Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum

Edgar Allen Poe’s Death Theory Did you know Edgar Allen Poe married his first cousin? Poe lied to the court about his wife’s age. She was thirteen and Poe was twenty-six. Later in life, she died of tuberculosis, like most women in Poe’s family. Back to Poe is passing. My thoughts on Poe’s death is that he died of rabies. Doctors even said he was not drunk when he was found. Poe’s symptoms were similar to signs of rabies. “Poe was found outside of a tavern, but wasn’t drunk.” (pg. 187 by Dr. R.…

Edgar Allan Poe used the literary device of setting to create a dark, threatening tone to his short story, “Tell Tale Heart.” Edgar Allan Poe used the literary devices of him when he stayed in the dark while he hid from the old man, when he used the lantern to cover it to only shine light on the vulture eye, and also his heart beat when the police arrived to the home. The man would go for 7 nights and spot the vulture eye of the old man. He went every night to check on the old man and on the…

Fortunato by dialog. Did Fortunato die? Did Fortunato deserve whatever happened to him? Is any of this real or is Montresor mental? All of these questions come from having a flawed narrator, it allows the reader to question and infer. Considering Edgar Allen Poe starts this story off so gladly speaking of “The thousand injuries of Fortunato” (212) his revenge had called for but ends speaking of how for “half of a century no mortal has disturbed” (217) Fortunato’s bones makes the reader question…

Tim Burton's Style Essay Tim Burton is renowned for embracing dark undertones in his movies. HIs style is not like most directors who ignore the dark undertones of their movies and just convey the happy side. Burton uses low key lighting, and non diegetic music to help convey a creepy mood in his movie’s scenes. Tim Burton's creepy/ gothic style is conveyed by his use of cinematic techniques. Burton’s use of lighting helps to show his gothic style. In his movie Charlie and the Chocolate…

Eva Marie Holland never expected to wake up during the midst of a war. Actually, Eva never really thought about where she’d wake up. She didn’t really have expectations, but she did not expect this. She’d been shut in a coffin and a battle had been plopped onto Midway Atoll. Gunshots burst throughout the scene and the vibrations rippled her casket. Eva tried to kick and push her way out with no avail. Screaming diluted amongst the sounds of bullets. A shotgun’s spread grazed her coffin. A…

possessed by the “fury of a demon” (Poe). Which ultimately result in him violently attacking his wife and cat. Poe takes the concept of demon rum and complements it in parodying temperance literature. The idea that inebriation is tied to the spiritual world is very biased and difficult to find consensus. Even in religious circles ideas vary; the idea that all people are bound to the same school of thought again limits the audience to which these narratives appeal to. Poe dramatizes the use of…

“It grew quicker and quicker, louder and louder!”Edgar Allen Poe has produced many great pieces but this one is possibly the best. I’m here to tell you about the “Tell Tale Heart”. This has been written as a story and used as a play. I have gotten to see both and they were similar and different in many ways. There were plenty of similarities in the “Tell Tale Heart”. In both, the old man has the “vulture eye” that makes another man mad(page 1). This man ends up wanting to murder him. In both…

Walt Whitman/Emily Dickinson Clash Essay Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were both highly influential poetic writers in the twentieth century. Whitman portrayed the major characteristics of a transcendentalist while Dickinson demonstrated the core ideas of a realist. Whitman grew up in New York City and became a teacher at the age of seventeen. He despised the profession and quit because he believed that it was absurd to force students to conform to society’s standards. Whitman’s life is…

An insect injecting me with its putrid poison frightens me, as it might try to take my life again. We all have fears, that consume us at times. In the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe a man’s guilty conscience plummets his mind into madness, murder, and eventual confession. A psychopath becomes mentally unstable, as he begins to obsess over his master’s pale blue eye. Furthermore, the psychopath comes to believe that the eye…

Claudia Espinoza Ms. Walsh English 9 HP 6 December 2015 Guilty or Not Guilty Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Claudia Espinoza, and I am the prosecutor of the case of Jack Merridew and Simon. Thank you for bringing your attention to this matter and listening to what I have to say. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, there is a difference between self-defense and an over-reaction. There is also a difference between what establishes reasonable doubt, and what adds up to just excuses made by the…