The Masque of the Red Death

The Bloody Chamber is a novel filled with short stories. The short story I chose to read was the first story of the book, The Bloody Chamber. It is about a seventeen year old girl marries a rich old man and claims to have definite love and affection towards him. She notices the small flaws about him that make him seem almost dead such as his stone cold eyes. Though, she refused to leave him. Her mother expresses dissatisfaction at the marriage but does not tell her daughter not to go through…

views that readers can assume the authors have on matters of life, such as tragedy and death that are present throughout life; which also leads to ideas upon human nature in relation to goodness. All of these qualities are analyzable and provide the authors with their own recognizable style. An observation that can be made by…

seem like a strange man because of the stories he wrote, but most of his stories were inspired from his own life. Death, addiction, and emotions, were all a part of Poe's life incorporated into his writing. “The Red Death had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous.” (Poe, “The Masque”) Many of Poe's stories, like this example from “The Masque”, consisted of people dying from disease. These stories also attribute to his own life. Many of Poe’s friends…

innocent, beautiful young woman who dies a horrible death and yet, very strange death. There are many other works like “The Oval Portrait”, like Annabel Lee, and The Fall House of Usher. These stories have a connection to Poe’s mother, his Foster mother, and his wife who all died of Tuberculosis. Poe has also written a story about a disease resembling tuberculosis, The story is called “The Masque of the Red Death” it is a disease called the Red Death which spreads like wildfire. When someone…

When the genre of horror was first introduced, it used the mind against itself instead of gory, jump scares that only lasted for a little while. The use of death and dying is a common idea that horror writers use to achieve the thrills they want their readers to feel. Edgar Allan Poe and J.S. LeFanu are two authors who have mastered the art of using the mind against itself in their horror stories. Writing in the same era, they both use the same techniques but with differing views on how the…

“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe is told in first person from a mentally insane murder. This story, told in first person narrative, is the most effective because it shows the mindset of the killer and also his motives for his actions. The things he does and thinks are not sensible. For example, throughout the whole story the narrator is trying to convince himself that he is not crazy. Even though his motive to kill the old man was because his eye had a “film over it” (373), which was…

The Red Death v. Ebola Poe was not talking about Ebola when he wrote the story “The Masque of the Red Death”. The time is all wrong for when Ebola was even around. The time it takes for the disease to kill them is different from how long it takes you to die form Ebola. Also the transportation was not good back then it would of taken them days to get from where they live to Africa. Just take the story and the article and compare sense the story didn't give that much details on the detail.…

Are you an only child? Do you have siblings? Almost everything in our lives makes an impact on us. Edgar Allen Poe, an american writer, had many things that affected not only him but his writing. Looking back on his life, and maybe your own as reading this, you'll find out what affected Poe’s writing. I believe that we are shaped by ur past. It makes us who we are and affects our future in various important ways. Edgar Allen Poe, Poe for short, was and still is a very well known writer. His…

Death, this very thing can terrify people to the point of mental and physical impairment, it can also turn people into cold hard shells of their former selves. Most people when confronted by death will tremble with fright, unable to move or think. A fraction of others stands unquivering when faced with death. Then, there are those who meet death without a moment to think. Prince Properso, met death in this way, in the story, “Masque of Red Death.” Prince Properso met death suddenly without…

Poe Paper Edgar Allan Poe was widely known as one of the best authors of the Dark Romantics era. The dark and creepy characteristics of his stories and poems presented the characters as sinful in his works and looked into the dark side of the mind. Poe’s works are influential today as they are studied all over the world and used as the basis for the subgenre of the Dark Romantics and what the era of stories and poems really represented. Not only Edgar Allan Poe, but Nathaniel Hawthorne, and…