The “Cask of Amontillado” is a significant example of how a literary masterpiece can be written as a work of horror. The retelling of this thrilling story is believed to take place sometime in 1794, but is not told by Montresor until a half a century later (Edgar Allan Poe Society). Poe uses Montresor to address the audience to make the reader more involved in this intriguing short story. Poe uses mysterious ways of telling stories throughout his different works, and he has written some of his works based on problems he faced in his own life. Poe loved writing about tragedy and death and “The Cask of Amontillado” is based just on that.
Many people were taken in by this nineteenth-century writer’s harsh outlook on life in his work. One is capable of only imagining the things that Edgar Allan Poe has, throughout his deeply saddening and depressing time here on earth, brought to life in his writing by simply printing in words different sections and scenarios of his ambiguous life. Edgar A. Poe lived a very somber orphan life which later became the foundation to the origin of his gothic nature and writing. Poe is recognized as a genius who reinvented the gothic tale of mystery and horror for his time (Introduction 1). Poe placed the reader inside the tortured minds and lives of people confronting the supernatural.
Edgar Allen Poe is a writer and poet who, even in his own time, is highly recognized for his bizarre and fascinating stories. Most of his pieces involve death and murder, and they also question the character’s sanity. Many of his stories have been turned into movies and his great work has inspired many modern authors. One author in particular is Stephen King. Mr. King has won numerous awards for his work and is considered one of the greatest writers alive today.
Even though both of the authors are notorious for their “horror” style of writing that emphasizes death, their expressions of guilt, murder and life in general these emotions are portrayed very differently within their works. The first aspect of both Hitchcock and Poe that is evident within their work is the commonality of storytelling techniques; they both possess an obvious love for storytelling and solving mysteries of their lives and the world. Poe has been writing mysteries before mysteries were labeled as genre; while Hitchcock is considered as the master of mystery movies. Both build on mysteries from the beginning to the unfortunate end of their stories and works. This is evident of throughout two their pieces, “Psycho” and the “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Poe
About anyone within the world of literature could connect The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and The Masque of the Red Death together with their unnerving connotations. Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe refined bloodcurdling stories for that time and both helped in setting the bar for horror. Two themes found in Poe and Irving’s work include Ignorance and Imagination vs. Reality. Edgar Allan Poe’s work portrayed much spook.
The Red Masque of Death and The Fall of the House of Usher Jason Zhou Edgar Allen Poe is a poet that is well known around the world for being a master at writing dark, spooky, and death-related poems. He also writes short stories, in which he doesn’t forget to add plenty of descriptive language, in which he uses many ghostly, gloomy, and spooky adjectives. One of his works, The Fall of The House of Usher, is a story densely occupied with eerie descriptions of everything throughout the story, especially the beginning. In short summary, it starts out with a man whom is to visit an old acquaintance, named Roderick, in his mansion to take care of him and his sister, who are both both physically and mentally ill. The narrator gradually gets the feel that the mansion is somehow haunted by ill-willed spirits and that staying any longer in the house would not end well.
John Mackey Mrs. White Honors English 10/ 4th period 4 March 2012 Ironic Downfall into the Catacombs The literary devices irony and foreshadowing are used to accent one another. Edgar Allan Poe craftily uses both of these devices in order to make his stories tricky and deceitful to the characters but obvious to the reader. As the devices intertwine they allow for stories to become more complex and meaningful. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”, Poe uses irony to foreshadow Fortunato’s downfall through the Montresor coat of arms, the origin of the characters’ names, and the use of the Free Masons. The Montresor family crest, the human foot d’or, accompanied by its motto, Nemo me impune lacesit (No one insults me with impunity),
Henry James: Master of Perception Henry James cleverly played with his readers’ perceptions in The Turn of the Screw, deliberately making his story ambiguous, thus allowing the book to tell several different stories at once. It is designed to make people think about it, pull it apart and reconstruct it. Henry James writes in a purposely elusive manner, challenging readers to make their own decisions about what story the book is actually telling. Perception is not just how we see reality; it refers to a sense of awareness and understanding; a recognition or appreciation of moral, psychological or aesthetic qualities (dictionary.com). Readers of the nineteenth century had themselves a ghost story, which satisfied the fashionable fascination with Gothic horror.
Poe is known for his dark poems, and short stories, he has three main literary classics. Edgar Allen Poe changed the history of American Literature by writing about dark horrific subjects, he was considered as part of the Romantic Movement. Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 and he died in 1849 due to an unknown cause, before he died he wanted to make a journal called “The Stylus” (americanliteature.com). His work life was successful it included many short stories and poems that were complex to understand, but his childhood and home life was one of the roughest a child could have. Poe had financial problems beyond fixation.
I can easily understand why the short story made such an impact in the literary and medical worlds. However, I have a hard time understanding how the story is enjoyable to read. Personally, I could not sit through the story and finish it in one sitting. The repetitive language and obsessive nature of the narrator gets extremely irritating. While other gothic tale’s we’ve read in class have been spooky, ironic, or at least entertaining, I feel that this story is literally sickeningly long.