Macabre Short-Stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Roald Dahl

Edgar Allan Poe is the father of horror stories. In his three short stories, Ligiea, the Fall of the house of Usher, The Black Cat, he portrays the image of horror in the form of being buried alive or premature burial, Mental Disorder or Madness or Mentally Ill, and Supernatural. Being buried alive can be seen in The Black Cat as well as in the Fall of the house of Usher. Mentally Ill can be found in the Black Cat and in the Fall of the house of Usher. Meanwhile Supernatural image of horror is reflected in Ligiea and in The Black Cat. Being buried alive is illustrated in the way when The Narrator of the Fall of the House help Roderick Usher entombed his twin sister, while in the Black Cat the Narrator buried his wife in the wall to conceal from the police investigation. Mental Illnesses can be seen in the Black Cat when the Narrator suffers from alcoholic addicted. Roderick Usher the character of The Fall of the house of Usher suffers from not only does he live in fear, but also to have lost all interest in every kind of social contact. Supernatural is portrayed in Ligeia, when the narrator’s wife, Ligiea, dead, she transforms into Lady Rowena, the new wife of the Narrator.

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Book as an object: conceptual illustrations in Edgar Allan Poe’s books and a sample study

Global Journal on Humanities and Social Sciences ◽

10.18844/gjhss.v0i0.312 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Begüm Eken

Keyword(s):

Short Stories ◽

Edgar Allan Poe ◽

Information Age ◽

Digital Age ◽

Main Question ◽

Book Design ◽

Reading Experience ◽

Printed Books ◽

Main Components ◽

Selection Of

Today, when the future of the book is discussed, the main question is whether it has one. Information age transformed ongoing traditional features of a book. It has been foreseen by the critics that printed books, libraries and book stores are doomed to lose their values on the ground of developing technologies. As James O’Donnel cited from Pulitzer winner author E. Annie Proulx in his paper, “Nobody is going to sit down and read a novel on a twitchy little screen. Ever." (Nunberg, 1996). Although printed books are less popular in this digital age, there are still readers and book lovers who always get fascinated by the feeling of flipping pages of a book. According to a research done with readers, they would prefer to have a reading experience with a printed book rather than a screen especially if it is a classic literature book. Two of the main components of verbal and visual dimensions of imagination are illustration and literature. Aim of this paper is to try and find a way to maintain the tradition of a printed book and to explore the relation between these principals in one medium through narrative illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe literature. Also the purpose of this paper is finding the similarities of the two disciplines, as both reveal ideas in unexpected and innovative ways in one’s mind. A selection of his short stories and poems will be illustrated and designed to engage the two areas, literature and illustration to reach readers in a more different way than usual in order to communicate with them more effectively.Keywords: Edgar Allan Poe, book as an object, illustrations, conceptual narrations, book design

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Conflict Analysis of the Main Characters in Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

PIONEER: Journal of Language and Literature ◽

10.36841/pioneer.v10i1.183 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Maryana Bulu

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Short Stories ◽

Edgar Allan Poe ◽

Conflict Analysis ◽

Internal Conflict ◽

Main Character ◽

Data Display ◽

Internal Conflicts ◽

Data Source ◽

And Behavior

This qualitative research aims to (1) describe the types of conflicts of the main characters in short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, (2) describe the effects of conflicts of the main characters in short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. The researcher used theory by Nurgiyantoro (2002). There are two types of conflicts, internal conflict and external conflict. He divides the external conflict into social conflict and physical conflict. The data source were short stories by Edgar Allan Poe they were: (1) The Tell-Tale Heart (2017), (2) The Black Cat (2017), and (3) The Hop Frog (1849). The data in this study were in the form of main character’s dialogues or utterances, and behavior in the three short stories. Techniques of data analysis done were data reduction, data display, and data conclusion drawing and verification by Miles and Huberman’s theory (1984). The researcher found sixteen data from three short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, there were four data from The Tell-Tale Heart, ten data from The Black Cat, and two data from The Hop Frog, and the details are : Six data of internal conflicts, five data of social conflicts, and five data of physical conflicts. Then, the details of the results on the affects experienced by the main characters are : One datum of positive affect (enjoyment or joy, interest or excitement, and surprise or startle), and fifteen data of negative affect (anger or range, disgust, dissmell, distress or anguish, fear or terror, and shame or humiliation). The researcher expects the next researchers to study concept of conflict analysis or main character in different subjects.

