House of Usher

Throughout Edgar Allan Poe’s life, he has gone through many harsh experiences, such as losing his mom and wife to Tuberculosis, which is the basis for his great stories. Poe’s goal is to leave the reader with an emotional effect of the horror of premeditated death and the sadness over the death of a loved one after reading his stories. These emotional effects are show in “The Tale-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” “Hop-Frog,” “The Raven,” and “ Annabel Lee.” Edgar Allan Poe’s style is…

In reading The Rocking-Horse Winner and How to Read Literature Like a Professor, an overarching similarity between these two works can be seen with the presence of a type of ghost in the household (as described by the third chapter in Foster’s work). This ghost deviates from the traditional definition and represents that which is ubiquitous in contemporary, as well as past, life. Foster describes ghosts as ideas or acts that weigh down upon characters and “haunt” them, so to speak. The ghost in…

In the story the Tell-Tell Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator commits a crime. What was it you may be asking? Well let’s just say it got a little messy… The narrator had committed a murder crime by killing the Old Man that lived in the same house as him. Really creepy right, and this is how it happened. This is all based on revenge, but not how you would think. The Old Man and the narrator had a good relationship, and you are probably wondering why he wants revenge, but the Old Man has a…

In the story “The Tell Tale Heart” Poe has created fear and dread in many different ways through out the tale. The best way I think he creates fear and dread is through his descriptive words and how he tells every detail of how he does everything. In the beginning of the story Edgar explains of how whenever the narrator has eye contact with the old man’s bad eye, he feels something that makes him feel bad, “Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees --very gradually –I made…

In many of Poe's works, Poe uses many literary techniques to help contribute to the story. In the story "The Cast Amontillado", by Edgar Allan Poe, Poe uses; suspense, setting, and tone to help contribute to the story and set the mood of horror and dread in the story. In the text, the author's use of suspense drastically changes the mood, which is easily seen in the short story, and as found in the text, " It wasnotthe cry of a drunken man. There was then a long and obstinate silence.", which…

Many authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King use literary elements to create horror and suspense. In the novel We Always Lived In The Castle, Shirley Jackson masterfully uses multiple literary elements throughout the course of the book. Jackson uses language, word choice, gothic elements, and ideas of mental illness to create a work of subtle suspense and horror and a message that extends beyond the Blackwood mansion. An aspect of horror shown in this novel is the unreliability of the…

Edgar Allan Poe's short story and Annette Jung's screen interpretation of "Tell-Tale Heart" both show a common theme of how all actions have a consequence. Gazing upon the Old Man's chilling eye, working up the nerve to kill him, the mad man hated the evil eye. But once he does, his guilt ,the beating of the dead man's heart slowly hounds his conscience.The character's thoughts, morals, and emotions help depict and guide the readers along the story, as well as to get them to understand the…

“The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead” (“Poe’s Life”). Poe moved around a lot during his life and ended up meeting up with his childhood sweetheart. Poe moved to multiple cities and was trying to promote his poems. His final city was Baltimore where he was found dead. Since Edgar Allan Poe has died there has been no evidence or proof of how he died. There are many different theories on how Poe had died; my…

Edgar Allan Poe makes extensive use of literary irony in many of his short stories. The irony is defined as the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect, in his story's to make the story being told more interesting. Poe incorporates irony to make his characters more intriguing both verbally and situationally. In Poes stories, my favorite type of irony that he uses is verbal irony because it is very interesting…

Nicholas Emery Professor Garmann Freshman Year Seminar 110-02 October 31, 2017 Is Aschenbach a Genius Aschenbach lived his life as a very disciplined and hardworking writer who had written great works and was quite well renowned and often considered to be a literary genius. Early in the novella, Aschenbach begins to look for a way to escape his disciplined, dedicated life, and his literary fame many only dream of. Aschenbach's interaction with a weird man near a local graveyard is what leads…