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Poe Decoder

Poe Decoder

An Analysis of Adgar Allan Poe's
Psychological Thriller










Outline

I. Prelude
II. Brief introduction to Adgar Allan Poe
1. 1. Allan Poe's Life
2. 2. Allan Poe's Works and Literary Achievement
III. Adgar Allan Poe -- A Post-Gothic Writer
1. 1. Gothic Introduction
2. 2. Analysis of Two Horror
1) 1) The Fall of the House of Usher
a) a) Setting
b) b) Characters
c) c) Point of View
2) 2) The Masque of the Red Death
a) a) Setting
b) b) Characters
c) c) Point of View
IV. The Symbolism in Allan Poe's Works
1. Symbolism Introduction
2. Analysis of two horrors
1) 1) The Fall of the House of Usher
a) a) Style and Interpretation
b) b) Theme
2) 2) The Masque of the Red Death
a) a) Style and Interpretation
b) b) Theme
V. Finale












I. Prelude
"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was --but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit."
-- The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
Within the lines of the opening of The Fall Of The House Of Usher, as a result of Poe's imagery, we are aware of a sense of death and decay. Gothic is the ambience.

II. Brief Introduction to Adgar Allan Poe
1. Allan Poe's Life
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in January 1809, the second son of traveling actors. Edgar, split up from his elder bother and younger sister, was taken into the household of a Virginian tobacco merchant, John Allan, whose name Poe adopted from 1824 onwards. Poe's...