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1. Topic: Gothic Elements in Poe's
Short Stories
● Name : Pandya Dharmishtha D.
● Paper No. : 10 (The American Literature)
● Class : M.A Sem- 3
● Banch : 2015-17
● Roll No.: 22
● Email Id: pandyadharmishtha510@gmail.com
● Submitted by : Smt. S. B. Gardi
Department of English
M.K. Bhavnagar University

2. ● Introduction of Edgar Allan Poe
● Edgar Allan Poe was an American
writer, editor and literary critic.
● Poe's professional life was full of
failure.
● He saw himself as a poet, but could
not make aliving from writing poetry.
● Poe can be considered the father of
the modern horror story, influecing
writers such as Stephen King and
Anne Rice.

3. ● Work of E.A.Poe
● The Tell-Tale Heart (1943)
● The Black Cat (1843)
● The Gold Bug
● The Fall Of House of Usher
(1839)
● The Cask of Amontillado
(1846)

4. ● What is the meaning of Gothic in
literature?
● Gothic elements work together to create a setting showing a
fallen world, one where traditional elements, such as a castle
that would, evoke thoughts of power and success, are used
to demonstrate the opposite and appear in a form of decasy
or ruin.
● An unlikely hero
● A sinister villain and isolation

5. ➔ Characteristics of Gothic Fiction
 Horror
 The supernatural
 Death
 Madness
 Hereditary curses
 Medieval-like settings
 violence

6. Gothic Element in 'The Fall Of House of
Usher '
● These stories represent the highest
achievements in the literary genre
of the gothic horror story.
● It is masterpiece of American
Gothic Fiction.
● Gothic Fiction : Dark, strange and
melodramatic stories which lead to
something evil.
● Narrator, Roderick Usher,
Madeline represents gothic
elements.

7. ● Parallel between experience of narrator and reader.
● Scene of the scandal
● One lady (Madeline) wear white clothes.
● Painting- tears of blood in Madeline's eyes
● Darkness, storms and lighting
● House: horror and terror feeling

8.  Gothic Element in 'The Tell-Tale Heart'
●
● It is the story of the Old
man's eye
● Insane narrator hatred old
man's eye
● Eye- vulture, pale blue
eye
● Death, decasy and
gloominess
● He presents darkness in
the literal darkness that
the protagonist devises
and works his evil plan
in.

9.  Decasy :
● Comperarison of old man's failing body and house
● House- manifestations of inanimate objects
● Image of decasy : the description of the film-
covered eye
● Death : Murder of the Old man
● Sanity of narrator

10.  Gothic Element in 'The Cask of
Amontillado'
● Supernatural occurrence or
agent in the story
● Fortuna to doesn't know, this
but he is descending a
stairway to hall rather than to
simple a rare wine.
● Perfect gothic setting for a
tale in which nothing goods is
going to occur.
● Mystery and suspense
pervades the story.

11.  Another example of gothic literature