Edgar Allan Poe
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As a young lonely orphaned boy, Edgar Allan Poe was abused and was unloved. Edgar Allan Poe created his characters as a refection of his own pain and his own feelings of loss, loneliness, hopelessness and separation. Most of these could be proven in most of his stories and poems. It could be seen in his short stories ‘The black cat’, “Ligeria”, and “The Tell-tale heart”.
According to Edgar Allan Poe’s life, he lost both parents at an early age and he was taking in by Mrs. Allan. Poe attended a school in London, which was a large mansion with addition in various architectural styles. This added and contributed to Poe’s late darkly romantic houses in his stories. His student life at the university of Virginia affected his whole life. During his stay there he spent most of his time drinking. Poe’s love life with his cousin Virginia who was only thirteen years old when he got married to her also contributed to quite a number of his romantic stories.
Poe’s behavior at large companies conferences was a polling due to his addiction to drinking. Some people assumed that he was a drug addict but according to medical testimony he had a brain lesion which is a wound or injury in which could lead to insanity. All this did not stop Poe from producing his stories and poems. He was one of a kind and he stressed upon the correct use of Language, meter and structure. He had rules for his short stories in which he sought for the ancient unites. To this he added that of mood or effect.
Edgar Allan Poe organization of his stories made people so persuade that they thought all his stories really happened. Because of this people pictured him as the narrator in his stories and began to look at him as the crazy characters in his stories excepesially his supernatural stories which really made people suspicious about him.
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Poe has been considered as a gothic writer due to his supernatural stories he tells. He confessed to dreaming dreams no human ever dares to dream before. Most his stories have stories have really persuaded people that till this day people still think that all his stories are true and are really taking.
a part of his life that he can’t express. He was said to have been molested by his father but have not been proving from any of his stories or from any of his diaries. But as far as Poe is conscience he was not molested by any of his fathers or anybody at all.
Poe also shared in the racism and proslavery of his time and place. Poe expressed contempt for abolitionists. He really did not do much about slavery but he contributed with short sentences all together would not be more than a longish paragraph. But with his little contribution Poe made helped him feel like he made a difference at list in some ones life.
As the narrator begins to tell his story in “The black cat”, the reader would discover that the man's personality had undergone a drastic transformation which he attributes to his abuse of alcohol and the perverse side of his nature, which the alcohol seemed to evoke. The reader also discovers that the narrator is superstitious, as he recounts that his wife made "frequent allusion to the ancient popular notion, that all black cats are witches in disguise." Even though the narrator denies this much as the narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" denies that he or she is insane, the reader becomes increasingly aware of his superstitious belief as the story progresses.
Superstition as well as the popular notion to which the man's wife refer) has it that Satan and witches assume the form of black cats. For those who believe, they are symbols of bad luck, death, sorcery, witchcraft, and the spirits of the dead. Appropriately, the narrator calls his cat, Pluto, who in Greek and Roman mythology was the god of the dead and the ruler of the underworld symbolism.
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As in other Poe stories "The Tell-Tale Heart," biting and mutilation appear. The narrator of "The Black Cat" first becomes annoyed when Pluto(the black cat0 "inflicted a slight wound upon the hand with his teeth." After he is bitten by the cat, the narrator cuts out its eye. Poe relates "eyes" and "teeth" in their single amount to take in or to incorporate objects. This dread of being consumed often leads the narrator to destroy who or what he fears.
In “The tell-tale heart Edgar Allan Poe used a combination of love and hatred to creat his story. He used fear in the sence that he was afraid that the eye would come after him which also could be related to his stepfather coming after him.In this story Poe also experiences a sign of insanity when he stated that he could hear the heart of the dead old man beating. This could lead us to his real life because he had a trace of insanity from his brain lesion.
