Edgar Allan Poe’s work portrayed much spook. Throughout a certain piece, Masque of the Red Death, fear was brought through a theme of ignorance. He develops this through the thought that with prosperity and wealth, death and time can be escaped. “...But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court…” Prospero is the largest doer of the theme of ignorance.
Nothing to Fear, but Fear Itself Fear can destroy people. Many are driven crazy by fear and are pushed to the brinks of insanity. Those who are put in situations of panic, where even a character’s surroundings are instigating fear, can find themselves in compromising positions. Edgar Allan Poe’s stories “The Black Cat” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” are two prime examples of stories where fear moves the plot along, as it transforms its characters. Poe explores the darkest depths of the human mind and exploits his characters’ fear of themselves, and while these accounts have ready supplies of fear, they convey these apprehensions in different ways.
So many times I have tried to leave this world. The same feeling comes back, it makes me realize that I don't want this. This dreadful feeling is hard to fathom. Day by day it gets worse. I am trying to understand it.
All these and security were within. Without was the “Red Death.” What a wonderful ball the prince was hosting-or could it just have been a distraction from the fact that death would soon befall everyone? All the revelers were in their own little world at the party, but every time the ebony clock from the seventh room rang, it was like a check into reality. Everyone quieted and became nervous, realizing that death is approaching. The castle was secure and safe from the outside world but without a sanctuary, you would most likely contract the Red Death and die soon.
Many people were taken in by this nineteenth-century writer’s harsh outlook on life in his work. One is capable of only imagining the things that Edgar Allan Poe has, throughout his deeply saddening and depressing time here on earth, brought to life in his writing by simply printing in words different sections and scenarios of his ambiguous life. Edgar A. Poe lived a very somber orphan life which later became the foundation to the origin of his gothic nature and writing. Poe is recognized as a genius who reinvented the gothic tale of mystery and horror for his time (Introduction 1). Poe placed the reader inside the tortured minds and lives of people confronting the supernatural.
There are many similarities and differences between Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King. Human beings have a tendency to have a morbid desire to explore the darker realms of life. As sensitive beings we make every effort to deny our curiosity in the things that frighten us, and will calmly reassure our children that there aren't any creatures under their beds each night, but deep down we secretly thrive on that cool rush of fear. This is why we slow down to look at car accidents, fires and find excitement in the macabre. We turn off the lights when watching scary movies, and when it’s time to go to bed, we secretly make sure the closet doors are shut.
The horror genre defies boundaries, invading on what people think are taboo themes. The taboos could be about death, sex, violence, or crime, carrying fourth the current audience of teenagers and adults. As the audience empathizes with the traumatized victims, they feel the fear, and endure experiences unavailable outside the cinema. The central code and convention of the horror genre, the isolation location, in which the victim finds help out of reach, rubs against on the audiences phobic 'pressure point.' According to horror novelist, Stephen King, phobic Pressure points are the fears the audiences share of keynote things, like the dark, spiders, and isolation.
Apparently, he was confused and falsely thought "they were making a mockery of his horror" (Poe 46) which irritated him intensively. Consequently, he told all the truth and "admitted the deed" in order to get rid of the growing noise his conscience kept torturing him with. Therefore, the above two pieces of evidence both reveal the truth that the narrator is absolutely insane in contrary to what the narrator tried to tell us. Besides the ending of story, we can also figure out
/ And oftentimes, to win us to out harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths,/ Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s/ In deepest consequence” (I.iii.121). Macbeth ignores Banquo’s idea, and instead further investigates the concept that he may one day be King. He considers whether the crown will fall into his hands, or if he will have to complete a dark deep in order to obtain it. The witches successfully plant the destructive idea into Macbeth’s head. Macbeth has a huge character flaw.
Words such as 'secret', 'poison', and 'awful' are used in conjunction to describe Chup. The negative connotations in these words indicate that all things related to Chup are somehow insidious in nature. Therefore, by stating that Chup is a "place of shadows", 'shadows' become just as insidious as Chup. As Haroun approaches the Twilight Strip, Butt notices that Haroun was suffering from "a Heart-Shadow (121)", the symptoms of which are manifested in Haroun's thoughts: 'With our absurd armada,' he despaired, 'how can we ever succeed in that world…. The closer they came…the more formidable the prospect of the Chupwala Army became.