Yoldi Villa Ms. McSweeney English 1 Honors March 21, 2023 Love is stupid. Time and time again humans are made stupid because of love, and yet they can’t seem to bring themselves away from it. In joy or in sorrow, humans always seem to find their way back to love over and over again. Like love, a motif is a recurring element.
Death awaits us all Death, it is scary is it not? One may even attempt to evade death. The man in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” thought that his great wealth and power could shield him from the inevitability of death. This story takes place in the middle of a city that has just been contaminated with a deadly plague named “The Red Death”. The plague gets its name from the violent death its victim experience before they die; excessive bleeding through the pores.
When a person says “I”, they open up a piece of themselves to another individual. Since the author was brave enough to share her emotional story with me, I felt compelled to fully hear out her argument. Pathos and first person makes the reader more vulnerable or easily swayed into the author’s opinion because he or she is emotionally affected by the story. “Running did not get easier, but I grew stronger”, she claims. By using “I” in this statement, her statement becomes more powerful.
People have always tried to avoid death, but they cannot. In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” the characters are trying to avoid the Red Death, but they fail. Every hour an ebony clock chimes indicating that life is passing and death is close. People begin to die every minute once the Red Death enters.
“The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe, “Prey” by Richard Matheson and “The Feature Pillow” by Horacio quiroga have same themes. Which is Violence and entrapment. The authors uses these 2 themes to show the readers specific view of what is going on in the story, describe the scenes vividly and to power up the scares of the story. In the “The Black Cat” there is a quote that says “The kill of his wife through head with ax.”
American author Edgar Allen Poe illustrates how an individual’s internal chaos and anxiety can drive him insane. It is emotional narrative using pathos where Poe tells a dark murderous story through vivid characters, a puzzling plot and a setting that I found unique. First, the portrayal of the characters plays a fundamental role in the creation of the plot, without strong characters, the ideas might appear simple. Poe creates vivid characters which effectively assist the construction of the plot and ideas.
In Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe, many symbols are used to justify the overall purpose and meaning of the story. These symbols include the ebony clock, the seven chambers, the scarlet and black room, and the Red Death itself. Each of these symbols help characterize the Prince and his guests, along with foreshadowing the overall outcome of the story. First of all, the seventh chamber and ebony clock not only provide a sense of eeriness, but reveal the underlying personalities and outcomes of the characters. For example, Zapf writes, “In the process of the story, of course, the seventh chamber more and more becomes the center of attention, and with it the clock of ebony which symbolizes the structure of temporality underlying and terminating all human
Edgar Allan Poe was a talented poet who was famous for his poems and short stories. In fact, Poe was such a great writer that he was able to have a career through writing alone. In his poetry, Poe is able to make readers feel emotion and a connection to his poems by using writing tools such as imagery and word choice. Throughout many of Poe’s poems imagery is used to help readers visualize a picture in their mind of what is happening and understand the emotion of the poem.
From Plato to Parthenon: Unveiling the Timeless Influence of Classical Greece on Modern Western Civilization By Marcella Syrdahl @ UoPeople 2023 Classical Greece had a significant and long-lasting impact on modern Western civilization and culture. The legacy of Ancient Greece may be traced in many areas of current Western society, from its democratic values and educational techniques to its literature, art, and architecture. In this paper, we will investigate and present examples of how Classical Greece affected current Western society and culture, referencing relevant sources. We will investigate the effect of Ancient Greek administration, education, literature, art, and architecture on Western culture, emphasizing the ancient civilization's
Edgar Allan Poe’s use of literary devices to show the how fear of the characters in his stories are both helpful and harmful to them. Poe shows how the fears and obsessions of the narrators in his tales either lead to their inevitable death, or their miraculous survival. Edgar Allan Poe uses many literary devices in his texts, such as symbols, ironies, and figurative language, to show the strange and distorted ways of the characters, and the repercussion of their fears and obsessions. In Poe’s stories, a literary device he uses frequently throughout his stories, are symbols.
Edgar Allan Poe utilizes a Narrative Writing style with a Gothic theme, with most of his works featuring the main character narrating the events around them, albeit being unreliable narrators who only tell the story from their side, a great example of which would be The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado. Furthermore, he employs the use of a plethora of literary devices and intricate diction in many of his literary works. An example of which is The Raven, wherein the writer makes use of symbolism through the raven that stays with the narrator throughout the story, representing the narrator’s grief and also symbolized as a messenger of death by the narrator, thinking that the raven had a message from Lenore, His beloved, for him. But Alas, his hopes were dashed as he continued to ask the raven, with the raven only replying with “Nevermore’’ he gradually spirals from grieving to madness, attempting to drive out the raven perched on the sculpture of Pallas Athena. Another example would be in The Cask of Amontillado, wherein wine symbolizes the foolishness of Fortunato, who allowed his pride of being a connoisseur of fine wine to get the best of him which allowed Montressor to trick him, eventually leading to his demise due to his hubris.
Poe uses the repetition of the thoughts and feelings of the characters to show how truly and utterly insane they are. In the poem, The Raven, Poe repeats the word “Nevermore” (stanza 8) to reveal how the character is going crazy from the death of a loved one. In an additional story, The Tell Tale Heart, Poe uses this repetition to manifest the displeasure and lunacy of the character, who is obsessed with watching
In Edgar Allan Poe’s tales of criminal insanity, the first-person narrators confess unsound confessions. They control the narrative, which only allows us to see through their eyes. However, they do describe their own pathological or psychological actions so conscientiously that they exhibit their own insanity. They are usually incapable of stepping back from their narratives to detect their own madness. The narrator 's’ fluency is meticulous and often opulent.
Edgar Allen Poe was a well-known American author, born on January 19, 1809, who wrote the story “The Angel of Odd” (Merriam Webster 1). Poe has always been a popular writer who writes poems, short stories, and novellas with “an aesthetic of obscureism” (Garrison Jr. 1). “The Angel of Odd” is a short story about a man who believes that all the odd occurrences and odd deaths that he sees in the paper are simply made up. The man is later visited by the Angel of Odd who shows him that odd things can happen with bad luck. The main literary devices that this story demonstrates are irony, symbolism, and suspense.
This essential theme is presented directly. This is the method that Poe chose to achieve his unity of effect. But Poe wants to achieve an effect a total, unified effect in order to show the close proximity of the revelry of life and the masquerade to the inevitability of death itself. Poe's story possesses no real characters. The greatness of the story lies in his use of an age-old theme the inevitability of death and in the way that Poe creates and maintains a total unity of effect, he brings us into the horror of the story.