As in Poe stories "The Tell-Tale Heart”, biting and mutilation appear. The narrator of "The Black Cat" first becomes annoyed when Pluto "inflicted a slight wound upon the hand with his teeth." After he is bitten by the cat, the narrator cuts out its eye. Poe relates "eyes" and "teeth" in their single capacity to take in or to incorporate objects. This dread of being consumed often leads the narrator to destroy who or what he fears.
Poe's pronounced use of foreshadowing leads the reader from one event to the next ("one night," "one morning," "on the night of the day," etc.). Within the first few paragraphs of the story, the narrator foreshadows that he will violently harm his wife ("At length, I even offered her personal violence."). However, are the events of the story, as the narrator suggests, based upon "...an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effect," or are they indeed caused by the supernatural? By using, three main events in this story (the apparition of the first cat upon the burned wall, the appearance of the gallows like pattern upon the chest of the second cat, and the discovery of the second cat behind the cellar wall), a convincing case can be presented for both sides.It stated in the journal that from a review they had merely indicated Poe’s characteristics of his stories which stricke them as eminently original.In other words from true life experience Edgar Allan Poe writes most of his tales. Which could also lead u to his real life experience and how he grow. One of his stories. The black cat is an illustrative theory. The author Edgar Allan Poe has advanced this story in other writings. Poe claims honor of being one of the primitive impulses of human heart. The story has power and interest. It explains the life of a criminal who’s motive and action is to kill. In the review some characteristics stricke’s as eminently original.
Edgar Allan Poe has been declared a genius in an old article. Edgar writes some of his stories out of love and passion. He wrote this by using all his poetic skills. He also used a kind of supernatural method to write this short story. He creates stories with fear as the theme and he elaborates on it. According to research Poe is a better poet in his prose than in his poetry. Edgar generally expends his spirit into his work.The issue of Edgar Allan Poe’s madness has been going on for years. Most people say his story relates to his real life madness. Other people say that he had a trait of mentality but they are all wrong . (5)
According to Poe's life he had nobody that he could relly call a friend.Poe was a lonely man and he also expressed his loniness in one of his book named the black cat. In this book Poe expressed jealousy to the story. He wrote that the man in the story who owned the cat ws jealous of his own wife. Secondly he believed in supernatural believe of cats having more than one life. He once mentioned abot himm mhaving scary dreamms. Which proves his weirdness. He quoted"Ihave had dreams that no mortal would ever dare dream".
In another hand he was also unloved by his adopted father.His father Mr. Allan really did not want his wife to adopt a child but she still went ahead to adopt him. Poe at a very young age lost his parents and he was then separated from his only sister. He was taking to his new parents home years later Mrs Allan died. He then had to leave the house he went to his Aunties house.
Frankly speaking Edgar allan Poe was loved that is the main reason why he wrote some of his stories like that. this feeling f loneliness and unloved behavior could all have come from his heavy drinking and his brain lesion.
brain lesion affects most of his book with murders like the tell tale heart, black cat and so on.Before he had the brain lesion he wrotte beautiful poes and even won a lot of awards. After it come to him and the rate of his drinking got heavier he could no longer contol himself most of the times he would take a glass of alcohol but when it got heavier it affected him and his stories.
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Edgar had his first serious romantic attachment since Elmira Royster with a seventeen-year-old girl named Mary Starr. It's said that he proposed to her but that her brother disapproved since Edgar could not support himself, let alone a wife. Edgar was apparently jealous and the two often quarreled. One time Edgar visited Mary late at night, under the influence of alcohol, they started to quarrel; Mary ran home and her mother had to stop the furious Edgar from catching her. After that he was not allowed to visit her anymore.
According to a Maryland journalist named Lambert Wilmer, who also had published a play based on Edgar's broken off engagement with Elmira Royster, Edgar was very occupied with his writing during this period of his life, and he had now turned to fiction, probably hoping to make some more money than he did on poetry. His first published tale appeared in the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post on August 13, 1831 and was entitled "The Dream".
