Grotesque

In “The Fall of The House of Usher” Edgar Allan Poe utilizes many parallels between Roderick, Madeline, and the House of Usher. Poe uses many parallels some of these being fissures, similarities in style, and even deaths. First of all, the fissure is the widest parallel across the story, “extending from the roof of the building in front… made its way down the wall in a zigzag direction” (Poe 323). Moreover, the fissure has many explanations, one being, the main character and his sister were…

Edgar Allen Poe, in his work “The Fall of the House of Usher”, brings the sinister consequences of inbreeding front and center, in a way that informs, yet entertains, the reader. One of many themes, inbreeding is key to fully understanding the plot and messages of ‘The Fall of the House of Usher” and fully engaging with the text. Poe is able to enter into scientific discourse and discuss both the physical and psychological penalties of inbreeding by making sinister implications about Roderick…

Madeline’s Nonexistence In Edgar Allan Poes’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” readers are left contemplating whether or not Madeline is still alive or if she is just a figment of Roderick’s and the narrator’s conscious. Throughout the story, we are given supporting evidence for both sides, but the reader must choose which they are going to believe. At the beginning of the story, we learn that Roderick is going insane and that he can not see the difference between reality and fantasy. In…

Inbreeding: It is something that we feel, as a society, we have moved entirely away from, and yet it still haunts and evokes a deep fear within us that something so sinister could have happened among us. Edgar Allen Poe, in his work the Fall of the House of Usher, brings the sinister consequences of inbreeding front and center, yet he still manages to do it quite subtly. One of many themes, inbreeding is key to fully understanding the plot and the deeper messages of the Fall of the House of…

The opening scene of “The Fall of the House of Usher” immediately welcomes us to a mysterious environment and a false sense of reality. The story seeming dream-like moves to the narrator approaching the feared house and a family member ushers him inside swiftly. While there an unnamed narrator experiences many supernatural activities and sees a constant connection between the house and its owners. He finds himself questioning his senses and psychological state when he concludes that an…

“The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe has its place as one of the strongest examples of Gothic Fiction in the literary world to date, and is therefore a spectacular candidate for close analysis. The most particular and interesting part of the odd short story is its style; more specifically how it’s style emphasises the allegorical nature of the work. Among the more unusual devices that Poe uses to deliver his message is the language and sentence structure within the text, which not…

1)Author’s style and examples The Catcher in the Rye has a very dark and melancholy tone. This comes from the word choice that Salinger implements into his writing, which includes many vulgar terms and words that provoke sad thoughts. It is the repetition of words, such as goddamn and depressing that help create this dark tone. This also allows the reader to understand Holden Caulfield’s personality. For example, it is very clear to the reader that he does not like celebrities because he…

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, and A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings are two short stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez that are both very similar, yet very different. Marquez was a popular author of short stories from the 1950s to 1970s, he had a very noticeable aesthetic where he created very unusual, and unrealistic situations, but somehow shows human faults. This makes it to where if readers truly read the book, and realize what Marquez is trying to do, they can look at their own…

Tichborne's Elegy – Literature analisys Tichborne's Elegy was supposedly written by himself before his execution, due to his involvement in the consipracy to assissinate Elizabeth I (P. Burns, J. Edge, 43) . In his poem he is using metaphors upon metaphors, together with antithesis to construct a poem that shows his frustration and regret. He uses a plain and simple language. In fact, the whole poem is based entirely on one syllable words. However, his use of one syllable words only add to the…

Edgar Allan Poe is known for his mysterious and suspenseful short stories. His stories have an air of madness and his character development is impeccable. In the story A Tell-Tale Heart, Poe proves himself even more with his excellent character development to the unnamed narrator. He writes about the narrator who believes himself not to be mad, but is motivated to kill a man because the man's eye scares him. This essay will discuss the character development of the narrator, and how he copes with…