horror and suspense in poe's short stories and movies
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Horror and Suspense in Poe’s stories and movies
Name : Gausvami Surbhi A.
SEM : 3
Paper no : 11, American Literature
Submitted to: Dr. Dilip Barad,
Department of English,
MKBU university.
Roll No: 23
Enrollment No: 2069108420170008
Email id: [email protected]
Batch-year: 2016-18
Edgar Allan Poe
• Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.
• January 19, 1809 –October 7, 1849
• “Father of Short stories”
• considered part of the Romantic Movement
Poe’s short stories
Horror and Suspense in poe’s short stories
The Tell-Tale Heart
Horror
• Midnight
• Lightness and Darkness
• “Vulture Eyes”
• Mad Narrator
• Sound of Door
• Beating Heart
Suspense
• Irrational Behavior
• Vision for Murder
• Living together
• Relation between narrator and Old man
• Police investigation
• Narrator’s dilemma
The Fall of the House of Usher
Horror
• Darkness at the beginning
• Usher House
• The Storm
• Wall with hanging shield
• Barking of Dog
• Madeline wearing white clothes
• Entombing of Madeline
• The falling of House
Suspense
• Strange behavior of Roderick Usher
• Mysteries House
• Madeline’s death
• Narrator’s unawareness about his friend’s sister
The Black Cat
Horror
• Black Cat Pluto
• Psychological aspects
• Perversity of narrator
• Fantastic elements of cat
• Violence
• Murder
• Screeching of cat
Suspense
• Foreshadowing
• Unreliable Narrator
• Reason of his death
• Animal abuser
• Second cat
Horror and Suspense in Movies
Setting
• Haunted House
• Forest
• Graveyard
• Isolated buildings
• Basements
Atmosphere
• Dark night
• Loneliness
• Uneasy Atmosphere
• Unidentified Areas
Sound
• Create certain atmosphere
• Powerful impact
• Highlights
• Movements of characters
• Breathtaking
• Creaky Doors
• Eerie Music and whispering
• Sound of Animals
Lighting and Colour
• Dark lighting
• Low lighting
• Black
• White
• Gray
• Red
Fear
• Ghost
• Witch
• Fear of unknown
• Fear of loneliness
Mystery
• Crime Mystery
• Psychological Suspense
• Suspense
• Puzzle
• Secret
Themes
• Supernatural• Alien• Murder• Psychological• Suicide• Childhood problem• Nightmares• Demons• Good v/s Evil