https://padlet.com/noshea/tq6uc27rc6lh The gothic world of Edgar Allen Poe en-us 2016-09-13 02:25:35 UTC 2025-10-01 08:15:32 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png noshea https://padlet.com/noshea/tq6uc27rc6lh/wish/123327392 1. Read the story and post a comment about it. 
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The narrators conviction that he is not mad is a key idea, demonstrating to the reader that no-one truly knows about their own insanity. His manic laughs and his murderous actions present the consequences of a deranged mind.
"he had been trying to comfort himself with all these suppositions; but he had found all in vain."

Masque of the Red Death
The story certainly invites terror, especially considering Poe wrote during a time when infectious diseases took many lives, including his wife. The personification of the "Red Death" also ensures that the frightening nature of the illness is not overlooked as a simple death, it must show the true horror of disease.
"...the figure in question had out-Heroded Herod"

The Fall of the House of Usher
An incredibly ambiguous story, leaving the reader confused as to the Narrator's motivation for appearing at the house, what actually ails Roderick, and what sudden event will befall the narrator and Roderick. Poe spends a lot of time discussing the house itself, and the incestuous origins of the Usher name, forcing a sense of fear and confusion at the entire proceedings. 
"I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR." ]]> 2016-09-26 03:15:17 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/tq6uc27rc6lh/wish/126257607