Ligeia

For example an old foresight, which is commonly dull, inadequate, or frustrating, and connected with the house in a wide open or its inhabitants, either past or show; dream vision or indication of coming events; remarkable animals and events, for instance, inert things awakening; woman crippled by an extraordinary, hasty, or tyrannical man, who asks for the female to achieve something unbearable, are not shown in the novel. Then again other Gothic segments adding to an atmosphere of mystery can…

In Tennessee William’s 1945 play, “The Glass Menagerie” we are provided with many stage directions that help the audience understand the plays important aspects of the setting, as well as its central idea. The narrator and protagonist Tom Wingfield, takes the audience on a journey to a past memory of his life with his mother Amanda Wingfield, sister Laura Wingfield, and Jim O’Conner. In the play we are introduced to memory set in the city of St. Louis were Amanda yearns for her daughter Laura,…

Edgar Allan Poe is often referred as the father of Gothic and horror stories. He has wrote many works of mysterious characters and very bizarre plots lines. Of all his morbid works, they all have a commonality in setting, characters, and Gothic elements in The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Masque of the Red Death. Moreover, Poe has written work with similarities in settings. They all compose of a dark, mysterious atmosphere usually during the night and consisting of…

Alfred Noyes The Highwayman is a dark and sinister narrative is a dark and sinister poem that tells of a wealthy criminal and the daughter of a landlord ,Bess, who are deeply in love ,but it turns sour when the daughter is captured. Alfred Noyes creates a dark atmosphere by using dark twists and imagery. Alfred Noyes uses visual imagery to set the stage in stanza one “The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, the moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, the…

Roderick Usher, Madeline usher, and the narrator are three characters that change over the course of the story. As the story continues Roderick slowly starts to change. Mentally, Rodrick does a complete 360 in how he views things. Madeline was very quiet and didn’t have a lot to say. The narrator is an enigmatic character. He only exists in relation to the Ushers, and that relation is primarily as an outsider. Roderick is tormented by his own fear and his own admission. He doesn’t fear…

Descriptive details used in “The Cast of Amontillado”. On the short story “The Cast of Amontillado”, Edgar Allan Poe generates a mood of dreadful suspense that leads to horror. One of the primary ways in which Edgar Allen Poe creates a dark and foreboding mood in his story "The Cask of Amontillado" is using setting. It is in the pitch of night that Montresor happens upon Fortunato and invites him back to his abandoned estate. From there Fortunato and Montresor wander deep into the estates'…

After reading the “The Uncanny” it is clearly evident that Edgar Allan Poe the author of “The Fall of The House of Usher” used the theories within “The Uncanny” to develop his plot, character development and his entire story. The story written by Edgar Allan Poe takes place in a gothic scenery and is about twin, Madeline and Roderick Usher. The two twins suffer from a line of diseases that seems to be found in every generation. Before reading one knows that Poe’s style of writing is very…

Marcus Clarke’s introduction to the poetry of Adam Lindsay Gordon What is the dominant note of Australian scenery? That which is the dominant note of Edgar Allan Poe's poetry -- Weird Melancholy. A poem like "L'Allegro" could never be written by an Australian. It is too airy, too sweet, too freshly happy. The Australian mountain forests are funereal, secret, stern. Their solitude is desolation. They seem to stifle, in their black gorges, a story of sullen despair. No tender sentiment is…

Developing Mood in “The Most Dangerous Game” Throughout literature, imagery is used to create mood within a story. In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game,” Conner uses imagery in a multitude of ways to develop numerous moods that appeal to the reader. The imagery used to describe the setting appeals to the reader and engage the reader with the plot. In the beginning of the story, Connell uses imagery to convey a specific mood. Whitney says, “Sailors have a curious dread of the place.”…

The story “The Fall of the House of Usher” tells how two childhood friends the narrator and Roderick Usher after many years Roderick writes to the narrator and ask for help because of his illness that runs through his family. The mansion that Roderick lives in has been there for generations that has been passed down. The narrator is freaked out by the house because of the noises from the wind and the appearance of the mansion. Roderick’s illness is making him go insane as well as his sister…