Compare And Contrast Poe And Masque Of The Red Death

Edgar Allen Poe has many different famous stories and poems. All his works have similar traits to them such as the setting, mood, and characters. The death of many of his beloved ones is what caused them to be similar because the writings are all about death and despair. Most of these events happened during his childhood when the people he loved died of tuberculosis. He also had issues with his parents because they never truly helped him to become successful.
The writings of Poe share a similar setting. This is shown as being secluded and sheltered from the outside world. In “Masque of the Red Death” the Prince Prospero brings 1000 of his friends to a castle alone to try and escape the red death, “He summoned to his presence a thousand hale

All of his stories have a trend of darkness and fearfulness. In “Masque of the Red Death” the Prince and his 1000 friends were hiding from the red death. The people were terrified to get this disease, “There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution”. In the poem “Alone” the mood is shown in the lines “My sorrow -- I could not awaken” and “My heart to joy at the same tone – “. He was never accepted, making him fear that he will forever be alone. In “The Fall of the House of Usher” the mood shares similar qualities with its setting, “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day…”. In “Cask of Amontillado” the mood is expressed when they enter the catacombs “a low moaning cry from the depth of the recess”. The mood throughout all his stories are very similar and can be compared to the depressing events in Poe’s

For example, in “Masque of the Red Death” the people are scared of the Red Death so they decide to hide in an isolated castle, “and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys”. In “Cask of the Amontillado” fear is shown when Fortunato is being buried alive and asks Montresor to release him “But is it not getting late? Will not they be awaiting us at the palazzo, the lady Fortunato and the rest? Let us be gone”. In “Fall of the House of Usher” Roderick Usher describes to his friend his fears through the line, “To an anomalous species of terror I found him a bounden slave. “I shall perish,” said he, “I must perish in this deplorable folly”. In the poem “Alone” the narrator says “(When the rest of Heaven was blue), of a demon in my view”, this may represent how other people have a more peaceful, clear view of everything. But he has a fearful and chaotic view of things that blocks him from the clarity of the rest of the world. Fear helps better identify a specific trait that is similar within all of Poe’s