Similarities Between Black Cat And The Cask Of Amontillado

Two Historical Talents Film making and writing are two very important jobs in the entertainment of people. The best film makers and authors can manipulate the audience into a certain feeling or emotion. Two great creators in the film and writing industry, Edgar Allen Poe and Alfred Hitchcock, manipulate their audience into feeling suspense and horror in their works. Both Poe and Hitchcock manipulate the audience to feel suspense using mood. Poe uses mood when talking about his wife before he kills her in "Black Cat." Poe uses very vulgar vocabulary to create a sense of suspense to the reader in his short story. "Goaded by the interference into a rage more than demoniacal, I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain" (Poe 11). Poe uses vulgar language and strong diction to create a suspense for the reader because the reader didn't know what was going to happen in the very beginning of the quote. Only later in the quote does the reader find out he killed his wife. In Hitchcock's movies, the audience interprets mood in a different way. Hitchcock uses lighting to create mood in his movies. For example, in Rear Window the lighting goes completely dark in Jeffries' apartment, and the only lighting the

Poe uses Juxtaposition in the "The Cask of Amontillado" to show the readers the horror of the situation. In "The Cask of Amontillado", Wine is mentioned with the bones of dead bodies. The wine and rotten bones being juxtaposed show the reader that the narrator is caught between wine, which represents life, and death. At this point, the narrator is moving toward death, creating horror for the reader. Hitchcock uses Juxtaposition to create horror in the movie Rear Window by having Mrs. Thorwald's dead body allegedly buried in a flower garden. The combination of flowers and a dead body exaggerates the situation and makes it look like an inhuman quality even for a