When comparing the crimes committed in Browning and Poes works, I found three similar characteristics. Both authors wrote about killing because the victim insulted them. Montresor and the Duke hid the victims in a way that only selected individuals would know about their murders; therefore, they committed the perfect murder. .
The Duke of Ferrara gave the commands to have his wife killed because she looked at other men and blushed; to the Duke this was an insult. In "The Cast of Amontillado" Montresor vowed revenge upon Fortunato because he insulted him. The writing doesn't tell what the insult was; it only tells that Montresor would stop at nothing to kill Fortunato. .
The Duke kept the picture of his first wife behind a curtain. Only the Duke drew it when he wanted to tell the story of killing his wife. When Montresor killed Fortunato he blocked him up in a catacomb where no one could find him. In doing this, the characters of these stories can choose whom they want to tell their murder stories too.
The Duke of Ferrara didn't kill his wife but he did give the command. The Duke gets away with murder because he is royalty. Montresor gets away with murder because he planned out the plot and for fifty years no one suspected anything. .
These are just three examples of how two writing from Edger Allen Poe and Robert Browning are alike. Many other similarities may be found in the writing. The examples I like were how both the Duke and Montresor killed because of insult and both men carried out the crimes well enough not to get caught.
Young Goodman Brown vs. ... In the story "Young Goodman Brown," Nathaniel Hawthorne shows his main character, the innocent, pure, and love stricken Young Goodman Brown. ... Goodman Brown's community was very small, and everyone knew everyone. ... Brown sees his mother, father, and his wife Faith. ... Poe uses a lot of situational irony throughout this story. ...
Heidegger"s Experiment", and "Young Goodman Brown". ... Poe uses evil when he names his cat "Pluto", because Hades had a cat named Pluto. This represents evilness towards his cat because Poe is not using this name in a good sense but instead in a bad sense. ... Evil is portrayed when Poe decides to stuff his dead wife behind the wall. ... Heidegger's Experiment", and in "Young Goodman Brown". ...
After moving to London, Browning began publishing her own writings. ... The second volume was also published in the United States and included an introduction by Edgar Allan Poe. ... Elizabeth Barrett Browning died on June 29, 1861 in Florence. ... Browning's main theme of poetry was love plots. ... In "Sonnets from the Portuguese- Browning declares her strong emotions of love toward Robert Browning. ...
Brown was the youngest of four sons. ... Being physically weak Brown was very strong in his studies. ... Basically all Brown did as a child was read and he was very smart. ... But Brown had other interests. ... Brown influence writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, and Henry James. ...
Quite possibly a literary genius by the name of Edgar Allan Poe. ... Born in 1809 to parents, Eliza Poe and David Poe Jr., he was orphaned before the age of three. ... Poe was sent live with foster parents, John and Fanny Allan. ... Poe is too fond of the wild -- unnatural and horrible! ... (Society, Internet) Elizabeth Barrett once wrote the following in a letter to Poe Browning, to whom Poe had dedicated a book: "Your 'Raven' has produced a sensation, a 'fit horror,' here in England. ...
Between 1800 and 1860, Romanticism's concepts were well shown through the works of authors and poets such as Hawthorne, Poe, and Longfellow. ... Because the poem set on a beach, Longfellow describes the setting as "...sea-sands damp and brown..." and "...the little waves, with their soft, white hands." ...
According to Rita Brown in Novels for Students Vol. 43, Melville was brought up, in the Dutch Calvinist Church, which taught that God predestined every detail of everything that will happen on earth, making it a puzzle why God would allow evil things to happen as well as good things (151). ... Melville was pessimistic about the world like his other romantic writer peers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe. ... But the writer of Moby Dick, Herman Melville, fellow author Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe took just the opposite view, that nature was hostile and harmful to human ...
Knowing me is like reading a dark, twisted story written by Edgar Allen Poe, which symbolizes the whole story of my emotional, downward spiraling, existence. ... The long, straight brown hair shows my calm nature that usually shows around others. ...
A marked out in line of dull red light."52 Many other people of the town see it as well, but each interprets it to his own liking, never once suggesting that it may just simply be a meteor.53 With the Age of Reason on the horizon in the late 18th century-early nineteenth century, "the area of the unknown [is] steadily contracting,"54 but "it has always existed, and it will always exist."55 America's first professional writer, Charles Brockden Brown, has a deep attraction...
