Grotesque

The setting of a story is especially important when concocting a tale of mystery and intrigue. In “The Fall of the House of Usher” Edgar Allan Poe captures a dark and mysterious mood in order to introduce the plot. Poe uses graphic language and dramatic imagery to create a mysterious and foreboding atmosphere throughout his short story. Poe begins his tale with a long drawn out sentence that packs in every possible detail of the narrator’s current setting. By doing this Poe creates a picture of…

The narrator’s presentation of the events is unreliable and uncreditable. This is because, the narrator is unreliable because, he is too unsophisticated. According to the article, “The Outsider”, “I must have lived years in this place, but I cannot measure the time.” This shows that the narrator can’t tell time so, there is no way to no how much time has gone by in any of the events that happens. The narrator says that he can’t remember most of his life. This shows that there might be…

“The Fall of the House of Usher” takes many of the literary devices that Edgar Allan Poe used in many of his other writings to create a world that shows why Poe is held in such high regard. Poe creates a tone that allows the reader to experience the same emotions as the narrator. The story beings with the narrator journeying to the Usher household to catch up with his childhood friend Roderick Usher. Despite not keeping in touch for several years the narrator goes to his friend’s home and…

The short stories “Sonny’s Blues” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” seem to have very little in common. However, they do share a struggle with the main character in each story. The protagonist in each story, is a suffering musician, dealing with mental health. Although each story takes place in a different time, both musicians manage to find solace in their music. Both stories here are showing issues of mental illness, as well as environmental effects. Religion and imprisonment also plays a…

Stephanie Williams Fall of the House of Usher ENG 102-82 July 05, 2017 The Fall of the House of Usher Elements Essay The Fall of the House of Usher is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe in 1839. It tells a tale of Roderick Usher and his sister Madeline, the mental and physical illnesses they battle, eventually leading to their deaths. Roderick Usher suffers from a mental state that separates him from sanity, and Lady Madeline, is thought to be dead, or buried alive. The main theme of this…

Raymond Carver is a popular American short story writer. Carver’s short stories consisted in a collection that all connect in one way or another. For example, in the collection, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? , all of the short stories are a continuation of the previous short story. Raymond Carver writes each story in a way that they all relate with a twist. He makes his readers think and figure out the hidden clues in each story. Carver’s main subject in majority of his work focused on…

On an ominous, dark night it was extremely evident that there was something lurking in the trees. The feeling of a secret was lurking amidst the swaying trees. Luckily, I was inside cuddled underneath a freshly knitted blanket that concealed my body from the cold. It was on this night that I vividly remember the story of the Woman in the Mirror. Being unfamiliar with the urban legend, my grandmother continued to ask if I wanted to hear it, but my mom’s ‘no’ ringed throughout the air. She knew…

Reliability of the Narrator’s Account in Poe’s ‘The Tale-tell Heart’ ‘The Tell-tale Heart’ is a short story written by the famous writer, Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in 1843 and was revised to its present form in 1845 (Seghir, H.M., Djelloul, B., & Noureddine, B., 2013). The tell-tale Heart is a story of a murder, told by the murderer, himself. It tells about an old man who is seemingly under the care of a young person. The relationship of the characters in the story was not…

Symbolism in “Trifles” Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles” is set in the early 1900’s. Throughout the course of the story, the main setting is in the kitchen. This would not sound so bad if we were not informed of other characteristics of the house. The kitchen and the house is described as gloomy and the overall sense of the house is just depressing. The first stage directions describe it as, “The kitchen in the now abandoned farmhouse of John Wright, a gloomy kitchen” (Glaspell, 772), and It is…

Literary Analysis Death is inevitable. Some people fear it, others hope it comes soon. As for the author Sylvia Plath and the character Huckleberry Finn, their stances differ. The story The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, portrays the main character, Huck, as terrified of death. While Sylvia Plath’s poem “I am Vertical” shows Sylvia as a person who is very intrigued by death. Sylvia Plath comes off as someone who would rather be dead than alive because she thinks it may be more…