Buried alive, unreliable narrator, setting “I had walled the monster up within the tomb!” the black cat. Edgar Allan Poe was a sad and strange little man. When he was alive and an author, he wrote several stories. For example; The Black Cat, The House of Usher, and The Pit and the Pendulum. In these stories, he used several types of gothic literature technique, like Buried alive in The black cat, and the Fall of the House Of Usher. Unreliable narrator in the Black Cat, and setting in The house of Usher. Lets elaborate on that shall we? In the story of “The Black Cat”, Poe uses the gothic technique of being buried alive. As the quote that was used at the beginning of this essay, shows that the narrator, buried the monster, or the cat that made him kill his wife, was in the tomb with his dead wife! Poe also uses this in “The house of Usher” when Rodrick buried his sister alive in a tomb and tried to tell The narrator she was dead. That's the example of being buried alive …show more content…
In The Black Cat. In “The black Cat” poe does not give us a lot of details which makes it spooky and let our minds figure out for ourselves. The example of this comes from the story itself “This hideous murder accomplished, I set myself forthwith, and with entire deliberation, to the task of concealing the body.” Edgar does not state if he cleaned up the blood, what he did with the ax, or how he stopped the smell. That is how Poe uses unreliable