Compare And Contrast Poe And The Fall Of The House Of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe’s stories and poems have death scenes, isolated settings, sorrowful events, and vivid imagery. All of his writings are very recognizable. When Poe was growing up he had many relatives and loved ones pass away from the disease tuberculosis. When Poe was two years old his mother passed away from the disease. After his mother passed his then dearly beloved wife , whom was also his cousin, passed away from the same disease. In Poe's writing somethings are are a little demented, this is most likely from his dark past.

In Poe’s stories the settings are similar because they are all isolated. In his stories the characters are isolated, so if and when something tragic happens the characters are helpless. This relates to Poe’s life because

In each of his writings they all have a spooky aspect to them. In the story “The Fall of the House of Usher” Poe stated “For a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold, then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of he brother, and in he violent and now final death- agonies bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors her had anticipated.”this piece of text is right after the usher sister had been buried alive, this goes to prove that the story had the story had a mood of darkness. Then in the writing “The Masque of the Red Death”, Poe wrote “Her bore aloft a drawn dagger, and had approached, in rapid impetuosity, to within three or four feet of the retreating figure, when the latter, having attained the extremity of the velvet apartment, turned suddenly and confronted his pursuer. There was a sharp cry.” This is the death scene of Prince Prospero. In both writings there is a dark mood. In the writing “The Cask of Amontillado” there is a dark mood because of the death scene, “No answer still. I thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let in return only a jingling of bells my heart grew