In the narrator's dream he walks around in a seemingly dead environment when he sees a distant opening in the sky from where comes the person he had helped to slay. With a colorful language Edgar describes the hideous charachter approaching before the narrator awakes. The story embodies much of Edgar's past and might have been inspired from Henry's death. A statement where "nature mourned, for its parent had died" could suggest a connection between Edgar's feelings about Henry's and their mother, Eliza's, death.
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Whether Edgar wrote the story or not is not certain, it was published with the signature "P" but the circumstances around the publishings and the charachter of the story suggests that he did. Henry had published his work in the magazine earlier and this story was published shortly after Henry's death.
In the spring of 1831 the Saturday Courier, also in Philadelphia, announced a contest offering for "the best American dram". Edgar did not win but the judges liked his work. On January 14, 1832, they published his first acknowledged tale - "Metzengerstein". This story was a dreamlike, supernatural tale with strong autobiographical overtones. Fifteen-year-old Baron Frederick Metzengerstein had, like Edgar, been orphaned early in life and after that he "stood without a living relative". The palace in the tale also recalls Moldavia.
Later in 1832, Edgar published four comic tales in the Philadelphia Courier, "Duke de L'Omelette", "A Tale of Jerusalem", "A Decided Loss" and "The Bargain Lost". Even if they were comic, all the tales bring up the subject of surviving death. The Duke de L'Omelette is brought to Baal-Zebub to play cards with the devil. "A Decided Loss" shows of all the ways you can die without dying. The narrator lost his breath, got his skull crushed, was hanged, had his ears cut off by a coroner, gets cut up, still alive although killed again and again. Edgar's language in these tales is full of detailed, shocking violence, tendencies he had shown of as early as in the letters he wrote from the University to John Allan.
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Edgar Allan Poe as a mentioned a while ago had a serious drinking problem which affected his behavior in public. He was a heavy drinker and he has used this character in his short story “The Black cat”. In this story the narrator did not only drink but also had an insanity problem.
Poe writes “The tell-tale heart”from the perspective of the murderer of the old man. When an author creates a situation where the protagonist tells a personal account, the overall impact of the story is heightened. The narrator, in this particular story, adds to the overall effect of horror by continually stressing to the reader that he or she is not mad, and tries to convince us of that fact by how carefully this brutal crime was planned and execute Poe's story is a case of domestic violence that occurs as the result of an irrational fear. To the narrator that fear is represented by the old man's eye. Through the narrator, Poe describes this eye as being pale blue with a film over it, and resembling that of a vulture. Does the narrator have any reason to fear the old man or his eye? What is that that evokes the dark side, and eventually drives the narrator to madness? Or could Poe be referring to a belief whose origins could be traced back to Greece and Rome? It is all because of Poe’s life and how he feels about life. Poe used his stories to express how he felt about people and issues.
In conclusion Edgar Allan Poe’s life was full of pain and feeling of loss loneliness, hopelessness and seperation. Most of these have been proven in most of his stories and poems. It has been shown in his short stories “The black cat”, “Ligeria”, and “The Tell-Tale heart”. From all these stories he used his characters to express his real life experience. Poe’s character’s show how Poe felt about love passion and life in general. This shows us how Poe felt about his life. As this is Poe life has influenced a lot of people and have made people think about the saying “Life is good, please enjoy it while it lasts.
WORK CITED LIST
(1)The fall of the house of Usher.Ed. Eric W. Carlson. Columbus,Ohio:Merrill,1971.ps2614.A1
(2)The complete poems and stories of Edgar Allan Poe, with selections from his critical writings 2 vols.Ed. ericw carlson. columbus,Ohio:merrill,1978.ps2601.Q5
(3)Collected poems and works from Edgar Allan Poe's with selected from his critical writings 2 vols. Ed. Arthur Hodson Quinn.New York: Alfred A Knop.1969 psoo6.F67
(4)Burton's gentleman's magazine and American monthly review (later title illustratioed magazne)Pli:G.R. Graham, 1840-1856 v19.
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