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Gothic Elements Of Violence Essay

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Being angry about daily things is inevitable in human life, but what humans do with that anger is. Anger is a branch of violence that goes through many characters. Edgar Allan Poe writes in Gothic elements, for example violence. The Gothic element of violence can be found in many of his works. “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Black Cat”, and “The Cask Amontillado” show the Gothic element of violence. The first Gothic element of violence is “The Tell-Tale Heart”. The narrator has a very strong hatred toward the old man that leads to the old man’s death. According to Poe the narrator is violent, the narrator hears the old man’s heart stop, so he checks if he is really dead. So the narrator gets the old man and cuts him up and hides the parts under the floor (2). These sentences show violence because of the narrator killing the old man and amputating him. Also, the narrator is insane because he assumes that killing the old man is the right thing to do. The narrator has a violent point of view, “The mentally disturbed narrator explains, in an attempt to prove to the reader that he is not mad, how he …show more content…

Montresor, the narrator, goes mad on his own will. Montresor has a violent mind set, because “The horror, of the dark, of the unrestrained violence of a mind set loose from social boundaries, spring upon him, and he recoils. However, by touching the “solid fabric of the catacombs” he is reassured; the material world has triumphed over the dark of the mind” (Bloom par. 8). Montresor sets aside from the path of normal to a new path of insanity. Furthermore, Montresor visualizes about restraining Fortunato. Poe shows violence, Fortunato reached the extremity of the niche, he was stopped by rocks and stood confused, A moment more and Montresor would have chained him to the granite (11). Montresor thinks about violence the whole time he is with Fortunato. Montresor does not show violence physically, but

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