Short story analysis of: The Cask of Amontillado By: Edgar Allen Poe In one of Edgar Allen Poe's best-known Tales of horror, "The Cask Of Amontillado," he suggests that pride can be a very dangerous thing. ... From one of these depended a short chain, from the other a padlock. ... Poe also implemented styles of realism and gothic into this story. ... Poe in this particular story used the first person participant narration in which the Montresor ("I") is narrating the story where other characters as well as Montresor participate. ... Another literary device Poe used many times in thi...

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Best known for his short stories flooded with mystery and the macabre, Poe is recognized as one of the foremost masters of horror that United States has ever produced. ... Furthermore, in his review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales, he defends short story as preferable to the novel and states that the ideal short story should be short enough to be read at one sitting in order to preserve this unity of effect or rather impression. ... "2 On that account in Poe's short stories every aspect of the tale contributes to its overall tone, including the motif of madness. ... Therefore th...

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Above all of these devices centers Poe's use of diction throughout the short story. ... This is continued throughout the rest of the short story with the use of many similar adjectives and descriptions. ... The goal of Edgar Allan Poe in all of his short stories is to convey one particular effect to the reader. ... I agree, in this short story a man comes to visit his friend Roderick. ... In conclusion I feel Edgar uses both characteristics, human perversity and ratiocination in the short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher ...

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Lovecraft and the examinations of his short stories have been numerous. ... In his short story, "The Sneering-, it can be analyzed in regard to symbolism, tone and characterization. ... The short story, "The Sneering-, has an interesting plot structure. ... Through the study of Ramsey Campbell's life and short story "The Sneering-, one can deduce that the author is adept to creating a psychological horror. By emphasizing symbolism, the tone and characterization the reader can come to understand the deeper meaning behind the book, and fully understand the plot infrastructure of the sh...

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Edgar Allan Poe is an infamous writer best known for his poems and short fiction. ... Over the next ten years Poe established himself as a poet, an editor and a short story writer. ... Most importantly, his short stories are brilliantly entertaining. "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" are two short stories written by Edgar Allan Poe. ... "The Tell-Tale Heart" is one of Poe's many short stories where the protagonist experiences madness, suspense and a form of torture. ...

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This idea is clearly portrayed throughout the poem "The Raven" and short story "The Tell-Tale Heart". ... Just as in "The Raven", Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart", is told in the first-person this time by the killer himself, who has obviously been locked up in a prison or in an insane asylum for his crime because of his detached ramblings. ... Things that that killer obsesses about are brought up several times in the short story. ... Poe incorporates himself into his short stories with his dark, poetic writing style as means of representing the evil in him as well as ...

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Prime examples of Poe's sadistic style of writing can be found in the short stories entitled, "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Cask of Amontillado." ... Even though Poe immerses both stories with dark romantic gloom through his graphic sensory images, the subject of each story contrasts in many ways. ... "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Poe is a short story about an individual named Roderick Usher who invites an old friend who he hasn't seen in many years. ... "The Cask of Amontillado" is also a short story by Poe that is solely about revenge. ... "The Cask of Amontilla...

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In the beginning he was introduced as a poet then he became a famous short story writer of the uncanny, but he kept writing poems. ... Characters are the main instruments of a story which helps readers to relate and understand the story. ... After reading some of his short stories and his biography I found his characters more interesting and I decided to write my paper on a few of them. In my paper I will focus on some of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories to analyze the perfect combination of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and his characters. The protagonists of Edgar Allan Poe'...

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In the case of the chosen pieces, short story "William Wilson"" by Edgar Allan Poe and the poem "The Tunnel"" by Mark Strand, both stories slowly draw the reader into an empathy with the main characters. The short story by Poe forces the reader to attempt to find veiled redeeming qualities within the main character, William Wilson. ... Strand, on the other hand, chooses the short verse as a means to transport the reader into the world that he has created for the main characters and one that must be completed within the mind of the reader. ... The theme of both stories is obviously the concept ...

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The  doppelganger  is a literary technique in which a double (or look-alike) appears in the story as a representation of evil. 2. ... The phrase has a long history in literature, and was popularized (and perhaps coined) by Edgar Allan Poe in his short story, "The Imp of the Perverse." 2. ... THE INP OF THE PERVERSE IN POE'S "THE TELL-TALE HEART" Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," is a short story very similar to the same author's later published story (essay) called The imp of the perverse. ... What is truly shocking about these stories is the way in which the act o...

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Edgar Allan Poe was known to the world for his horrific, jaw dropping short stories and poems and also for being a literary genius of his time due to the unfamiliar writing style he presented. ... Arthur Conan Doyle says "Each [of Poe's detective stories] is a root from which a whole literature has developed, where the detective story was until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?" Dupin was a fictional French Detective initially appearing in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", which was considered to be the first detective fiction story. ... In order to create the h...

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"The Fall of the House of Usher," " a short story published in 1939, is one of the most popular fictional narratives of Edgar Allan Poe. ... This mythic tale, and Poe's other terror short stories alike, aims at arousing readers' sense of inner disgust or terror, as Poe himself stated in his preface to "Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque"" (1840) that the terror he meant to create was "not of the Germany, but of the soul." ... As the story moving forward, more and more unexpected events popped out and what capture us in surprise were Lady Madeline's burial, her reappearance...

