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Edgar Allan Poe was born in the year 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Before Poe was three years old, his parents died. John Allan raised Poe, but never legally adopted him. Edgar was admitted to the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1825. After less than a year there, Poe was forced to leave due to inadequate funds from John and financial debts. ... In 1834, John Allan died and left little for Poe to claim. Although he received nothing, due to John’s greedy wife keeping everything from Poe. ... Poe then became involved in many romantic affairs. ... On October 3, Poe was found semi-conscious and died on October 7, 1849, due to reasons unknown. ... According to a dictionary, gothic means barbaric and uncivilized, which greatly depict the method Edgar Allan Poe used to write his stories. Throughout Poe’s darker stories, he uses a common Gothic technique.
To begin, a short story by Poe called, “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a depressing tale. ... While the narrator is reading, Poe uses a method called doubling. ... Poe’s words “constitute what is probably the most intractable material in which any artist can choose to work; and Poe’s power it to be traced to his masterly manipulation of words” (Ward 310). The Gothic technique is very clear through this dreadful Poe story.
Another gruesome short story, “The Masque of the Red Death” shows Poe’s creativity for death and disfiguration. ... Considering all the death and worsening within the story, this is a perfect example of the Gothic style from Poe. ... Also on the note of revenge,
“Stuart and Susan Levine, editors of ‘The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition’ do not view Poe’s story as just a clever tale of revenge, but instead, see it as an anti-aristocratic commentary. ‘Resentment against aristocratic privilege of all kinds reached a peak in Jacksonian and post-Jacksonian America… Poe’s tale is related to innumerable articles in American
magazines of the period about the scandalous goings-on of continental nobility’” (Womack online). ... Through every detail of this intricate story, Poe’s gothic feel can be seen.
The final story used as an example of Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic theme is, “The Black Cat. ...
As once said before, “not only probabilities and possibilities strongly aroused Poe’s ardent curiosity but also maladies of the mind.
Approximate Word count = 1909
Approximate Pages = 7.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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