A common phenomenon that is shared amongst a large number of the texts that are on the course syllabus is that the protagonist, or one of the supporting characters, has more often than not faced a moral dilemma in which their actions and choices caused negative consequences. In The Cask of Amontillado, by Edgar Allen Poe; The metamorphosis, written by Franz Kafka; Punishment, by Rabindranath Tagore; The Diary of a Madman, by Lu Xun; the short story The Guest, written by Albert Camus; and The ...
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It has been strongly argued that our routine language, however mundane it may appear, may be as poetic, precise and intentional as literary texts, leaving the literary and non-literary divide blurred. Linguistic creativity has been defined as the ¨way people use literary-like features¨, associated with poetry and highly valued literature, yet the definition of creativity is extremely broad, with researchers acknowledging the creative process, as well as the final creation as creative. (Swann, ...
Edgar Allan Poe is most known for his short stories containing the same gothic themes. In most of Poe's stories all the characters sound alike but in The Cask of Amontillado Montresor is different and has his own voice (Morsberger 336). In the act of committing a crime, it is for certain the criminal will do anything to justify what they have done whether they are right or wrong. The Cask of Amontillado is the confession of a man whose thoughts are subject to mortality. The murderer, whose ...
Both Edgar Allan Poe and Toni Morrison explore the psychologically fracturing nature of trauma, by portraying hauntings as an intrusive return of the past. The complex mother-daughter relationship in Beloved amplifies the fracturing effect of slavery and Sethe’s and Denver’s personal psychological damage represents the wider, deeply rooted cultural trauma caused by slavery in America. Denver is presented as afraid of her own mother, expressing her trauma, saying that although “I love my ...
On an autumn day, our storyteller goes the House of Usher, seeing which renders the day significantly gloomier than some time recently. He takes looks of the house's 'eye-like windows' and feels a 'despondency of the soul' that is practically identical just to the way an opium junkie feels when he returns to reality. He can't choose precisely why he feels so hopeless, so he reasons that there are only some odd things in life you can't clarify. The storyteller approaches the pool that lies ...
Left for dead, drunk, in the deep catacombs, surrounded by six million dead corpses, perfectly stacked for two hundred miles. No one would want to be in this claustrophobic situation which would frighten anyone to death, let alone read about it. It might be easy to write a short story that's a little scary, but one that leaves one on edge for the rest of the week? Now that skill is not as easily obtainable. Yet, that is exactly what Edgar Allan Poe did in “The Cask of Amontillado”. In this ...
In Edgar Allan Poe’s story, ”The Cask of Amontillado," the narrator, Montresor, lures down his archenemy, the wine connoisseur Fortunato, into the catacombs under his palazzo to taste a wine called ’Amontillado,’. As the story continues, the very deceptive Montresor buries his former friend, Fortunato, alive deep down in the dark catacombs, with the parting words ”In pace requiescat!” (19) What Poe’s readers have been conflicted about since the story’s very first days, is whether the main ...
Edgar Allan Poe was an American critic, poet, and short story writer. He was best known as the father of detective stories and known for his dark imaginative storytelling and writing. Behind his amazing work there is an even more intriguing life story. Poe, born in 1809, had a very dark and sad fulfilled life. With his father leaving when he was 1 to his mother dying when he was 3 he had a difficult childhood. When he was adopted by the Allan's his life only got a little better with a loving ...
Writer Stephen King once said 'Monsters are real, ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win.' These words perfectly describe The narrator from Edgar Allan Poe's short story 'a tell-tale heart'. The Narrator is presented as mentally and physically ill, Poe shows this by his hatred of the old man’s evil eye, it consumes him to such a degree that he spends every night waiting for it to open so that he can feel enough rage to kill the old man. But later, he becomes crazy ...
Have you ever finished watching a horror movie at the movie theatre, and while walking out to your car the mixture of the bone chilling wind and darkness the seems to seep into every corner makes the aftermath of the movie worse then the movie. If you were at home wrapped up in your warm blanket then the aftermath wouldn’t be as bad. Edgar Allan Poe uses the same idea through setting and imagery to create an uneasy, dreary, and unsettling mood.
In the very beginning of this short story the ...
Do you really think that you know what suffrage or torture is? If you think that you know what it means to suffer or what a bad torture is, that means that you have not read the story The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Alan Poe. The setting of the story is at 1400s and the story talks about how the death sentences of the inquisitorial people was and how they made people suffer. It also talked about how the actor have hope to get out of all the “traps” and have hope to escape from the dungeon. ...
Trust is important because it's the basis around which all human relationships revolve. Without trust, there can be no relationship. There are different types of trust for instance when someone is there for you like, your friend or your sister you usually naturally trust them. It's alarming to think about how we trust people who are affectionate and compassionate towards us. We usually assume he /she won't harm us, people who eat interact with may not be who we think they are. Tell Tale Heart ...
In The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe writes of a sickly brother and sister that live in an old town. The story is scary and focuses on two similar levels. One of the levels of scariness is the psychological aspect of the story. The most evident is noticed just by reading on the outward, is the creepy atmosphere of the house, and the death of the main characters. The narrator makes this level of scariness very accessible by the diction and imagery that he uses throughout the ...
Many authors and poets attract readers with their unique and ways of writing and their skills of drawing a reader's attention. Edgar Allan POE was an author and a poet who used crazy and unique topics to draw his fan's attention. Edgar Allan POE is said to be the gateway to modern literature and an influence on modern-day writers. Allan was the first author to encounter and write horror and crime books. Edgar was a crazy man who reflected that craziness into his poems and onto his writings. He ...
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” is told from the protagonist’s point of view, and it provides an account detailing how he transitioned from a loving and kind man to a one filled with rage, which ultimately drives him to murder his wife. In order to understand the protagonist’s motives behind his onset of rage and eventual committing of murder, one must look more carefully into the depths of the character’s hypothetical mind. Studying Poe’s protagonist from a psychoanalytical standpoint ...
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Full name
Edgar Poe
Date of Birth
January 19, 1809
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died
October 7, 1849 (aged 40)
Occupation
Short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor
Movement
American Renaissance
Notable works
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), "The Mystery of Marie Roget" (1842), "The Purloined Letter" (1845)
