Gothic Literature : Edgar Allan Poe

Gothic literature is when the setting of a novel or passage is described as being gloomy or has a dark setting. In gothic literature the author might often write about a bleak setting, tortured characters or have a strange or violent plot. Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a good example of Gothic Literature because in the story he expresses it as being dark and mysterious, also it incorporates gloomy moods, and a bleak setting in the story. For example, in Poe’s

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe are considered masters of American gothic fiction. They used similar gothic elements in their writing and used it to build up a sense of impending doom. Even today numerous readers enjoy, study, and discuss the gothic elements both utilized in their work. Gothic writing is a style that is concerned with the dark side of society, an evil that lies within the self. Poe and Hawthorne contributed stories which contained dark struggles between characters and society with its rules of order of the time. Gothic writing is fantasy meant to entertain despite the fact that it depicts the political and social problems

Gothic literature was a popular writing tradition of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and is still used today. Gothic literature explores the wicked, perverse and dark desires. Gothic conventions can include burial alive, ghosts, hysteria, ruined bodies, tales within tales, undead characters, underground spaces, and more. Gothic themes are guilt, sex, violence, death, and cosmic struggle. Gothic stories or poems should inspire terror or horror. Edgar Allen Poe was one of the many well-known Gothic writers. In his stories he uses a variety of themes to carry out the gothic theme.

In normal life, people will sometimes suffer from depression or sickness caused by the loss of a loved one in a romantic or family relationship. This has been a part of life for hundreds of years and it is a way that authors like Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner and Horacio Quiroga connect with people all throughout the world. Using exaggerated scenarios, these authors communicate how much of an impact isolation or abandonment can have on a person physically or mentally decaying.

Edgar Allan Poe was a sick man that went through a troubling life full of tragedies. For Poe to deal with this he drank and poured his feelings into his works. Honestly as horrible it is that he had to go through all of that we should be grateful because without his suffering these masterpieces wouldn’t have been fabricated. While intensifying his philosophy for short stories Edgar Allan Poe wrote “The Fall of the House of Usher” reflecting the characteristics of Dark Romantic Movement.

Whether it's in closed off castles, deep dark dungeons, or in the fiery pits of hell, Edgar Allen Poe’s dark and mysterious writing style illustrates and represents the Gothic genre. Throughout Poe’s life he experienced many tragedies, from more common issues like financial instability, to deeper more tragic issues like his mother, adoptive mother, and wife all dying from tuberculosis. Because of these, and many other tragedies Edgar Allen Poe suffered through, he began writing using a deep, dark, gothic writing style. The definition of Gothic writing/literature is that that includes elements of fear, terror, horror, and death, all of which are present in many of Poe’s writings. The gothic writing style used by Poe is shown in many of his

“The relationship of Poe’s work to the Gothic tradition... For Poe, both the stylistics and the thematics of Gothic fiction became a major aesthetic imperative, partly because he found in the Gothic a means of giving objective expression to the subjective demons at large in his short, sad life…” (Thomson, Voller, and Frank, 331) In essence Poe’s stories are almost as if they were journal entries of his own, since his characters and himself are often going through similar problems at similar times. He found comfort in this genre simply due to the fact that this is what he could relate to most.

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer in the “Gothic Era”, many of his stories genres are horror like “ The Masque of The Red Death”, mystery such as “ The Fall of The House of Usher”, lost love as in “ The Raven”, and obsession such as “ The Pit and The Pendulum”. Edgar’s poems and short stories are influenced by tragedies that happened through out his lifetime. Poe influenced not only American literature but literature around the world. He also influenced writers around the world such as Sir Conan Doyle, Fyodor

The mid 1800s’ was a time where dark romantics flourished in North Americas when many American authors like Edgar Allan Poe wrote dark short stories like “The Cask of Amontillado” about the world around him. Dark romantics focused heavily on nature like all romantics did, but it had more of a darker approach to nature. Dark romantics helped develop gothic style writing, the gothic style was like the darker romantics, but it also delved more into the supernatural and in to the mind of the characters. Poe was known as one of the best at gothic fiction. He took parts of his life and put them into his stories giving them emotions. Edgar Allan Poe’s works had gothic style by his use of the theme of death, the supernatural and the use of a

The Gothic literature’s development is very colorful and the influence is great, because the Gothic has devoted itself to many popular genres and influenced many important writers such as Edgar Allan Poe. Poe, as one of the most important writers in American Southern literature, makes very important contribution to the development of the Gothic literature. Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most unique writers in America. He stands alone with his aesthetic taste and writing principle, engaged in the morbid theme of nightmare, death, crime and evil. Consequently, he adopts Gothic technique in a composition, taking a full advantage of Gothic subject matter, plot and elements and lingering on violence, murder, insanity and collapse.

Edgar Allen Poe is one of the best known American gothic writers . He has written many stories but his style is shown when he uses the gothic elements in his stories. He has many recurring ways at which he uses the gothic elements. In most of Edgar Allen Poe’s novella he frequently uses the selfishness and blood ,showing some of his style.

Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his gothic style of writing. The Gothic Era began with the late eighteenth century writers in the context of the Romantic period. It was considered a kind of medievalism. “When it was launched

By gothic I mean that the author emphasizes the mysterious, the horrible and the ghostly. In my paper I will be discussing how these two stories reflect character of Edger Allen Poe with disturbed psyches. Poe had inserting mental or physical diseases and ailments to many of his stories. He was abandoned by

Edgar Allan Poe, is one of the most brilliant literary writers in history. He wrote many poems and short stories throughout his rather short lifetime, most of which encompassed such themes as death, destruction, and madness. These intriguing, and often frightening tales, as well as his clever use of a multitude of literary tactics, is what set him apart from the rest, and what makes him so popular still today. Reading his work, one is sure to wonder where these ideas came from. However, a little research into past will certainly open the doors to a better understanding of his writing.

In the works Annabel Lee, Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Cask of Amontillado written by Edgar Allan Poe, the stories show his gothic writing style that focuses on the ideas of death, revenge, or mystery. When Poe was extremely young, both of his parents passed away. Even so, another family adopted him and gave him the best education possible. He attended the University of Virginia, which challenged Poe to the extent that he grew a gambling problem. Edgar Allan Poe was forced to leave the college after he was not able to pay the debt and decided to join the Army, which could have influenced his death-obsessed style of writing. Later, his wife died, which increased his depression as well as his addiction to alcohol. Edgar Allan Poe’s morbid