Topic: Edgar Allan Poe Short story
Name: Nasim Gaha
Roll no:22
Email id: gahanasim786@gmail.com
Enrollment no: 2069108420190014
Sem-3
Submitted to Department of English MKUBU.
About: Edgar Alone Poe
He was born in 19 January 1809 and died 7 October 1849. He was American short-story writer, poet, critic and editor. He was famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre.
Famous work
“The Cask of Amontillado”
“The Masque of the Red Death”
“The Tell-Tale Heart”
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
The Fall of the House of Usher”
" The Purloined Letter”
"The Gold Bug"
“The Black cat”
“The Fall of House” use In them
The Fall of the House of Usher, supernatural horror story by Edgar Poe published in Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine in 1839 and issued in Poe’s Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840).
Fear, Imagination, and Madness
Fear is a pervasive theme throughout “The Fall of the House of Usher,” playing a prominent role in the lives of the characters. The story shows that fear and imagination feed off one another. The narrator is afraid of the old mansion, even though there is no specific threat. He recognizes that the individual aspects of the mansion are normal, but when put together, they convey an ominous presence. He is more terrified by the house’s reflection in the tarn, a distorted and ultimately imaginary image, than by the actual house.
The narrator sees Roderick losing his sanity and grip on reality, and while there is no obvious cause, the narrator admits he feels the same terror and madness setting on him. Roderick lives in a constant state of fear, which soon infects the narrator, making him superstitious as well. Roderick’s imagination makes him believe that the house is sentient, and this belief makes him fearful of his surroundings. Roderick states that he will eventually “abandon life and reason together,” and in doing so he will completely lose touch with reality and give in to his delusions.
“The Purloined Letter” use in theme
Logic
The hallmark of "The Purloined Letter" is its use of abstract logic by C. August Dupin. The story is one of what Poe called his "tales of ratiocination," which employed reason—rather than horror, as in many other Poe stories—as a narrative tool. Dupin, who also solves the cases in some of Poe's other tales of ratiocination, is a detective who uses deductive reasoning to solve the case of the stolen letter.
In the story, Dupin relies on what he knows of the situation to deduce the correct hiding spot of the letter. Pupin’s reasoning is based on three factors: what he knows of the Prefect's behavior and thought processes; what he knows of the Minister's behavior and thought processes; and what he knows of human nature in general.
As Dupin explains to the narrator, he knows, both from recent conversations with the Prefect and from past knowledge, that the Prefect follows "principles of search, which are based upon the one set of notions regarding human ingenuity" to which the Prefect was accustomed. Dupin notes that the Prefect has "taken it for granted that all men proceed to conceal a letter.... in some out-of-the-way hole." In the Prefect's experience, when somebody wants to hide...
“The gold BUG” USE IN MYTH
A mystery story need not necessarily involve an intellectual theme in the ordinary sense of the term. The gradual unraveling of the mystery and the suspense created are usually sufficient to hold the reader’s interest. The reader receives pleasure from matching his wits with the character attempting to solve the mystery and the character who created the mystery. In Edgar Allan Poe’s detective and mystery stories such as “The Purloined Letter” and “The Gold-Bug,” the main characters themselves, such as Dupin and Legrand, receive this kind of pleasure, as well as expectations of monetary reward. At the same time, in their explanations of their procedures, they often make comments on human nature that serve as themes.
One such theme is expressed by Legrand as he tells the narrator how he decoded Kidd’s cipher. Legrand has the skills in logic and the past experiences with such codes to succeed at the task. Yet more fundamentally, he bases his attempt on the conviction, he says, that any mystery that one human intelligence can construct, another human can solve if the person applies his or her intellect properly and persistently. Thus armed, Legrand cracks the code with little difficulty, to the amazement of the narrator.
“The Tell-Tell-Tell Heart” use theme
Two major themes in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” are guilt and madness. The narrator is seemingly unable to cope with his guilt and eventually confesses everything to the police, ruining his “perfect crime.” The narrator’s sanity is also in question. His justifications for killing the old man and his actions throughout the story suggest that the narrator has, in fact, descended into madness.
“The cask of Amontillado” use in myth
e Cask of Amontillado" is a powerful tale of revenge. Montresor, the sinister narrator of this tale, pledges revenge upon Fortuna to for an insult. Montresor intends to seek vengeance in support of his family motto: "Nemo me impune lacessit. No one assails me with impunity.
