Theme Analysis of 3 Stories from Poe

Po's handling of the power difference theme of "Metzengerstein", "The Tell-Tale Heart", and "Hop Frog" is the same as that of his son, just as the character tries to stand up from the shadow of his father's image. Po first points out the weaknesses and strengths of each character and classifies the position of each character. Then Poe developed his son's uprising like a number against his father and eventually did not win because they failed to fill the dead. In addition to Hopfrog, he overcomes and removes the dominant character, King's limitations.

Why does Poe Gothic work? The Gothic novel, written in particular by Edgar Allan Poe, makes it easier to distinguish his work, and more importantly makes many common themes, patterns and structures that make his story suitable for Gothic classification I'm waiting. The Gothic element that penetrates Edgar Allan Poe's work includes the universal theme of death and collapse. This is almost always the main content of Gothic novels, madness theme or presence, crazy or other internal mess, all forms supernatural. A ghost or an eerie place. Most of the story of Edgar Allan Poe, if not all, have the majority of these Gothic qualities.

Edgar Allan Poe's most famous story was published in 1839 after several years of high Gothic movement. But like many of the story of Po, this story is a typical Gothic style in terms of scenes, themes and emotions. Flemish Bottine writes to his brothers like this. "This house is a Gothic expression, a ruin of architecture in a desolate dark landscape and also a rotten family and a rotten family died of unknown difficult incursion.The story is also a rude clause of Roderick Usher's sister's early burial Including an element of phobia, and an incest smell of close relationships between Usher and his sister, but unlike earlier Gothic novels, the plan of "the collapse of the house of Usher" is not a coincidence As Roderick Arthur announced him, he was established steadily and strongly in nearly excessive climax. Filling his sister already, she passed through the door and the whole house collapsed.