Essays on Edgar Allan Poe

The nineteenth century American short story often contains elements of the supernatural. In the short stories such as “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” by Washington Irving, and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” have a...

Immersive theatre is a genre for itself. Forget sitting in seat and merely losing yourself in the world it presents by engaging the imagination. Then again it does neither imply that interaction and participation is an integral component or that the site needs to be...

When considering the justifications for revenge, many factors contribute to sympathizing with the victim; moreover, an experience told through the eyes of the perpetrator is one vulnerable to bias and may not always be trustworthy. Edgar Allan Poe writes Fortunato and Montresor from “The Cask...

The Cast of Amontillado is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe, its based on vengeance, to a man named Fortunato. However, as I read throw the story it was never mentioned why was Montresor so provoked by Fortunado. With that being said I...

The difference between living a moral life compared to one full of sin and hatred is brought into light when comparing Edgar Allen Poe and Flannery O’Connor. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the grandmother seems to feel like she needs material possessions...

The story of Prince Prospero and the people within his kingdom allowed me to see how the idea of disestablishment constantly fueled the fear of death rapidly approaching them. Since a plague wiped out many of their people around the country already, each begins to...

Years ago, there were two men who seemed to have a good relationship as friends. The first man was I Montresor and the other was Fortunato. One evening, there was a carnival event in town. It was the biggest event of all times. Montresor was...