“The black cat” use myth
"The Black Cat," one of Edgar Alone Poe 's most memorable stories, is a classic example of the gothic literature genre that debuted in the Saturday Evening Post on August 19, 1843. Written in the form of a first-person narrative, Poe employed multiple themes of insanity, superstition, and alcoholism to impart a palpable sense of horror and foreboding to this tale, while at the same time, deftly advancing his plot and building his characters. It's no surprise that "The Black Cat" is often linked with "The Tell-Tale Heart," since both of Poe's stories share several disturbing plot devices including murder and damning messages from the grave—real or imagined.
Love and hate are two key themes in the story. The narrator at first loves his pets and his wife, but as madness takes hold of him, he comes to loathe or dismiss everything that should be of the utmost importance to him. Other major themes include:
Justice and truth: The narrator tries to hide the truth by walling up his wife's body but the voice of the black cat helps bring him to justice.
Superstition: The black cat is an omen of bad luck, a theme that runs throughout literature.
Murder and death: Death is the central focus of the entire story. The question is what causes the narrator to become a killer.
Illusion versus reality: Does the alcohol release the narrator's inner demons, or is it merely an excuse for his horrendous acts of violence? Is the black cat merely a cat or something imbued with a greater power to bring about justice or exact revenge?
Loyalty perverted: A pet is often seen as a loyal and faithful partner in life but the escalating hallucinations the narrator experiences propel him into murderous rages, first with Pluto and then with the cat the replaces him. The pets he once held in highest affection become the thing he most loathes. As the man's sanity unravels, his wife, whom he also purports to love, becomes someone who merely inhabits his home rather than shares his life. She ceases to be a real person, and when she does, she is expendable. When she dies, rather than feel the horror of killing someone he cares for, the man's first response is to hide the evidence of his crime.
Conclusion
ho was Edgar Allan Poe? When I look back at my literary studies, I have a recurring memory of the fascination I and my fellow students felt when we started reading Poe’s short stories and narrative poems. Not only did we feel intrigued by the horror in his stories, but we also enjoyed the deductive reasoning and creative imagianation of Dupin, the famous detective who first appeared in his The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Poe’s writing is often associated with his tales of mystery and macabre, and he is also seen as an important figure in the birth of detective fiction.
Name: Nasim Gaha
Roll no:22
Email id: gahanasim786@gmail.com
Enrollment no: 2069108420190014
Sem-3
Submitted to Department of English MKUBU.
About: Edgar Alone Poe
He was born in 19 January 1809 and died 7 October 1849. He was American short-story writer, poet, critic and editor. He was famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre.
Famous work
“The Cask of Amontillado”
“The Masque of the Red Death”
“The Tell-Tale Heart”
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
The Fall of the House of Usher”
" The Purloined Letter”
"The Gold Bug"
“The Black cat”
“The Fall of House” use In them
The Fall of the House of Usher, supernatural horror story by Edgar Poe published in Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine in 1839 and issued in Poe’s Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840).
Fear, Imagination, and Madness
Fear is a pervasive theme throughout “The Fall of the House of Usher,” playing a prominent role in the lives of the characters. The story shows that fear and imagination feed off one another. The narrator is afraid of the old mansion, even though there is no specific threat. He recognizes that the individual aspects of the mansion are normal, but when put together, they convey an ominous presence. He is more terrified by the house’s reflection in the tarn, a distorted and ultimately imaginary image, than by the actual house.
The narrator sees Roderick losing his sanity and grip on reality, and while there is no obvious cause, the narrator admits he feels the same terror and madness setting on him. Roderick lives in a constant state of fear, which soon infects the narrator, making him superstitious as well. Roderick’s imagination makes him believe that the house is sentient, and this belief makes him fearful of his surroundings. Roderick states that he will eventually “abandon life and reason together,” and in doing so he will completely lose touch with reality and give in to his delusions.
“The Purloined Letter” use in theme
Logic
The hallmark of "The Purloined Letter" is its use of abstract logic by C. August Dupin. The story is one of what Poe called his "tales of ratiocination," which employed reason—rather than horror, as in many other Poe stories—as a narrative tool. Dupin, who also solves the cases in some of Poe's other tales of ratiocination, is a detective who uses deductive reasoning to solve the case of the stolen letter.
In the story, Dupin relies on what he knows of the situation to deduce the correct hiding spot of the letter. Pupin’s reasoning is based on three factors: what he knows of the Prefect's behavior and thought processes; what he knows of the Minister's behavior and thought processes; and what he knows of human nature in general.
