Essay Edgar Allan Poe How does Poe make his stories entertaining? Make close reference to two of his stories to explain your ideas. Edgar Allan Poe makes his stories entertaining in many different ways. He tends to use the same techniques to attract the audience’s interest, such as creating characters, who share similar ways of thinking. They’re all devious, perfectionist, dramatic characters, who have the irrepressible need to kill someone, due to reasons which are either clarified or simply not mentioned in the text.
The Tell-Tale Heart Assignment: We notice that some details in Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” make a literal reading of the story rather difficult. Advance and defend a figurative reading of the story consistent with the story’s details. Poe seems to focus on creating mood throughout his story. Many symbols in this story are interpreted in several different ways depending on the reader. These symbols throughout the story include the old mans eye, the heartbeat and the contradiction between love and hate in which I will be talking about in this paper.
“The Things They Carried” is a text that focuses on writing as a form of coping with trauma and discusses how exaggeration is sometimes needed in a story to convey the message that the story-teller is trying to get at. An example of this is when the author talks about how for Rat Kiley “facts were formed by sensation” (89). Kiley is described as telling his stories as though they are intended to be tragedies, even the funny parts. This is because there is an underlying sadness to every war story, even though humor can be found in them. Part of this may be attributed to the ‘education’ each soldier received when they first went off to the war.
It is a tale of betrayal by both protagonist and antagonist. One of the best parts of this story is the long, long build-up to the final part, the tension and anticipation just get almost unbearable. In a way, this story is similar to the works of O. Henry, who really perfected the idea of the surprise ending. And Poe leaves us wondering whether the protagonist ultimately feels so happy after all with his revenge. In the story Edgar Allan Poe writes in first person point of view, from the perspective of Montresor, the diabolical narrator of this tale, who vows revenge against Fortunato.
Intention is used commonly and very clear in this novel. The author uses a lot of rhetorical questions to get the reader thinking. He lures in the reader with a lot of dramatic irony to get the reader thinking. His intention is for the reader to keep flipping the pages in order to figure out the true ending to the story. In the story the writer begins it with a causal story line, he later follows it with very elusive and interesting concepts to help build the story up to its climax.
In this essay I am going to explain how Henry James sees characters interesting by how they respond to particular situations. To do this I am going to use Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” and Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”. Both of these stories were very interesting to me. Let’s start first with “The Tell-Tale Heart”. In Poe’s story, the narrator was a very nervous man but doesn’t want the reader to think he is insane.
The Hunter or The Hunted Suspense entices readers when reading stories to continue reading on, and it keeps them interested in the story. In Richard Connell’s story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” the reader is fascinated with the narrative and with the increase of tension and suspense in the story, so much that he must read on. Richard Connell makes effective use of literary devices, particularly powerful foreshadowing and vivid imagery, to increase tension and suspense in the reader. Richard Connell employs powerful foreshadowing to cause the reader to feel suspense in the story. In the beginning of the story, Whitney’s consideration of the fear of the prey and Rainsford’s dismissal illustrates foreshadowing.
A pot of tar is described as a “boiling cauldron” which relates to witches and magic; witches, more often than not, use magic to cast curses on others. This also creates a sense of foreboding. Although Arthur Kipps’ surroundings are continuingly being described in an evil manner, his own emotions are also continuing to be buoyant and exhilarating. He states that he retains “a schoolboy’s passion” for railway stations and journeys on steam locomotives. Having a “schoolboy’s passion” for something shows that you are excited and thrilled about it; in other words, Arthur Kipps’ was feeling optimistic about his journey to come.
The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe was a great writer of the nineteenth century, one who wrote about suspense, mystery and horror. He thrills his audience with suspenseful stories, short stories and poetry. Edgar lived a very troubled life, first, marked by the death of his parents and then by the death of his wife. The subjects he chose for his stories and poetry were very dark in nature, which mirrored his life that was plagued with gambling, drinking and mental illness. Some would say that these elements in his life made him the brilliant writer that he was.
The Hold Guilt is one of the most powerful emotions within a man’s consciousness, it can change the course of a man’s outlook and behaviour for life. In the two following short stories we the cause and effects of guilt.“The Black Cat” and “The Tell Tale Heart” are two short stories written by Edgar Allan Poe. Although they are two separate stories, they share a likeness between the theme and plot. The shared theme in both stories is: Guilt will always make itself evident in time. In both stories, the two narrator experience guilt for their previous actions.