Gothic Elements In The Masque Of The Red Death

In the allegorical story, “The Masque of the Read Death”, Poe, tries to express the human desire to avoid Death. The place and the time of the story portray social ignorance, since in the past death was a taboo that provoked terror in humanity. The consternation causes motivation in issues such as death dissolution or prevention. Poe finds himself motivated by death; in this work, his character Prince Prospero has strange tastes that represent death symbolically and makes a great effort to avoid it.

The fictional short story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe takes place in the catacombs of Montresor’s palace, during the carnival’s climax. The story begins when Montresor, the villain of the story, vows revenge on Fortunato. Throughout the story, the author doesn't tell us what the revenge will be, but his choice of words in the details creates a mood in the reader. The author’s detailed description in the short story creates different moods in the reader like anger, satisfaction, curiosity, and victory because the chosen words connect with the audience.

Poe’s stories “Cask of Amontillado” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” display the dark romantic theme of a man’s soul by the development of the setting, plot, and characterization. As both stories begin, the initial device used to advance the theme is setting, which remains grim and sinister throughout the duration of both stories. Accompanying these physical details is the plot, each of which includes the murder of an innocent man. Most notably, the characterization of each piece’s narrator allows the audience to fully understand their internal struggle and its final resolution. While “Cask of Amontillado” contains an overall intriguing and unexpected plot as well as setting, the narrator’s characterization proves this story to conclude in a less

Edgar Allen Poe is considered as a dark, gloomy,and mysterious sorcerer. He knows deeply about human nature. His stories show profound human nature and one of them is pride. A pride is a feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction of achievement. Edgar Allen Poe seems to be interested in and enchanted by characters whose overweening pride leads to their downfall.

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity”--Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, leaving behind a legacy of horribly satisfying tales of hatred and malice. Poe used his personal insanity as inspiration for the “madman” in his story, “The Tell-Tale Heart”. This story is built off of climax, and is extremely suspenseful, leaving you unsure of when the “madman” will strike. Poe also exhibits excellent syntax that helps the reader understand the unnatural actions of the “madman”. Poe’s writing is incredibly detailed, which helps build character and inner conflict. Poe’s success as a master

Essentially Poe utilizes allusions throughout the story to barry a deeper meaning into the text of the story. A sample of an allusion is this quote, “And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night,” (Poe 394). Poe personifies the Red Death as a “thief” to give the reader a relative understanding of the way the Red Death came upon Prince Prospero’s guests. The phrase “like a thief in the night” also can be seen as a biblical allusion in Thessalonians 5:4 Paul wrote about Jesus coming “like a thief in the night.” Paul tells that Jesus will come when no one is aware of his coming. Much like the Red Death came upon the guests in the abbey. The Prince and his guests were ignorant towards death almost as it does not exist, just as many do with christians belief of Jesus’ second coming. To christians Jesus will come whether

Edgar Allan Poe is a writer who struggled through a lot, for example his mother, wife, and brother died all of the same disease. Poe is a writer who is inspired by all the pain and depression he has gone through in his life. In most of Poe 's stories, the narrator wanted revenge, but usually gets caught and later executed. In Poe’s stories the main theme is that anger leads to bad decisions.

    In “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Masque of Red Death”, the main characters try to isolate themselves from evil, but Poe uses irony to show that death is inevitable.

Fear can inhibit you from acting foolishly in the forthcoming. Additionally, horror alerts us of what may soon happen and restrains us from future affliction. By being set in the minds of others during these hair-raising situations, we learn to not go down the wrong path. By doing so, you avoid future misfortune. Nonetheless, fear alters our brain and crams it with horrific ideology. Dread can lead to insanity and causes you to become obsessed. Consternation can lead you to become so overly-obsessed that preposterous ideas begin raiding your head. Symbolism, irony, and figurative language are used in “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, and “The Masque of the Red Death” to delineate how dread deceives the protagonist's’ mind and how obsession overcomes their mind.

In many stories and poems; such as the Tell Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Raven, Annabel Lee, The House of Usher, and so many more timeless works, Edgar Allan Poe has been captivating his audiences with spine tingling thrillers through the words and style of his own twisted ways. The only way to describe where Poe’s writing belongs in history, would be classified as gothic genre. From the start of the 1800’s to present day and the future of literature, through irony, repetition, imagery, and symbolism Poe has been bewitching readers with his gore and insane writings.

“He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall” (Poe). Edgar Allan Poe was an American author and poet during the 1800’s (anb). He is known for his gothic style of writing, and tragic tales. Poe has written famous pieces such as The Raven (1845), The Black Cat (1843), and The Tell Tale Heart(1843). But one of Poe’s stories, The Masque of the Red Death (1842), relies heavily on themes of death, pestilence, human nature, and religion. Through these themes and symbolism, Poe explores the darker side of humanity and the meaning behind life.

One of the most influential authors of all time, Edgar Allan Poe, uses dark imagery and complex syntax to make his short stories and poems harrowing and mysterious. Poe’s tragic backstory contributes to his writing style. Poe’s depressing life, such as the death of his mother, foster mother, and wife to tuberculosis caused him to write stories such as The Masque of the Red Death a story about a disease similar to tuberculosis called the Red Death spread across the country. Another theme throughout some of Poe’s stories is young women dying such as in Annabel Lee and The Fall of the House of Usher. A reason for this is because most every women he loved, his mom, foster mom, and wife, died young. Poe uses dark imagery and complex syntax to write gothic short stories and poems such as Annabel Lee and Fall of the House of Usher.

In this story, there is the wealthy and poor type of people. One thing they do have in common though is death because everyone will eventually die. This short story, “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe, explains how Prince Prospero was trying to avoid a disease that is killing victims very quickly in a very disturbing way. Prince Prospero was one of those people, who wanted to live for eternity. The author’s intended theme was, “Death is unavoidable, no matter how hard you try to hide from it”.This story is composed of a variety of rhetorical strategies that helps the audience understand the message the author is trying to pass on. Throughout the story, Edgar Allan Poe used a specific type of tone, he used symbolism, and personification to prove his dark point.

“The Masque of the Red Death” displays the gothic element of a character 's motivation caused by fear. Prince Prospero insured his and his guests’ safety with “The courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts” (Poe 430). In order to protect himself and the guests from the contagion he had the doors of the abbey sealed shut. The fear of getting the contagion caused Prince Prospero to seal himself in the abbey. Prince Prospero’s fear is not only shown towards the contagion, but towards the masked figure. After he saw the masked figure, Prince Prospero shouted, “Who dares insult us with the blasphemous mockery? Seize him and unmask him - that we may know whom we have to hang at sunrise” (Poe 433). Prince Prospero

Discoveries can be either sought or unforeseen and can lead to good or bad consequences, but ultimately they are all concerned with the acquisition of greater knowledge and a new perspective.In William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Prospero comes to realise not only the limitations of his art, but also the importance of love and redemption in redefining one’s place in the world, as well as one’s view of it. ,Margaret Atwood 's Journeys to the Interior and The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe all explore the challenges of discoveries and their impact on individuals.