer goes as far as to say Montresor “vowed revenge” (page 183). Montresor lures Fortunato into his family vaults with the promise of…

The noir genre was similarly reactionary as its predecessor, romanticism. At the end of the 21st century, the progress and development of the society showed its unlimited abilities and the abandonment of the religious faith. Romanticism and its “eventual child”, gothic genre, was a reaction against the rapidly materializing world and the negation of its former ideals. The beginning of the 20th century faced similar challenges and certain disappointment in the big brave world. The emerging…

The three stories that I will be contrasting are Gawain and the Green Knight, Morte D’ Arthur and How the Round Table Began. The style, plot, and characters of these three stories are vastly different. For example, Sir Gawain changes who he is as a person throughout the three stories. The style of these stories changes dramatically if you look at the difficultly of the styles. Even the plot within the stories have changed drastically. The style of writing is Middle English, simplified by mass…