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INTRINSIC ANALYSIS OF THE SHORT STORIES BY EDGAR ALLAN POE

LINGUA Journal of Language Literature and Teaching ◽

10.30957/lingua.v11i1.12 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Wuwuh Yunhadi

Keyword(s):

Short Stories ◽

Mental Disorder ◽

Edgar Allan Poe ◽

Primary Source ◽

Secondary Source ◽

Basic Principles ◽

Biographical Note ◽

The Subject ◽

Single Effect ◽

Close Friendship

This study used qualitative design. The subject of the analysis is the thematic aspect of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories. The main characteristic of Poe's short stories is the existence of what is so called a single emotional effect: all incidents in the story, the words and details that create the incident, must point toward this single, effect. Poe is known as the possessor of one most original imagination (Cline, 1969). Eight Poe's short stories were selected as subjects. The primary source of data is the eight short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. The secondary source of data is criticism, Poe's biographical note, ideas, theories, basic principles, opinions. The subject matters of Edgar Allan Poe's selected short stories. The themes of the short stories are (1) madness brings harm, (2) drinking too much alcohol cause catastrophic, (3) revenge exist even in a close friendship, (4) people are helpless when confronted to God's power, (5) love gets rid of the memory, (6) true friend will always be at our side, (7) God shows power through miracle and disaster; and (8) mental disorder can be hereditary features.

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Grotesque, Shadow and Individuation: A Jungian Reading of Selected Short Stories by Tunku Halim and Edgar Allan Poe

Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities ◽

10.47836/pjssh.29.2.08 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Moussa Pourya Asl ◽

Atikah Rushda Ramli

Keyword(s):

Short Stories ◽

Comparative Analysis ◽

Edgar Allan Poe ◽

Fictional Characters ◽

Human Consciousness ◽

Minimal Level ◽

Horror Genre ◽

Structural Forces ◽

Narrative Patterns ◽

Style Of Writing

In examining Malaysian literature in light of the global canon, one cannot miss the numerous parallelisms between literary works by Tunku Halim bin Tunku Abdullah and Edgar Allan Poe. Both writers are preoccupied with grotesque realities of mentally deranged individuals, and similarly visualize the darkness and animality of human consciousness. This article aims at conducting a comparative analysis of the dynamics of personality and of the psyche of fictional characters in selected short stories by the two writers. To this end, the study draws upon Jung’s notions of the Shadow and the Individuation to explore the key psychological motives behind the characters’ behaviour patterns, as well as to examine their level of subjectivity and agency in harnessing the same motives. Notwithstanding the seemingly different ways of presenting the narrative patterns of the characters’ journey towards Individuation, the selected stories are marked with similar examples of characters’ failures in the process of self-realization. While some characters remain trapped in the obscure and perplexing world of the Shadow, others achieve a minimal level of maturity as they begin to realize their own being. In the case of Halim’s stories, however, the characters are additionally held back by cultural and structural forces that constantly affect their realities. It is concluded that this particular difference accounts for Halim’s uniquely hybrid style of writing that merges Western horror genre with more local folklore.

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Edgar Allan Poe: critical assessments. v.1: Life and works; v.2: Poe in the nineteenth century; v.3: Poe the writer: poems, criticism and short stories; v.4: Poe in the twentieth century

Choice Reviews Online ◽

10.5860/choice.29-6128 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 29 (11) ◽

pp. 29-6128-29-6128

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Short Stories ◽

Edgar Allan Poe

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The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

10.1093/owc/9780199555819.001.0001 ◽

2009 ◽

Author(s):

Washington Irving

Keyword(s):

Short Stories ◽

Nathaniel Hawthorne ◽

Henry James ◽

Edgar Allan Poe ◽

Literary Traditions ◽

American Writer ◽

Modern Reader ◽

Popular Work ◽

Rip Van Winkle ◽

Relationship Of

The Sketch-Book (1820–1) looks simultaneously towards audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, as Irving explores the uneasy relationship of an American writer to English literary traditions. He sketches a series of encounters with the cultural shrines of the parent nation, and in two brilliant experiments with tales transplanted from Europe creates the first classic American short stories, ‘Rip Van Winkle’ and ‘The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow’. The result was not only a hugely successful travel book; it exerted a strong formative influence on American writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe to Henry James, and is well worth rediscovery in its own right today. Based on Irving’s final revision of his most popular work, this new edition includes comprehensive explanatory notes of The Sketch-Book’s sources for the modern reader. In her introduction, Susan Manning suggests that the author forged a new idiom, the ‘Literary Picturesque’, to accommodate and turn to advantage his dilemma of dual literary allegiances.

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