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The Black Cat By Edgar Allan Poe

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The short story “The Black Cat” written by Edgar Allan Poe meets the criteria for a gothic conflict well in the sense that it follows a specific moral, as well as the protagonist finds a form of success as the plot resolves itself. Quoting the protagonist, “I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others” (6). The moral of this work is don’t become addicted to alcohol and if you do, reach out and get the help you need. Alcohol, as well as any drug, has the potential to alter an individual's ability to reason and act appropriately, as it did for the main character of “The Black Cat”. As this story progressed, he got to the point in addiction where, “the immense hogsheads of Gin, or of Rum, constituted
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In the poem “the Conqueror Worm, by Edgar Allan Poe,” mimes keep destroying humanity repeatedly; the angels that are watching can’t help the mimes, showing that life is a never-ending cycle of death. Mimes keep destroying humanity repeatedly, by the Conqueror Worm because of all the destruction they have done after going crazy. “A blood red thing that writhes from out the scenic solitude!” (4.3-4) Poe uses this to show us how death came when the mimes least expected it Angels that are watching can’t help the mimes, “And seraphs sob at vermin fangs” (3.7) Poe is telling us that all the mimes are dead and that the angels are mourning their deaths.

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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart” and “Click Clack The Rattlebag” by Neil Gaiman demonstrate a creepy and tense mood. “The Tell Tale Heart” follows a mad man who commits murder and tries to explain it away throughout the passage. “Click Clack The Rattlebag” is about a teen that is watching a child and discusses a spooky story while the teen unknowingly leads to his demise.

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What gives the reader that feeling of being on the edge of their seat? Why would he want the reader to anticipate what’s going to happen next? That is how the author expresses tension. The author does this by using literary devices. Edgar Allen Poe builds suspense in “The Black Cat” by using specific literary devices—foreshadowing, allusion, and slow pace.

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The Tell Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado are two fictional psychological horror stories written by Edgar Allen Poe. The two stories have many similarities, including that they both have main characters who murder someone, and have many compelling ‘evil’ traits to discuss. However, the character Montresor from The Cask of Amontillado is more evil than the Narrator from The Tell Tale Heart. This is because Montresor feels no kind of guilt over the murder he’s committed, and was completely sane while murdering his victim. Montresor has undoubtedly committed a malicious crime, but what arguably makes it even worse is that he both feels no remorse for what he’s done, and never faces any consequence for it.

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Poe wrote "the black death" at least two hundred years before the Ebola out break happened. So i do not think that he was talking about Ebola when he wrote it. Another thing would be the symptoms and expectancy of living. vomiting,diarrhea,and dizziness, where as read death's only symptom was bleeding from all areas. With the red death it took up to thirty minutes for the person to die but the Ebola it took up to three weeks for the victim to even feel the effects.

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Ruby Fetters Mr. Hemesath English 9 09 March 2023 Escaping Death No one can hide from death. “The Masque of the Red Death" is by Edger Allen Poe in the genre of short stories. This story is about a very wealthy man that uses every penny for entertainment.

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In the short story “The Black Cat,” by Edgar Allan Poe he created a mood that was uneasy and slowly inclined to disgust by creating a character that is addicted to alcohol, having a black cat around in the story, and by driving the narrator to cover up a murder. First, the mood of unease can affect the readers on page one when it says “I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others.” Even though the narrator has not yet committed a crime, he is more at risk to hurt something or someone at some point in the story. Also, on page one the unease and the beginning of disgust can be found when the narrator wrote “...my wife, who at heart was not a little tinctured with superstition, made frequent allusion

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In the "Red Death," Poe presents a very old theme. The story opens a detailed description of the plague which is called Red Death. It has destroyed the country, with the narrator describe the process of the Red Death, emphasizing blood red. The disease is so deadly rapid that one is dead within thirty minutes after he is infected. In beginning of the story, Edgar wrote all these words to create a horror of death caused by the "Red Death."

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Edgar Alan Poe has used various effective thoughts and feelings for the man and here are some examples and explanations: In the sixth stanza, in the first line of the poem called 'The Raven ', it is extremely clear that the man is both excited and miserable. The evidence to prove this is that it says, 'all my soul within me burning ', it creates a visualization of a soul burning both in curiosity and terror of who or what could be waiting at the door at this time of night. In the second line of the raven, in the sixth stanza, it says 'I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before. '

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In Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven", the narrator's state of mind is grief-stricken and insane. Poe uses literary techniques to tell a story about a mourning man and an ominous bird of yore told from the man's vantage point. Throughout the dreadful poem, Poe establishes mood, tone, theme, and symbols to show the narrator's state of mind. By using words such as dreary, sorrow, and dying Poe creates a dark and dreadful atmosphere.

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Morgan Lainge Ms. Mynatt English 2 Honors 27 January 2023 Analytical Allusions Through many of Poe’s works, he has shown and emphasized the importance of mythical figures. He has shown this by making the female characters captivating like goddesses, and comparable to angels, especially in his poems. Poe uses Roman, Greek mythology, and Biblical references to help readers understand his stories. Edgar Allen Poe’s works such as “To Helen”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, and “The Raven” all use mythical figures to express beauty through his characters, to describe horror through his allusions, and to create suspense through his stories and poems. Continuously throughout Poe’s works, such as “To Helen,” he writes about mythical figures to illustrate

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For someone who had lived as long as he had, such a major upheaval of the long-held status quo had been equal parts horrifying and thrilling. When the humans had begun dying in droves, it had been a shock to the system that had jolted him out of the complacency of his established routines. The problem was, once Draven and the world around him had recovered from that shock enough to settle into new routines, they found that the new normal was almost uniformly worse. Not that there weren’t some advantages to the world’s new scarcity of human beings; Draven could now move unhindered through spaces where, before the Devastation, he had always been a wary intruder. He could make a desolate home in civilization’s bones, with little

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A lesson that I have observed of is a literature lesson on “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe. The lesson began the day before with a brief introduction of Edgar Allen Poe as a person and a poet. She gave students background information on the poem then instructed them to read and highlight any passages that were difficult for them to understand for homework. She instructed students to pay attention to the rhythm, stanzas, and the mood while previewing the poem. She wanted the students to begin thinking about the plot, setting, characters and perspective.

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On this story the author Edgar Allan Poe sees himself in the suffering of the unknown narrator. He is a person who suffers a lot in his life and passes through a lot of things. Later, he begins to hate many people and things because of the suffering that he is passing through. On this particular story he has an old neighbor who is a blind person that has develop many other senses but he doesn’t have his vision. The author on this story loves the old man, except the fact that the old man has a blue pale eye and he hate it so much that he disgust his neighbor so he decides to kill him.

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The poem that I chose is The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe. First I would like to start off with a little background on the author. Poe was born in January 19th, 1809 in Boston, MA. His parents, both of whom were actors, died when he was 3. And in 1827 he enlisted in the army but was eventually kicked out because of lack of financial support.

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