вторник, 18 марта 2014 г.

The writer and the plot


     Edgar Allan Poe is an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic. He is best known for different types of stories. Edgar Allan Poe is generally considered the  inventor of the detective fiction genre. 

     He made a great contribution into such literary genre as science fiction. This writer is considered to be the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone.

        Edgar Allan Poe's contribution in literature is great. His most famous tales are: 

   "The Black Cat"

   "The Fall of the House of Usher"

                                                                                                  "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"

                                                                                                        "The Pit and the Pendulum"

Of course he acted as a poet and his most famous poems are:

   "The Fall of the House of Usher" is a story which tells about an old mansion. Like so many of Poe's stories, the setting here is inside a closed environment and the narrator of the story is unknown.The main characters are Roderick Usher and his twin sister Madeline.

     They both are ill and are going to die. Roderick suffers from hyper-sensitivity to light, sound, taste, and tactile sensations and his sister suffers from a sickness involving seizures. The story is told by a narrator who came to this house to stay for some time with Roderick and Madeline. The narrator tries to entertain Roderick with the help of music, literature and art. But his sister dies first. The narrator helps to burry Madeline in the family vaults, which was underneath the mansion. 

       So, as they both were twins there was some connection between them. A week later while the two friends were reading at night they heard the voice which repeated every word they read. It was Madeline. Roderick was scared to death, because he thought that they burried his sister alive and that she came to take him with her. Of course they both died. The narrator ran outside and saw how the house cracked into two parts and then fell down.






 


5 комментариев:

  1. It's quite interesting that we've managed to develop one and the same biographical facts in different ways. I enjoyed you way of choosing and presenting the material... I'm already engaged in the process of discovering and uncovering new stuff about the author and his works))

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    1. It's really interesing)) We are so different, but our tastes are in some way alike))

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  2. Your blog is very interesting)))I'd love to get aquainted with your work more precisely.
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  3. I really admire the short story of your choice. It's one of my most favourite short stories ever. I am looking forward to your interpretation of characters. "The Fall of the House of Usher" is so much more than just a horror story!

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  4. Your posts are really intriguing. I like the stories of a mystic type. It plays on our imagination) Is there any explanation of what's really going on? Or is it up to the reader to guess what stands behind that voice?

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