The Writing Of Edgar Allan Poe

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In “The Cask of the Amontillado” the reason for murder is revenge. The Critical Survey of Short Fiction states that some of Poe’s stories deal with bewitching female characters (Magill 2103-2109). He titles the stories with the women’s names in order to stress the power of a lady’s influence. In “Ligeia” the narrator is obsessed with the woman; he is even scared by her powers that are beyond human. After she dies, he remarries, but is unhappy. He is unhappy because his new wife does not have dark hair as Ligeia did. In the end he believes Rowena, his new wife to be dead, but she rises. It would not have been so terrifying had she not risen in the form of Ligeia.
Poe’s use of setting molds an atmosphere of horror, in most cases. Although Poe has also written some slapstick stories, he seems to have been set on writing about the mind and psychological happenings. Poe also writes a lot about Gothic ideas. The way he uses setting brings out the qualities of the ...

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