The Fall Of The House Of Amontillado, And Alone

Edgar Allan Poe is a writer of many famous poems and stories. These writings, for example, “The Masque of the Red Death”, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Cask of Amontillado”, and “Alone” are influenced by the events in Poe’s life and include many similarities with each other. These similarities include isolation, involvement of a sickness, a feeling of fear, and the death of a character. The stories share these qualities because of important events that happened throughout Poe’s life. Poe’s mother died when he was 2 years old, and his wife died in 1847. He had no friends, no job, and very little money most of his life. These events showed that Poe was isolated in his life, like how the characters are in his stories. Poe’s wife dying was a traumatic and stressful experience for him.
This setting that is developed is in a secluded place from the rest of the outside world in each story. For example in, “The Masque of the Red Death”, Prince Prospero and his friends, “retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys.” In “The Fall of the House of Usher”, the narrator goes, “through a singularly dreary tract of country” to visit Roderick Usher at his home. Also, in “The Cask of Amontillado”, Montresor takes Fortunato to his underground vaults, “upon the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors.” As well as these three writings, the poem “Alone” shares a similar setting. This poem shows seclusion through the statement of, “And all I lov’d -- I lov’d alone --“. Also the poem states a setting through the lines, “In its autumn tine of gold” and “From the thunder, and the storm --“ which shows the season and weather taking place. This connects to “The Fall of the House of Usher” because they both take place in autumn and include the presence of a storm in their writings. These stories connect through this setting style and show how Poe keeps a similar setting through these