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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…

Edgar Alan Poe wrote among many short stories, The Masque of the Read Death. Although the title sounds horribly eerie, the story itself succeeded in becoming even creepier. Disease, known as the Read Death, struck a kingdom, killing off many subjects very gruesomely. The ruler, a prince known as Prospero, did nothing to assist in treating those ill, or preventing others from contracting Read Death. Instead, he ran, hiding away in a secluded castle, with noblemen, and entertainers. After six…

“Her decease,” he said, with a bitterness which I can never forget,” would leave him (him the hopeless and the frail) the last of the ancient race of the Ushers.” This quote is from “The Fall of the House of Ushers” and it explains that the Usher siblings, Roderick and Madeline are the last ones in their family, and the fate of their family line lies on them. But what is not explained is that the siblings have a strong bond. In the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Edgar Allan Poe…

The Cask of Amontillado “The truth of your character is expressed through the choice of your actions” (Dr. Steve Maraboli). Edgar Allan Poe had a gift for making his characters come alive in his stories. Not only is this quote relevant for society today, but it also correlates perfectly with the main character, Montresor. Throughout “The Cask of Amontillado,” Montresor shows the reader numerous times that his character is vindictive, manipulative, but yet shares a valuable learning opportunity…

Under the circumstances of the fact that England was under oppression at the time, James Joyce wrote Dubliners in order to illustrate the sickness Ireland was suffering of, to point out its paralysis by means of the novel: “Impatient at the restrictions of life in Dublin, he concluded that Ireland was sick, and diagnosed its psychological malady as hemiplegia, a partial, unilateral paralysis” (Walzl, 1961, p. 221). Joyce envisioned Dublin as the image of complete paralysis so he decided to write…

Edgar Allen Poe uses the literary device of setting to create a dark tone, threatening tone in his short story, Tell Tale Heart by including Locale, Man Made Geography, and Mood and Atmosphere. The Locale in Tell Tale Heart is in the old man's bedroom. Due to the story the bedroom is supposed to make us safe. When you feel something is watching you. When someone watches you you feel scared and unsafe. Another locale is in the house, and at the house you feel safe at day. When night comes…

"The Fall of the House of Usher" is about the usher household which only had two surviving members which are Roderick and Madeline Usher. Roderick Usher is a man filled with fear of dying and is worried about his family name going extinct. Madeline Usher is the last female in the small household of Usher and is the sister of Roderick. Madeline has a very strange cataleptical disease which makes her stay sleep for long times which makes it hard to tell if she's alive or not. In "The Fall of the…

To begin,The Fall of the House of Usher written by Edgar Allan Poe a gothic style type of literature.This story gives off a the the reader a lengthy story and a unhinged sense while reading this story.Poe use the description of a worn down house that has rotted and look not the same as the narrator remembers it as his childhood .This story also has subtle about of if the charters going mad and may be an mental ill person because of the way his persona is described as . To include , In…

Edgar Allen Poe had a difficult life. His mother, Foster mother, and his 1st wife Virginia had died from TB. Which makes his work often similar. Edgar Allen Poe uses dark and suspicious setting. In “fall of the House of Usher” the author says “the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year” the setting can create later on tension in the story. In “Masque of the Red Death” it says “the Red Death, had long devastated the country.” This adds to the suspicion of “The Masque…

Death and dying are major components of gothic literature and Edgar Allen Poe was the king of writing scary stories. Poe’s three stories: “Masque of the Red Death”, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, and “The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether” are all perfect examples of the impact that death and mortality have on humanity. The “Masque of the Red Death” was about how an atrocious disease called the “Red Death.” The disease was fatal and horrid and killed half the kingdom while Prince…