The Masque Of The House Of Usher By Edgar Allan Poe

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The period of gothic writing was a transformative era of literature in the United States. Gothic literature included multiple authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, and, most famously, Edgar Allan Poe. These authors used writing style in their literature to create feeling and display themes. Poe wrote what he knew, morbidity and tragedy, as he was a troubled man and faced multiple hardships throughout his life. In some of his most famous short stories, “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”, he used common gothic styles such as imagery to display mood. First, in “The Masque of The Red Death”, Poe uses imagery to set the mood. For example, near the end of the short story, the man with the mask enters