Compare And Contrast Edgar Allan Poe And Byron

Poe and Byron are masterful at using vivid, descriptive language to develop the element of Gothic literature and instill a sense of fear in the reader. In the two pieces of writing the authors used the elements of Gothic literature to pull the fear from the deepest parts of your heart and use first person narration to trap the audience in fear and see inside the minds of both a prisoner and a killer.
Both writers used settings and details to explain just enough to put the reader in Fortunato and the prisoners shoes. The two characters are trapped and within the details of how they feel/ how they look sends a chill through anyone who reads it, effectively making you feel trapped with them. “We could not move a single pace”, the third

line of ‘The Prisoner in Chillon’ tells how confined they were. “A succession of loud and shrill screams, bursting suddenly from the throat of the chained form, seemed to thrust me violently back”, the fact that Fortunato was chained down and sealed in a tight area could make even the strong hearted feel scared and trapped.
Both of those writings and authors have a very detailed way of telling the reader the character is trapped and gives us a tingle down our spines when we read them. They found just the right way to make us fear for these characters.