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How Does Poe Manipulate Fortunato's Death

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“In an instant i dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him.” One of the quotes from “The tell-tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe. Poe uses tone and imagery to illustrate death. He uses these style devices in short stories like “the cask of amontillado”, “the raven”, “Annabel lee”, and “the mask of the red death.” I will summarize his work and how he shows death. Most of Edgar’s short stories are very dark and creepy. For example in the story “cask of amontillado” Montresor manipulates Fortunato in such a way that he actually got away with his plan. Poe writes about a jealous man getting back at his target and covering the victim with bricks. This author uses so many details to describe Fortunato’s death, everything from this short story is perfected, you can almost picture in your mind what's happening. …show more content…

This is due to his amazing imagery skills. When Poe wrote “Lenore” over and over in his poem “the raven” he was expressing how his loved one Lenore died and he's hallucinating about her. Also from the poem “the tell-tale heart” he describes how the murderer planned to kill an innocent old man and how he “took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings.” He thinks of so many crazy things about death. When people read the tell tale heart they see what Poe says. They can see how the victim gets brutally killed and how the murderer pulls the bed over the old man and how he cuts him up in pieces and stores him under his floor where no person on earth can suspect

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