Willy Russell

The “Cask of Amontillado” written by Edgar Allan Poe is a thrilling short story about seeking revenge through a murder plot. This story is not only interesting, but it also has incredible detail. Through his use of carefully constructed characterization, diction, and irony, Poe creates a mood that is both chilling and horrifying. Throughout this short story Poe uses characterization to build up suspense and to strengthen his writing. Without Fortunato's character there would not be a story.…

Science Fiction is an extremely popular TV genre, with its proof being its long-running longevity through the history of television. There can also noticeably be three forms of science fiction; ‘stories of travel through space (to other worlds, planets, stars), stories of travel through time (into the past or into the future) and stories of imaginary technologies (machinery, robots, computers, cyborgs and cyber culture)’ (VIII, Roberts, Adam. 2006) it is through these three categories that…

Bible students began analyzing the Bible and comparing it to doctrines taught by the churches. Then, they began publishing books, newsletters, and journals, which is now called The Watchtower – Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. A man named Charles Taze Russell, took the lead in Bible education work and was the first editor of The Watchtower, yet he was not the founder. His goal was to promote the teachings of Jesus and to follow the practices of the first-century Christians. Since Jesus is the…

Imagine being hated because of your disabilities. Then when you go out into public everyone stares at it. The narrator in “The Tell Tale Heart” is sane not insane because. First, the narrator stalked the man using very good strategy. At midnight every night the narrator would go into the old man’s bedroom and shine the light directly at the “evil eye.” That is proof that the old man is completely sane. “But even yet i refrained and kept still.”(The Tell Tale Heart pg. 204) Next, the…

Edgar Allan Poe used the literary device of setting to create a dark, threatening tone to his short story, “Tell Tale Heart.” Edgar Allan Poe used the literary devices of him when he stayed in the dark while he hid from the old man, when he used the lantern to cover it to only shine light on the vulture eye, and also his heart beat when the police arrived to the home. The man would go for 7 nights and spot the vulture eye of the old man. He went every night to check on the old man and on the…

In a society, fear is a negative tool that can make people do insane things. Fear can lead one to lie, fight, runaway, etc. In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, fear caused the narrator to kill the old man. The narrator thought he feared the the elderly man’s eye, because the eye was perpetually watching the narrator. In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, Edgar Allen Poe utilizes fear to reveal the actions partaken by one’s fear, and illustrate that one can do insane things, when full of fear. Poe exercises the…

SS 4 Answer the following questions on both stories completely with specific references to the stories. Identify the points of view as one of the following: First person, Third person Limited, or Third person Omniscient. Is the narrator a participant or non-participant in the action of the story? “The Tell-Tale Heart” 1. What is the point of view ? The story The Tell-Tale Heart uses the third person Limited Omniscience point of view. The narrator sees events through one character’s eyes and…

Poe creates fear and dread through many different things, one is through characters. One character he uses is the narrator; the narrator is insane. He hears things like the heart beat of the old man. The narrator keeps giving us more and more reason why he is insane. One is that he watched the old man while he was sleeping for 8 straight nights. The narrator slowly opened the door slowly every night until he could fit his head in. “It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so…

In “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the author uses aspects of setting to illustrate the atmosphere of terror. Indeed, he uses aspects such as time and place to put an emphasis on the feeling of terror. Firstly, the old man’s bedroom is pitch black: “His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness” (56). Darkness suggests the unknown, which frightens the man since he doesn’t know what to expect. The old man is alone in a place where his sight is lacking. The five senses are…

“Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.” is a famous quote by the famous horror author Edward Allan Poe. A horror story needs several horrifying elements. It needs a scary setting, a great deal of suspension, and a creepy source of horror. The “Tell- Tale Heart” by Edward Allan Poe has all of these. In the story a old man has been given a crazy caregiver. The insane man believes that one of the old man's eyes is…