The Pit and the Pendulum

A person’s surrounding tends to affect a person’s work despite their occupation or location. Edgar Allan Poe had many tragedies occur throughout his life. He didn’t live the ideal life like we assume most authors do. Despite his circumstances, he reached beyond his past to produce some amazing poems and stories. We are always told to make the best out of the situation that we are given and Poe clearly adhered to this. Poe took the worst parts of his life and turned them into amazing horrors that…

the mistakes that make humans who they are. Overall, this type of literature reflects negatively on the human population and society in general because it brings values and human behavior into questioning. For example, in Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum,” the pendulum symbolises death and its imminent arrival in life. This showcases the darker elements of his writing and the depths in which he explores different aspects of life and human nature. Nathaniel Hawthorne also touches on this…

diction that is so common of Poe’s preceding prose writings. However, “The Lighthouse” shares similar themes, such as isolation and paranoia, with numerous Poe stories. These themes are especially evident in “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, and “The Tell-Tale Heart”. The diary format is also similar to “The Balloon Hoax” and “MS. Found in a Bottle”. All of these stories, while differing immensely in content and plot, could help determine how Poe would have finished…

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…

The Tell-Tale Heart Research In 1843, Edgar Allan Poe’s 2,200- word first person unreliable narrative short story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” was published. Edgar Allan Poe was a successful editor, literacy critic and American writer who wrote short stories and poetry. The Tell-Tale Heart is known for its unnamed narrator’s insanity and classifies Poe’s writing as a gothic fictional story. The narrator explains in the opening of the story that he killed the old man, but it was not for passion nor…

July 2, 1776. The British colonies in the new world have gathered as one nation. Thus, the United States of America was born. However, this did not come without sacrifice. Once the Declaration was written and sent to King George, the war had begun. Again, April 12, 1861, not even 100 years after the American Revolution, the American civil war had started. Brother against brother. Each conflict had their own rebellion and response by the authority but each had very different outcomes. September 3…

In the short story,”Usher II,” it helps readers visualize the setting by using allusion from other pieces of literature so that they could connect it to the story. In the story, Mr, Stendahls biggest challenge is to stop the people who are burning everyone's books. As he is talking to Mr. Bigelow about how important the books are for people, Stendahl states, “As of this day beware. The House of Usher is open for business.” (Bradbury 3). This is an example of allusion because he is talking about…

Understanding Poe in depth Edgar Allan Poe was an American author who wrote in a dark romantic tone. As a writer he wasn’t as successful as he was after his death. Poe 's short stories were based on gory self humour. Poe had many tragedies in his life. Most of the people he loved in his life left him or died. Due to these tragedies Poe 's stories were often dark. Poe creates a unity of effect in each one of his stories. Some of his short stories leave readers questioning what will happen next…

comes a consequence. Warped minds, paranoid nights, and twisted emotions are all repercussions of the double edged word: fear. Fear can either cause the obsession with death or survival of hope. The characters in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and “The Masque of Red Death,” experience terror, but each handles it differently, causing a variety of results. Poe weaves symbolism, irony, and figurative language…

theme differed from story to story, but the three most common themes he wrote about were: death, obsession, and madness. For example in the short story, "The Premature Burial" a man obsesses over his burial and begins to lose his mind. In "The Pit and the Pendulum", a man is afraid of getting the death penalty and goes to great lengths to avoid a life-threatening event. This is shown through the following quote, "The sentence- the dread sentence of death was the last distinct accentuation which…