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But how do the authors of these short stories keep the reader exited and focused? ... He practically started the story by using foreshadowing. ... Putting foreshadowing in the beginning of a story is an excellent way to start a story because that way it keeps the reader's attention at the beginning of the story. ... After the policemen had arrived, the story's pace quickened. ... Also in the story "The Tell Tale Heart", Edgar Allan Poe used character development to enforce the suspense in his story. ...

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The conventions of the detective story and the modern detective: Matlock The detective story has a pattern that has been used time and time again by detective story writers since the creation of C. ... How can all detective stories be the same? ... The parallels and similarities between Poe's and Doyle's stories and Matlock are also found in the stories' characters. ... In The Reporter, Matlock is able to draw on his encyclopedic memory to explain the three drunken men seen entering the house and then a short time later three sober men leaving. ... It is nothing more than a ...

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He organized the story so that we know right in the beginning what the story will be about, and what the reader is in for. ... At the start of the story, Poe develops the plot of the story in a difficult manner. ... This story plot is one in which still exists everywhere today. ... Poe's story contains a universal theme that anyone can relate with. ... The dialogue provides extremely short sentences which picks up the rhythm to a furious pace to see what the other character is going to do or say next. ...

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--Do I scale the sheer fazade of a ninety-story building, wearing a clip-on belt? ... However, later in the story, it is the murderer himself that informs the police of his crime. ... In this story, fear of death is more literal, represented by the narrator's fear of the dead man himself. "The Tell-tale Heart- is not the only Poe story that confronts this fear. ... Eliot is clearly warning his audience that time, although it may seem long, is actually very short. ...

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However in the short story "The Cask of Amontillado," Edgar Allan Poe writes in the first person point of view from the perspective of Montresor, the diabolic narrator of this tale, who vowed revenge against Fortunato and has developed the perfect plan for retribution, only lacking the cooperation of Fortunato. ... The character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's story is not content with the community that he lives in. ... The devil playing in "The Cask of Amontillado" is the narrator of this story. ... Dramatic irony is when the reader perceives something that a character in the story does no...

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In 1833 and 1834, Poe wrote two short stories, in which he would later rewrite. He also began work on a volume of short stories entitled Eleven Tales of Arabesque. All eleven stories were published. ... Edgar published his first true horror story, "Bernice," in 1835. ... Edgar worked hard, contributing reviews, essays, revisions, and a few stories. ...

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Although he is probably the most widely read of all American writers, he is commonly believed to have been no more than an alcoholic and a drug addict who wrote weird horror stories. ... His stories, once dismissed as kind of gothic thrillers are now being analyzed for their self-conscious manipulation of narrative devices and their darkly view of reality, and Poe is beginning to be recognized as a master of fictional technique and a precursor of the modernist vision (Bloom 67). Although Poe is best known for his creation of gothic horror stories, one of the largest single groupings of his sho...

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"The Cask of Amontillado" Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe's short stories have long been regarded as groundbreaking stories, including his contributions of both his tales of mystery and his tales of the macabre. ... Another case of irony in this story is the choice of names by Poe. ... Symbolism is another major element Poe employed in this masterful story. ... Another element used in this story is the mystery Poe leaves in this story. ... Yet another mystery present in this story is the true resolution. ...

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As exemplified in this poem, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" (recited by an actor), Dickinson focused on themes relating to death, eternity, and love, usually in short four-line stanzas. ... Edgar Allan Poe- The short stories and poetry of 19th-century American Edgar Allan Poe reflect the writer's haunting imagination. Poe, one of the earliest masters of short story writing, created the first detective stories. ...

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This relates directly to the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe in the subject formation of the main character. ... In the beginning of the story he is confident, but as he tells his story, it becomes clear that he is struggling to hold onto sanity. ... Is it possible that Poe knew about this ancient curse and used it as his base for the story? ... Or was Poe simply writing a story, with no other implied meaning but that of imagination? Poe's stories were seen as horrific tales in his time, and he himself could have been questioned by society as to his state of mind. ...

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The author, through seamlessly melding two worlds into one, brings the personal crises of the main character Richard Young to the fore of the story. ... As he takes successive "trips", though each lasts only a short time, always he is back in the same surroundings. ... Bringing this sharp almost perverted twist to the story, through an almost unknown character. ... The main central idea within the story is the pure attraction of Richard towards a past life 6oo years earlier. ... Echoing the great fantastic stories of H. ...

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Featuring supernatural theatrics, which critics have interpreted a number of ways, the story exhibits Poe's concept of "art for art's sake," the idea that a story should be devoid of social, political, or moral teaching. ... Condemned by some critics for its tendencies toward Romanticism, a literary movement marked by melodramatic and maudlin exaggerations, "The Fall of the House of Usher" was nevertheless typical of Poe's short stories in that it presents a narrator thrust into a psychologically intense situation in which otherworldly forces conspire to drive at least one of th...

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Poe, well known today for his poetry and short stories, such as "The Pit and the Pendulum", is regarded by many to be the founder of the modern detective story. He often wrote horror stories and psychological thrillers, while at the same time exploring the human mind and individual emotions. ...

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