Similarities Between The Raven And The Fall Of The House Of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe, a unique individual with questionable stories, creates many outstanding works. Using the Gothic element of mystery and suspense abundantly, Poe also uses multiple other elements of horror in these texts to portray the stories. The Gothic elements contribute to emphasizing the story and feelings of the characters in their wild lives. In “The Black Cat,” The Raven, and “The Fall Of The House Of Usher,” these components reveal the insanity of Poe during his time. Poe uses metonymy of gloom and horror and the devil to portray the atmosphere of mystery and suspense in The Raven and in “The Fall Of The House Of Usher”;however, “The Black Cat” differs because the doppelgänger increases the mystery and suspense in the text. Throughout the three works, the metonymy of gloom and horror conveys the atmosphere of mystery and suspense. “The Black Cat” uses horror by showing the narrators “wonder and [his] terror [was] extreme” after he hangs the cat (Poe 2). The narrator

Poe murders the cat, Pluto, and begins to feel guilty for his actions while at a bar. At the bar, the character sees a cat sitting on the shelf with the liquor that “closely resebl[es Pluto] in every respect but one” which then follows him to his car. The character takes the cat home to then realize a mark on its stomach resembling a nuse, how the narrator killed Pluto. Leaving his guilt behind, the cat then goes missing after murdering his wife. When the police show up at his house for an investigation “a cry, at first muffled and broken, like the sobbing if a child” comes from the wall where the narrator buried his wife (Poe 5). The cat then fell out of the wall with his wife which then made the police arrest the character for the murder of his wife. The doppelgänger of the cat portrays suspense because of the cat running away, finding out where it is, then sabotaging the