Gothic horror

A detailed Summary of Gothic horror

Edgar Allan Poe was a man with very few things headed in the right

direction in his life. His parent's divorced when he was just three years old and

his new foster parent's did not care for the young, helpless boy at all. These are

just a few of the drastic events that happened in Edgar Allan's life and were the

reason he started to take a negative view on life and the world surrounding

it(Bloom,pg.233) . This negative attitude relayed into his stories and poetry

resulting in some of the truest Gothic tales, characterized by the very dark

imagery and overall dark mood, that have ever been written by any man to

graze the face of the earth(Ingram,pg.22) . In Poe's fiction he handles the

morbid and frightening aspects that he is so closely linked with. This is why he

has had such a great deal of influence on writers and the genre itself will never

be the same again due to the fact that he had such a large impact.

Edgar Allan Poe was drastically drawn to the genre ever since he had

read his first Gothic tale at the age of eighteen. He told everyone he knew that

he would be a writer and as his life proceeded the Gothic genre fit Poe's style to

a tee. It showed a side of literature that he could relate to and

Debussy, said that after reading tales from Poe's collection he was truly

scenery, setting, time, mood, the element of strange, the abnormal and weird

it provided him with the theory behind a Gothic Tale and how to write on such

description of mental states and dark surroundings all relate to him personally at

graze the face of the earth(Ingram,pg.22) . In Poe's fiction he handles the

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Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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