As Dupin explains to the narrator, he knows, both from recent conversations with the Prefect and from past knowledge, that the Prefect follows "principles of search, which are based upon the one set of notions regarding human ingenuity" to which the Prefect was accustomed. Dupin notes that the Prefect has "taken it for granted that all men proceed to conceal a letter.... in some out-of-the-way hole." In the Prefect's experience, when somebody wants to hide...
“The gold BUG” USE IN MYTH
A mystery story need not necessarily involve an intellectual theme in the ordinary sense of the term. The gradual unraveling of the mystery and the suspense created are usually sufficient to hold the reader’s interest. The reader receives pleasure from matching his wits with the character attempting to solve the mystery and the character who created the mystery. In Edgar Allan Poe’s detective and mystery stories such as “The Purloined Letter” and “The Gold-Bug,” the main characters themselves, such as Dupin and Legrand, receive this kind of pleasure, as well as expectations of monetary reward. At the same time, in their explanations of their procedures, they often make comments on human nature that serve as themes.
One such theme is expressed by Legrand as he tells the narrator how he decoded Kidd’s cipher. Legrand has the skills in logic and the past experiences with such codes to succeed at the task. Yet more fundamentally, he bases his attempt on the conviction, he says, that any mystery that one human intelligence can construct, another human can solve if the person applies his or her intellect properly and persistently. Thus armed, Legrand cracks the code with little difficulty, to the amazement of the narrator.
“The Tell-Tell-Tell Heart” use theme
Two major themes in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” are guilt and madness. The narrator is seemingly unable to cope with his guilt and eventually confesses everything to the police, ruining his “perfect crime.” The narrator’s sanity is also in question. His justifications for killing the old man and his actions throughout the story suggest that the narrator has, in fact, descended into madness.
“The cask of Amontillado” use in myth
e Cask of Amontillado" is a powerful tale of revenge. Montresor, the sinister narrator of this tale, pledges revenge upon Fortuna to for an insult. Montresor intends to seek vengeance in support of his family motto: "Nemo me impune lacessit. No one assails me with impunity.
“The black cat” use myth
"The Black Cat," one of Edgar Alone Poe 's most memorable stories, is a classic example of the gothic literature genre that debuted in the Saturday Evening Post on August 19, 1843. Written in the form of a first-person narrative, Poe employed multiple themes of insanity, superstition, and alcoholism to impart a palpable sense of horror and foreboding to this tale, while at the same time, deftly advancing his plot and building his characters. It's no surprise that "The Black Cat" is often linked with "The Tell-Tale Heart," since both of Poe's stories share several disturbing plot devices including murder and damning messages from the grave—real or imagined.
Love and hate are two key themes in the story. The narrator at first loves his pets and his wife, but as madness takes hold of him, he comes to loathe or dismiss everything that should be of the utmost importance to him. Other major themes include:
Justice and truth: The narrator tries to hide the truth by walling up his wife's body but the voice of the black cat helps bring him to justice.
Superstition: The black cat is an omen of bad luck, a theme that runs throughout literature.
Murder and death: Death is the central focus of the entire story. The question is what causes the narrator to become a killer.
Illusion versus reality: Does the alcohol release the narrator's inner demons, or is it merely an excuse for his horrendous acts of violence? Is the black cat merely a cat or something imbued with a greater power to bring about justice or exact revenge?
Loyalty perverted: A pet is often seen as a loyal and faithful partner in life but the escalating hallucinations the narrator experiences propel him into murderous rages, first with Pluto and then with the cat the replaces him. The pets he once held in highest affection become the thing he most loathes. As the man's sanity unravels, his wife, whom he also purports to love, becomes someone who merely inhabits his home rather than shares his life. She ceases to be a real person, and when she does, she is expendable. When she dies, rather than feel the horror of killing someone he cares for, the man's first response is to hide the evidence of his crime.
Conclusion
ho was Edgar Allan Poe? When I look back at my literary studies, I have a recurring memory of the fascination I and my fellow students felt when we started reading Poe’s short stories and narrative poems. Not only did we feel intrigued by the horror in his stories, but we also enjoyed the deductive reasoning and creative imagianation of Dupin, the famous detective who first appeared in his The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Poe’s writing is often associated with his tales of mystery and macabre, and he is also seen as an important figure in the birth of detective fiction.
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