When the narrator does not leave the house till the house has completely collapsed the reader also starts feeling trapped. Since Poe also uses the word “house” metaphorically, the reader also learns that this confinement can symbolise the biological fate of the Usher family. Also, since the narrator had previously personified the house, by noticing its “eyelike windows”, the house seems to be in itself a member of the Usher family, which, when the last of the family members die, collapses on the previous inhabitants still bodies. Throughout his story, Poe uses the setting
I believe the most significant part of the Tess of the D’Urbevilles is located within the last few pages of the novel. The murdering of Alec promotes a feminist approach to writing which Hardy attempts to undertake in places throughout the book, empowering Tess. This contrasts with the in depth detail he usually acquires, which is not apparent in the description of the murder. The reader neither reads how Tess murders Alec or what the murder scene looks like, in order for Hardy to maintain Tess’s ‘purity’. Additionally, it is likely that the fact Tess murders was enough of a controversial subject, without Hardy having to describe it, to shock the readers.
The house's state of disrepair is a symbol for the moral, physical, and mental state of Roderick and his sister. Illness is obvious in the two, and the house, which used to be a grand estate, has sunk along with the death of the last two Ushers. So, it is a complete "fall" of the house and the family whose name the house carries. The Narrator arrives at the House of Usher in order to visit a friend. While the relationship between him and Roderick is never fully explained, the reader does learn that they were boyhood friends.
However, the murder of the old man is not the climax of “The Tell-Tale Heart;” it is when the police arrive at the scene of the murder (although they do not know it yet) that the unnamed protagonist reveals that he has murdered the old man and hidden his body beneath the floorboards (Poe 193). At this point the story ends and the mystery of motive unresolved. However, there are several themes dispersed throughout the story, such as themes of insanity, time, and death and destruction of others and of the self. These themes leave many scholars wondering how they fit together to understand as to why the narrator kills the old man. The theme of insanity is easily recognizable and plays a large role in “The Tell-Tale Heart” to why the protagonist murders the old man; However, in “‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ [readers only see] the results of madness, not its origins” (Symons 241).
In their life they have different responsibility between married people and single people. For those who remain single, they do not have to divide their loves to a partner. They do not have difficulty in their lives to take care a family. In contrast, people who are married have a tough in their responsibility towards their family. Married people must share their loves to the family and take care of their family.
He takes in all of the small details of Roderick Usher’s house: “the vacant, empty eyes”, “the melancholy structure”, “the details of the reflection” and connects it to Usher’s current condition: broken and torn. Usher informs the narrator that he intends on burying his wife and sister: Madeline Usher, a request the narrator accepts. After this event, the narrator begins to experience extreme agitation and illness, the same condition as Usher. For the next week, he receives heightened senses as a result of the illness. He begins to hear faint footsteps, ones the average human ear cannot hear, and to see the luminescence of Usher’s paintings, even though there is no lighting.
'Perfume' tells a story in which the protagonist’s precarious position between olfactory prowess and lack of body odour motivates a string of despicable murders. One possible interpretation could be that the protagonist’s ‘ontological crisis’ comes about because of his absent mother, therefore, his lack of morals and resulting actions against women are a direct result of this earlier treatment. The amoral actions we see later in Grenouille’s characterisation could be a direct response to the events depicted in the opening chapter. Suskind chooses the structure of the opening chapter deliberately, to open the story in a way that both foreshadows and emphasizes the murderous actions of the protagonist and possibly hint that such actions are a direct result of the protagonists treatment at the very beginning of his life. Indeed the circumstances of Grenouille’s birth might prompt a feminist interpretation to look at what happens when a child is abandoned and raised without a mother.
The use of repetition in first person point of view helps to stir some emotion of the unknown. It creates the suspense of not knowing what will happen next. By using first persons point of view, Poe was able to illustrate how the narrator feels. An example of this is when the narrator uses the phrases at the beginning to question his existence. The narrator wanted to know if he was mad, or not.
The Fall of the House of Usher: My Reflection The Fall of the House of Usher is a fantastic novel for horror-lovers. At the end of the novel, there is a feeling of something being missing, a subtle melancholy of sorts, as the House of Usher crumbles into the tarn. Roderick Usher, the current owner of the House of Usher, is emotionally bound to the house, which in turn has given Roderick an illness which makes him much more sensitive to minute details than regular people. Roderick seeks comfort, thus writing to a friend and asking him, the narrator, to come and stay with Roderick. Roderick’s sister, Madeline, suffers from a similar disease but she is dying off, like “a flower without water”.
Inside a killer's mind “You can’t use logic on human behavior.” (Jeff Lindsay, Darkly dreaming Dexter). The short story "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe is a story of disturbing events, foul play, and revenge. What's so disturbing is the lengths Montressor goes to gain his 'revenge'. How we get such insight is through the wonderful written first person view of Poe. Point of view can be so crucial to a story.