House of Usher

“The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allan Poe wrote about one of his fears in his story “The Cask of Amontillado”. Imagery plays a big part in this story. It helps the reader visualize the events taking place in the story. Poe uses imagery to add fear and suspense to the story. Edgar Allan Poe uses imagery when he explains about leading Fortunato to the dungeon. “Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris.”(87-88) This…

In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the two main central ideas has structural and point of View evidence. Through his point of view, the narrator relates how he is feeling about the murder plan and his own terror. Poe uses punctuation to show that the narrator is anxious that his murder plans are going to happen. The two main central ideas are madness and obsession. Madness is the main central idea because their is a lot of structural and point of view evidence. In “The Tell- Tale Heart” this man keeps…

horror. To begin with, suspense is included in mostly every horror based movie, book, and tale. As Sharon Russell explains, suspense is “The tension we feel when a character goes into the attic, down into the basement, or just into the abandoned house”(17-19). Suspense is a key component to creating a horror story. The tension created allows a narrative to fill with further excitement. Poe creates this feeling throughout “The Tell-Tale Heart”, by emphasizing important details with his…

Ambrose Bierce is the author of “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”. The short story, often described as uncanny, takes the reader into an imaginary journey led by the main character, Farquhar as he is hanged. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” receives criticism on Bierce’s narrative technique. Critics such as Peter Stoicheff, Harriet Kramer Linkin, and James G. Powers, all discuss the purpose of the word choice made by Bierce throughout the story. Although Stoicheff, Powers, and Linkin…

to the foot of the descent, and stood together upon the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors”. (Poe, Page 8). Montresor us unable take Fortunato to just his house, but also to the tombs of his family. This adds to the thrill as the essence of eradication looms in the tombs and in the reader's mind. Lastly, the catacombs house all of the dead Montresor’s but eagerness is added because we know Fortunato will soon be joining them. Montresor does not kill Fortunato quickly though, both him…

"It's true! Yes, I have been ill, very ill. But why do you say that I have lost control of my mind, why do you say that I am mad?" Edgar Allan Poe is a famous writer know for his various literary techniques such as setting, imagery, tone, and suspense to create a particular mood in his stories. This essay will be an evaluation of the story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe. To begin, "The Tell-Tale Heart" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most prominent poems. I find "The Tell-Tale Heart"…

In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe, the reader is quickly introduced to the narrator of the story. The narrator begins the story by giving the reader a glimpse into his unhinged mind “I heard many things in hell.” The narrator then weaves a story about his unhealthy obsession with an old man, particularly the old man’s “Evil Eye.” Like most mentally ill criminals the narrator then tries to rationalize his crime by making himself the victim of the old man’s eye “it…

In what way does transformation play a role in stories meant to scare us? Transformation plays a large role in most stories meant to scare us. In these stories, transformation is what can either get the reader on the edge of their seat, or can change the story to much and make people lose interested in reader. In a scary story, transformation of something such as a character, or a setting, can build major suspense / fright which could be something the reader didn't expect “Beware: do not read…

new family who has just moved in into the village. Which is a couple with their five daughters and their family dog. The house they happen to choose is a unfrequented farmhouse. The house is isolated from other homes. The house has a dark presence roaming around not only inside but also outside the house. A relationship couple investigators got called up to investigate the house and why strange things have been happening at the same exact time at midnight. This has been the most tragic case the…

Although "The Cask of Amontillado" avoids one of the stamps of the Gothic, a ghostlike occurrence or agent in the story, Poe includes enough Gothic elements to put this story squarely in that tradition. A staple Gothic element is the setting, which is usually a run-down, mysterious castle, monastery or chateau. In this case, the setting is underground in the Montresor catacombs underneath Montresor's chateau--a damp, claustrophobic passageway, dripping with nitre from its proximity to a water…