Edgar Allan Poe

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This paper reviews and discusses 'The Masque of Red Death' and 'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe. According to the paper, there is a sense of foreboding that is almost tactile within theses two works. The paper reports that although the stories differ in content and character, they remain examples of Poe's well crafted ability to make the unbelievable believable as well as fantastic, simultaneously.

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"Alcoholism as well as the power and privilege, considered demonstrative problems within the lifetime of Poe, a time when challenges were issuing forth from every working class struggle and every example of a patient woman who had been drank out of house and home without recourse was in league with evil. Poe writes this work as if a man, given the ultimate power over house and home is given a dangerous gift especially if he is predisposed to drink, as drink can hopelessly and helplessly change a man into a monster, as can unrestrained decadence, seen in the previous story."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Poe, Edgar Allan. Thirty-Two Stories. Ed. Stuart Levine and Susan F. Levine. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2000.

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