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motives for trying to control the impression they receive of the situation” (199). This is due to his or her intentions to have a positive effect on the audience. By applying this thought of Goffman in the story “The Cask of Amontillado” written by Edgar Allan Poe, we can analize the purpose for Montressor to present himself in a subtle way when he meets with Fortunato. Goffman explains how people, like Fortunato, “can rely on assumptions as to the persistence and generally…

Many people have a lot of different believes and each person has a unique way of thinking. There are many different ways that peoples’ interpretation varies from story to story. The Masque of the Red Death is a story written by Edgar Allan Poe in the 1840’s. For the one hundred and seventy-five years it has been released to the public, people have fought over what the story symbolized. This story symbolizes the seven stages of life, birth, youth, adolescence, adulthood, old age, imminent death,…

When thinking of death, the fear of dying comes to mind. Fear and death will forever be associated in a person’s mind because no sane person wants die. Edgar Allan Poe is known for his twisted mind when it comes to his stories. Death is always a constant factor in his stories, and those deaths have sometimes resulted from fear. Poe’s use of fear and isolation shapes his writings into what they are, mysterious and intriguing. Without these constant themes, Poe’s works might not be as famous as…

Edgar Allan Poe is considered to be one of the darkest Romantic writers of his generation. He made several notable mystery tales and was the creator of the crime detective genre. He did not get his inspiration from other literature nor his surroundings. He used his own personal experiences that were known to be horrible and miserable such as the loss the loved ones. Poe expressed his personal feelings and thoughts into his own work. Some of his writings were short stories and poems such as…

Edgar Allan Poe was a well-known writer from the 1800s. He dealt with many hardships growing up. He was born January 19th, 1809, and died October 7th, 1849. Poe’s father left him when he was very young and his mother died of tuberculosis. After the passing of his mother Poe was taken in by the Allan family. While living with the family, John Allan, his foster dad did not like Poe, but Frances Allan loved Poe like he was her own son. Poe and Frances were very close but shortly after living with…

Hop-Frog is a dark revenge story by Edgar Allan Poe, that perfectly captures human capacity of evil. In Dark Romaticism, the protagonists are similar to antagonists because they are all prone to sin. The “good guy” would have a dark side and capacity for evil. As such, The protagonist in Hop-Frog is portraited as cruel and inhumane as his nature. With that being said, All the characters malevolent motives and actions are indicative of the Dark Romantic Movement. Hop Frog and his friend…

brought a far-reaching change in USA. Inventions, women’s rights and xenophobia prevailed. Because immigrations were a serious fear for people. Originally the word xenophobia comes from the Greek words “xénos”, its meaning is 'the stranger ' and 'the guest ' and “phóbos”, meaning 'fear ' (“Xenophobia”). So it caused a violent group named “Ku Klux Klan”, Red Scare and a book named The Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy. Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is a violent group with a long history and it…

Fear and helplessness can provoke different emotions from different kinds of people, in different situations. “The Masque of the Red Death”, a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, is a pestilence that is spreading in a fictional land, the disease resembles one of today formally known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever. It might be said that “The Masque of the Red Death” was based on a mixture of the concepts of Ebola and the Black Death (Bubonic plague), which reigned terror in the fourteenth century;…

desperately but vainly to conquer his fear of fear itself. His wide reading in his extensive library, his interest in many art objects, his playing the guitar and singing to its accompaniment, his attempts at conversation and friendly communication with his guest — all seem piteous efforts to hold on to his sanity. The battle is finally lost when Madeline, risen from her grave and entering through the doors of the guest’s apartment, falls upon Usher and bears him to the floor “a corpse, and a…

Tragedy strikes because of a fear, an emotion, or something much stronger than the human life. Such monomania leads the vulnerable towards the direction of death. Calamities were commonly exerted throughout the 18th-century gothic literature of Edgar Allen Poe to articulate the horror and pain he experienced. He was emerged in such turmoil, with the death of all the ones he had loved. Poe reciprocated this sadness into his own works. Using the vagueness of the storyteller, he creates…