The Grotesque

Edgar allen poe is a very unique writer. He tells stories that have a very scary setting. These stories are meant to be suspenseful. He puts characters in situations that we would only have nightmares about. Hd wrote the Pit and the Pendulum and Fll of the House of Usher. In pit and the pendulum,a man is trapped in a room and has no idea were he is. Its dark and he cant see very well. Using his hands to feel around, he uses a piece of cloth to measure the room. He find…

Like Ann in “the Painted Door” , Arthur Vickers of “One’s a Heifer” suffers life changing consequences because of the isolation of his setting. Because of his isolation, Vickers slowly began to become insane. The clearest signs of his insanity is seen through his eyes. They are described as being wavery and uneasy, alternating between warm and welcoming to “ deep and uneasy eyes “ (Ross 418). The author repeatedly mentions the look of his eyes, and put emphasis on their abnormality. His eyes…

“The Landlady” uses many techniques that identify it under the horror genre; such as imagery, foreshadowing, mood/tone, theme, plot/setting, and suspense. Roald Dahl uses imagery in this short story by vividly describing the events that occur. On page one, line 8, the author states, “But the air was deadly cold…” As a reader you can imagine the wind blowing onto your face, and feeling the bitterness, and the chill of the wind on a dark night. Page three, lines 261-263, show the comfort of the…

What makes you scared? Is it what you see, hear, or feel? While reading a book the author writes to put images in our heads. Once we have an image you can find the mood of the story. Imagery in “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “Windigo” helped create the mood of fear. In the story “The Fall of the House of Usher” Edgar Allen Poe used dark words to create the mood of fear. The first sentence of the story says “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year,…

Like Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher”, the house in Cortázar’s short story “House Taken Over” is a family house. “We liked the house, because, apart from it being old and spacious (in a day when old houses go down for a profitable auction off their construction materials), it kept the memories of great-grandparents, our paternal grandfather, our parents and the whole childhood”(128). The formation of the main characters, siblings like in Poe’s story, and their connection to the…

Almost every story that is written uses symbolism. Authors use this technique to give a object, person, or a situation another meaning than its literal meaning (definition). This makes the text have a deeper meaning. The story “The Fall of the House of Usher” is an example of this style of writing. Throughout this short story writer Edgar Allan Poe uses a collection of symbols in his eerie yet remarkable story. One of Poe’s many symbols is the title itself. “The house of Usher” is not only…

The Haunted Tell-Tale Heart Paragraph one A New Home Once there lived a feeble elderly blind man whose life was cut short by a crazy calculated killer who somehow, someway escaped and evaded the police from arrest Later in the distant future a family had bought a house from a peculiar fellow, this is their story It's seven o'clock am The house was clearly decaying, the interior of the house had worn-down white walls, portraits,…

In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Cask of Amontillado” Poe creates two mood in two different settings, the carnival and the catacombs. The first mood that is established at the carnival is a joyful mood, it then shifts to being suspenseful at the catacombs. During the carnival setting Poe uses a joyful and pleasant mood. When the the carnival setting first comes up, Fortunato approaches Montresor, “He accosted me with excessive warmth” (84). Fortunato is illustrating how he is excited to…

The descriptions in Edgar allan Poe’s story the fall of the house of usher are visual and can easily be adapted from words into mental images. He uses a method of gothic imagery which can be defined as, literature that focuses on human emotions such as terror and guilt. Gothic literature usually includes elements of an atmosphere of gloom, terror, and mystery. In the story Poe immediately introduces this theme, “with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my…

Edgar Allen Poe uses his words to describe a very moody and kind of dark places to tell his stories. And it gives everything a dark future its like he does not believe in the good things around him but only the bad. Always has something bad to say, nothing happy. Maybe its because he had a rough childhood. "THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge." It remind of when someone makes a pun towards your broken body part and…