Edgar Linton

In the end, death has the final word. In Edgar Allan Poe’s dark short story “The Masque of the Red Death,” Prince Prospero invites the remaining healthy members of a community to hide away in his quarantined castle while the outside is plagued by the personified Red Death. Once Death enters the castle, it leaves no survivors. In “The Masque of the Red Death” Poe often depicts his characters’ actions as insane, but seemingly normal and fails to recognize that they are ludicrous; he then rejects…

From the “Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allen Poe, “Chac-mool” by Carlos Fuentes, to “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl. Not to mention, Antigone by Sophocles, Mr. Penumbra 's 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan, and Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, my interest in a variety…

From the Spoon River Anthology, the poem "Minerva Jones" by Edgar Lee Masters, in the epitaph, the speaker introduced a woman named Minerva Jones who is a poetess. Assuming by the speaker, "Hooted at, jeered at by the Yahoos of the street" Minerva Jones is not quite admired by folks, she is mocked and insulted by others. It is indisputable that Minerva Jones had a rocky relationship with others. Throughout the text, the speaker not only discusses but mentions others involved in her tragic…

made clear that the setting leads to these characters becoming murders. Lastly, it is evident that these characters have been predisposed to become murders through their personalities. Because of negative intentions fueling their power, Montresor in Edgar Allan Poe’s “ The Cask of Amontillado” and Frederic Brown’s “The Weapon” suggest that individuals who possess a large amount of power become murders. When individuals think their motives are justified. Things start to become deadly.…

The More You Know, the Better You’ll Poe The most vital things in the creative process are death and alcohol, right? No, but they were for Edgar Allan Poe, the morbidly great poet. Setbacks occurred rampidly for him, but he saw past them in his own, strange way. Drawing from personal experiences with death and grief, Edgar Allan Poe, a beautifully sadistic writer, was the most unique of his time, in turn developing vivid images and heartfelt emotions in his readers. Straight from the start,…

Proving Allegory in “The Masque of the Red Death” “The Masque of the Red Death” is an allegory written by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was an American writer who wrote short stories about mysteries and horror. This allegory is about a plague called “The Red Death” spreading throughout a city. A noble prince invites all of the city’s wealthiest people into his secure abbey to save them from the plague. In this abbey all of the guests are protected from getting sick until one evening when the giant…

A Revengeful Murder Edgar Allan Poe is known for his dark, mysterious short stories; “The Cask of Amontillado” is a prime example of one of them. A main theme present in this story is revenge and that is constantly made known through the use of irony. This story is set in a European city in a year that was never clarified. In “The Cask of Amontillado” two main characters that are very different from one another experience a conflict at some point. During the story Poe describes their journey and…

I’ve decided to connect my project to the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” by the famous American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe. The genres that this short story fits in are tragedy, gothic fiction, short story, horror. Therefore my project will be displayed on the artistic manner. In this short story there’s many little, but vivid details that are given by an unnamed narrator. I will be using many of the details that are given on my canvas. The fundamental of this short story is…

While Ed told me the FBI provides enough finances and/or time to enjoy hobbies, family, vacations, your free time can be minimal. As an FBI agent, you are on call (24) hours a day (365) days a year ("Interview with Ed Buckley."). Most people in the FBI are the type that the only thing they love in life is their job, their job is everything to them. You don’t get a lot of time to hang with family and friends whenever you please. It would be especially hard to have a family while being in the FBI…

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched” (“Edgar Allan Poe: Death”). Edgar Allan Poe a mad man whose life was catastrophic, and expressed his pain through his work with literature. His short stories influenced many young authors to study his work and write their own. On January 19, 1809 Edgar Poe was born to two traveling actors Eliza Poe and David Poe Jr. A month after Poe was born his parents were back on the road leaving him with paternal grandparents…