The Cask of Amontillado

The short stories, My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke, My Last Duchess by Robert Browning, and Ozymandias by Percy B. Shelley, all incorporate characters who promote the plot. While there are noticeable differences between each poem, the similarities stand. Differences include variances in plot, types of characters, and unique writing style integrated by the authors. Similarities that unite the three poems involve the various characters having a role to further the generality of the plot. 4…

In the novel A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, there are many ways in which Ebenezer Scrooge is redeemed by Jacob Marley’s ghost and the three Christmas Spirits. The novel’s setting starts in London where there are serious world problems lurking. Dickens, throughout the novel, does not stray far from showing the importance of maintaining good humanity in one’s lifetime. Dickens depicts this through the main character, Scrooge, showing his redemption from the beginning and end of the…

Ah yes, Nathaniel Hawthorne. He’s definitely one of my favorite writers and he makes such an impact in short-stories like an author can make with an entire novel. First of all, “Young Goodman Brown” is such a chilling and creepy story, and if it was written today, you could probably find it highly ranked on CreepyPasta.com. Secondly, when I began taking a closer look, I saw Hawthorne’s clever use of symbolism. I particularly noticed this in his repeated mention of Faith Brown’s pink hair…

“Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them,” (Bacigalupi). Two stories, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber and “The Interlopers” by Saki, provide compelling information on the ways that authors use style. While theme is not necessarily a concrete concept, it can be argued that these two stories share a similar theme: “things are not always as they seem.” This theme is important…

Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher “The Fall of The House of Usher” is a dreary tale of a descent into madness, the unnamed narrator goes into detail of just how gloomy the house truly is. The introduction to “The Fall of The House of Usher” sets up a very gothic mood, Edgar Allen Poe does this by using dark descriptive words. “The theme of The Fall of The House of Usher” is a descent into madness as the usher house was once lively and is now dead in a sense. When the narrator…

The Adventure Of Tom Sawyer is a literature, written by Mark Twain, who was an American humorist and novelist. His vivid imagination, keen sense of humor, and sharp wit resulted in some of the most beloved classics of American literature. In this novel, the frequent use of the conversational rule of Black English, which constantly reminded me that it is about black Americans. Mark Twain was also good at the use of contracted forms which is very common in black oral English. Above all let me come…

Compare and Contrast Essay: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe and "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl Both short stories "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe and "The Landlady” by Roald Dahl are gothic, mysterious stories. The authors (of both stories) make the stories exciting for the reader due to the tension and suspense they create. There are some clear differences between the two stories, but also some similarities. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the narrator is the main character in the…

“The Tell-Tale Heart” is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe, which a story that revolves around the vivid memory of the narrator’s calculated moves, from inception to the murder itself. The narrator bares his soul, and his strong sense of paranoia to justify his sanity, but in the end, confirms his ‘madness’ by the vile act of murder he commits. The narrator reveals the profound truth, of how untruthful and deceiving the human heart could be, and at the same time, how it can be…

An air of gloom, anguish and despair, with a hint of melancholy and a feathery apparition haunting the mind of a young scholar who is burdened by bereaved love and has secluded himself behind his chamber door, in a room full of bittersweet memories. Such is the work of Edgar Allan Poe, specifically, that of The Raven. Published on the 29th of January 1845, The Raven instantly became a hit and Poe’s most famous work. Oftentimes when discussing the gothic genre, many may immediately think of Poe,…

1. Introduction One of Edgar Allen Poe's most famous short stories is "The Tell-Tale Heart", which was first published in 1843. The story is told by an unnamed narrator, who describes in a very detailed way the murder he committed. His victim is the old man he lives with/ he is living with. The narrator's only and not very justifiable reason for his deed is that he is afraid of the old man's vulture eye and that in order to get rid of his fear he has to kill the old man. After his deed is done,…