The gaps between the worker class and owner/wealthy upper class in the novels and movie that we watched is getting interesting. Technology may be a factor but what’s standing is the gaps, at first Granville, and Shelly their was just an upper class doing what it wanted with science or telling the future. But now […]
After talking to Lizzie and Rob, I realized that my copy of The Time Machine had one extra chapter, and that my Chapter 12 was different from theirs. My Chapter 13 more matched their Chapter 12–with a few obvious revisions. It seems that someone (perhaps a modest time traveler?) had gone back and removed this […]
Poe likes to play around with the idea of death and disease, probably because of what happened to his wife. This idea of disease and what it can do to the body, Poe goes into great detail to tell like the The facts of the case of M. Valdimer. How Valdimer is gasping for air […]
Where do we go when we die? Who knows. There is a fear that at the end of the road, when the lights dim and you feel the cold loneliness of your last breathes escaping you, that there will be nothing for you to perceive once your heart stops pumping blood to your brain and […]
In the stories we’ve read so far, and in Begum’s Millions, I haven’t found a redeemable female character. If we start out with The Last Man and take a look at Eve, we find her, as in the Bible, as the temptress, wicked, evil, vile seductress, the cause of Adam’s fall and task […]
As a student that only read Edgar Allen Poe in high school, I always associated him with his dark style. I read The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart, providing me with the assumption that all his works were written in this form. After reading these various stories over the past week, it is now seen […]
Out of all the stories we read by Poe I enjoyed The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar and Mesmeric Revelation the best. If you look back at all of human history death has always been a question for people. Humans as a species have a hard time letting go, an even harder time […]
The magical time: when you’re young, deep in dreams and imagination, when Santa brings presents and a fairy steals your teeth. It comes, it goes… And sometimes it returns. When it does return–that childhood imagination–it’s often met by the speculation of an educated mind. There’s now science to explain away the dreams. This is what […]
In discussing “The Fall of the House of Usher,” during class, I wasn’t too surprised by the response of dread pertaining to one of Poe’s most frightening tales. Indeed, my hand was one of the first to shoot up when inquired of its sheer creepiness. While I am not necessarily a devoted fan of the […]
I’ll start out by noting that I am no expert. I have not read much science fiction or ghost stories, but I know a love story when I see it. Even though Edgar Allan Poe is Edgar Allan Poe, I still despise the story “Ligeia”. This tale was a disappointment because I expected a thrilling […]
Reading Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher”, there only one reason that everything seems to be dead when the narrator (lets call him Rod Sterling) goes to his friends house, he had entered the Twilight Zone. Where Rod entered was describing the circumstances and the history behind him and his relationship to Roderick Usher, […]
When reading “The Fall of the House of Usher” just reading the top layer of words, one would assume that there is nothing funny (at least at the beginning of the story) about Lady Madeline. This must have been my fifth or sixth time reading through this story, and the thought of Lady Madeline being […]
I’m not enjoying the Sci Fi in this class, thus far, as much as the Sci Fi of last semesters Contemporary: 1950s to the Present. I’ve thought this a few times already and wonder why. My first hunch after reading Mellonta Tauta today—not previously thinking much on it before—is that the authors writing these […]
The epigraphy in Poe’s The Purloined Letter, “Nil sapientiæ odiosius acumine nimio,” (or “Nothing is more detested by wisdom than too much cunning”) (362). I was not in class on Tuesday so therefore I was not in for the discussion of how closely related Dupin and Sherlock Holmes stories are. But when I first read […]
After reading Legeia and Fall in the House of Usher, I was struck by something odd between the two stories. Fall of the House of Usher was one of the most terrifying things I’ve read in a very long time. It established an atmosphere of potential death and ‘what’s-behind-my-back’ that shall haunt my dreams for weeks to come. Legeia, […]
During the discussion of “Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “Purloined Letter”, by Edgar Allan Poe, I could not help thinking of one of my favorite characters, Aloysius Pendergast. Aloysius Pendergast was created by the writing team of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child and is currently a best selling book series. Pendergast, a FBI Special […]
What makes Poe such a good writer is the imagery he uses in his stories. He is skilled in this area and it really draws the readers attention to detail. Both Ligeia and The Fall of the House of Usher, have spectacular imagery that holds attention and keeps us reading. These stories by Poe are […]
In Poe’s The Fall Of The House Of Usher, we see a story told through the narrator’s eyes. Our narrator receives a letter from an old frend (Usher) telling him of Usher’s illness. This letter as our narrator admits reached him in a “distant part of the country” (91), and it took our narrator a “sorjourn […]
In class, someone brought up a comparison between the stories of Poe that we’ve been reading and Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Amnesia is a game that I enjoy a lot and I believe that when comparing a newer contribution to the horror genre alongside something that really helped give birth to it, a lot of similarities are […]
In two of the Poe stories we read this week The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Purloined Letter we read about Dupin solving mysteries the authorities are unable to solve themselves. I couldn’t help but see similarities between the character Dupin and Sherlock Holmes. Dupin like Holmes is a deeply intellectual and observant […]
Sometimes when you are reading a selection, you notice something so little that it is really nothing. While others may not give it a second look, it stands out as really puzzling to you. I must say that I had that experience while reading the two detective stories from Edgar Allen Poe. The very first […]