Poe On Setting
Edgar Allan Poe creatively uses setting in "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Fall of the House of Usher". The narrators in "Cask" and "Usher" describe settings that produce a dark and gloomy vision in our minds. Poe's use of setting also seems to enhance the morbidity of Montresor in "Cask", and Roderick Usher in "Usher". The vivid use of setting in "Cask" and "Usher" create a sense of horror that compliments the outcomes in both stories.In " Usher " Poe's use of setting gives us images of a deteriorating existence of the Usher mansion and the two remaining Ushers, Roderick and Madeline. The imagery Poe uses describes the Ushers and their home disintegrating from within, and as the mansion collapses physically, the Ushers are suffering a similar fate mentally. The narrator's description of the Usher mansion is not one of where a prominent family would reside, but more of a seen from the 1960's sitcom " The Munsters ". While describing his feeling upon arriving at the Usher home the narrator expresses the emotions that filled him from his first glimpse of the decaying structu
prisoner on deathwatch, awaiting his fate. "Upon the bleak walls-upon the vacant eye like windows-upon a few rank sedges-and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees" (paragraph 1) is the vision the narrator sets up for us as the story begins. In "Cask" the setting starts at a carnival in Italy where Montresor meets his hapless, drunk, gaily dressed friend Fortunato, who is enjoying the ongoing festivities. Montresor convinces Fortunato through flattering him on his knowledge of wine and expressing doubts about a recent purchase of Amontillado, " I have received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado, and I have my doubts" (paragraph 5). Montresor goes on with boosting his clueless friends ego by saying, " I was silly enough to pay full Amontillado price without consulting you in the matter" (paragraph 7). Fortunato being unaware of any malicious intent from Montresor joins him to sample the Amontillado at Motresor's palace. When the narrator first sees his childhood friend Roderick Usher, he feels the greeting presented to him is somewhat overdone. He quickly overcame his perception of Rode
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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